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    Thin Walls
    Thin Walls
    Thin Walls
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    Thin Walls

    By Ndubuisi Onyeacholam

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    LONG BOOK DESCRIPTION
    In THIN WALLS Ndubuisi has raised the bar of poetry writing and has also pushed linguistic boundary. This book contains 14 line poems called sonnets, and the lovers of poetry have not before seen such metaphorical verve that leaps out of its lines at the reader, yet it leaves the reader asking for more of the sonnet before he/she realizes that he/she has just read the last word of the last line of it.
    The poet charts a new course into subjects spanning from war to peace to romance etc, and is able to hold the fort in describing facts which is a skill traditionally reserved for prose. Ndubuisi simply exhibits an uncanny skill in the art of poetry writing, and one can venture to say that THIN WALLS will be meat on the plate of our modern poetry critics.
    THIN WALLS is the poems to beat, and has begun to blaze a trail on the literary horizon with its descriptive quality because its literary value is manifold.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNdubuisi Onyeacholam
    Release dateDec 2, 2019
    ISBN9780463654057
    Thin Walls
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    Ndubuisi Onyeacholam

    About the poet The poet was born on the 14th of April, 1972 in Imo State, Nigeria. He schooled in Community School, Umunoha, Achdeacon Denis Junior Seminary and Imo State University, Owerri, all in Imo State where he had his primary, post primary and university carriers. He is a lawyer resident in Port Harcourt, Nigeria where he lives with his family and carries on legal practice.

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      Thin Walls - Ndubuisi Onyeacholam

      Poetry

      Thin Walls

      Ndubuisi Onyeacholam

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      Copyright 2019 Ndubuisi Onyeacholam

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      Table of Contents

      Poem One : She fled church

      Poem Two: Raise your trumpet again

      Poem Tree: Nature’s heirs

      Poem Four: The child is crying

      Poem Five: He-dinosaurs

      Poem Six: Free...at last!

      Poem Seven: The question-marked file

      Poem Eight: The march to freedom

      Poem Nine: To fulfill the prophesy

      Poem Ten: The Cult Parsonage

      Poem Eleven: The lost tale

      Poem Twelve: A honeycomb of thin walls

      Poem Thirteen: Sing these verses abroad

      Poem Fourteen: Arise, oh mind

      Poem Fifteen: What is mortal man?

      Poem Sixteen: Went with the dinosaurs

      Poem Seventeen: Rise, black queen

      Poem Eighteen: African renaissance

      Poem Nineteen: Real renaissance

      Poem Twenty: Pre-Historians bury your clue

      Poem Twenty One: Lost dynasty

      Poem Twenty

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