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Tuesday, 27 August 2024

For Whom The Sound Rings


Mad Swirl

Editor MH CLAY and team


Triple Split Sequence 

Christina Chin / Uchechukwu Onyedikam 


For Whom The Sound Rings 



regatta race 


a marathon 

before the day 


joining 


     cheerleaders 

     in team colours 


the international champs


fists bumping 

in the air


the drumbeats


     supporters

     at the finish line

          

wind in whorls


forming halo

of coloured cheer


tipping over


     triumphant 

     winners splash 

     the Sarawak River


lights 


above the rowboat 


of the firewood


     in the distant 

     Mount Santubong


camp site


an overnight 

pitch and toss



Direct link:

https://madswirl.com/poetry/2024/08/for-whom-the-sound-rings/



TALES IN THE MOONLIGHT sequence

THE WINGED MOON 

A print journal. 


Art by Leena Hallonen



Response to Leena Hallonen’s image:

Christina Chin 

Uchechukwu Onyedikam (italics) 


June Moon In Evening Glow


ancient festivals 

charted by orbiting

stars


children playing suwe

charmed away by

standing frozen


others crowd 

around with mandoles

and bamboo flutes 


Willie Willie 

at the homestead

village moonlight 



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TALES IN THE MOONLIGHT

Christina Chin/Uchechukwu Onyedikam


the tradition 


burning herbs 

its scents

Ilé-Orí


of getting high on spirits


     long queue 

     in the tattered hut


palm wine tapper


the sap flows

three times

daily


in the treetop


     collecting last night's 

     toddy


Ógógóró


libation 

life’s devotion 

concerns 


stick graphics


     ancestral shaman 

     locked in a trance


on the cave walls


the dig —

learning history

artifacts of our forebear 


running errands


     a ritual 

     traps his soul 


an avenger


goes about 

comes back about 

the rebound 


Èṣù



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The print version direct link:https://amzn.eu/d/hY7cb8O
Cover photo: