POETRY IS EASY, KILL YOUR FEAR & ENJOY

Considering the lukewarm attitude people have towards reading and or writing especially poetry, it's my wish to bring a revived spirit in the reading culture of Cameroonians, 

Africans and the world at large.

This enterprise is an attempt to break the ice with regards to creative literature and most especially Poetry. We must break with the age old mentality that poetry is an esoteric genre for which one needs initiation or induction in order to comprehend its message. Here, I shall be putting up poems of my own creation, written in the most simple language in which poetry has ever been written. This is in an attempt to clear the                                                                                          fear for this subject area. My simple approach to poetry is encouraged by the fact that the genre has evolved over the years from a writing couch in the seductive patterns of metrical rhyme to various forms of content centered writing. This is most especially true with African poetry. Contemporary african poets are more concerned with content rather than form. Unfortunately, some Western scholars may and are still hooked to the early notions of poetry that celebrated musicality rather than message. By trying to make poems rhyme at all cost, poets sometimes inadvertently sacrifice meaning to the detriment of comprehension for their readers. they refuse to acknowledge that their readership is not only based on a handful of scholars and researchers. They seemingly have sacrificed the locals on the altar of esoterism.

                                                                         Poetry is Easy Kill Your Fear

My poems most often capture contemporary Cameroonian realities, those of Africa and the world as a whole. The themes handled range from politics, bad governance, corruption, embezzlement, socio-economic woes of Cameroonians, the plight of Anglophone Cameroonians and issues related to love, African tradition and culture, failed intellectualism and the dwindling hope and faith in modern African politicians and elites. As events unfold on the Cameroon stage be them political, social, economic or cultural, we shall be invited to converge here to make our points of view heard through enriching discussions and arguments, commentaries and intellectual debates.

Take a look at this my Hexa-Verse poem entitled "Signs and Visions", 
NOTICE how SIMPLE the Language is? 

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Signs and Visions

The signs are ominous,

the visions are sinister.

They’re written on the faces

of all and everyone here.

There’s a voice in the dark

that speaks sadly but loudly

of Sodom & Gomorrah.

There is anger in the air &

rage in the eyes of compatriots.

Destruction looms in the horizon,

betrayal breathes pain and fury.

Why and how, did we get here?

Who brought us this far?

The answers are there in the signs,

and the present testifies for itself.

The signs are terrifying,

the visions are calamitous.

Ambanasom’s Dudum is here &

hope is but a farfetched memory.

The visions are jeremiads-

horror and terror lurks among us.

Death gapes and screams resound,

tears flow and flesh quakes.

Tormentors still hang on

like rain beaten rats in August:

what will be will be &

The Word shall be fulfilled.