Charles Chukwuani : Writing

Her Burdens

Her Burdens

A Poem by Charles Chukwuani


She wakes promptly at sunrise, as she has done for a year and twenty, her back aches, not from the buckets of water she will fetch from the stre..
The Desert Oasis

The Desert Oasis

A Poem by Charles Chukwuani


I keep getting lost in this dream, where the desert is all around me,to the eye the streaming sand is infinite, glittering golden brown unde..
Feelings

Feelings

A Poem by Charles Chukwuani


feelingscan never really be let goif you burn them they rise like phoenixif you bury them they become Lazarusif you let them fly away with the windlik..
To his dominant mistress.

To his dominant mistress.

A Poem by Charles Chukwuani


Love is slavery.Her existence demanding,total submission.Cupid's bow, her whipleaving wounds on virgin hearttoo frail to resist.Bold eyes are his gag...
The Air In Hiroshima

The Air In Hiroshima

A Poem by Charles Chukwuani


The air in Hiroshima is exploding,As if it is no longer air,Smoke so thick it seemed graspable,Mushroom sky,Carrying up fading prayers,And final thoug..
The Shrine

The Shrine

A Poem by Charles Chukwuani


Trying my hand at descriptive poetry.
Limbo

Limbo

A Poem by Charles Chukwuani


My feet are still wet from the shower,As I reluctantly head downstairs,She does not even look at me as I walk by,My mother,Too focused is she on her p..
A Trapdoor To Thoughts Below

A Trapdoor To Thoughts Below

A Poem by Charles Chukwuani


It was cloudy outside,The light and playful kind,With enough sunlight to make you want to just keep walking,The ground disappeared beneath my feet,Des..
Crossroads

Crossroads

A Poem by Charles Chukwuani


Perhaps you were strolling through a woods late at night,Or finding your way through a cave with diminishing light,And fate decided to grant you power..
Recollections

Recollections

A Poem by Charles Chukwuani


Great times when remembered always seem to be a blur,Yet painful times recollect in such excruciating detail,So I wonder,What does that say about us a..