my life is one stanza of unrhymed poetry
each line reeks of its blistered rhythm
and the sonorous theme which got miscarried
in the frenzied flow of its cantos
do not scan for the metre
nor try to put it in verse
just follow the lyric splayed out
in the discordance of its hurried patterns
with the sober tone it has brought to birth
Sosthenes N. Ekeh is a lecturer in the Department of English and Literary Studies, UNN. He has lectured at Godfrey Okoye University, and Bigard Memorial Seminary, both in Enugu. He is a literary critic and a creative writer, with poems, short stories, playlets and research papers published in both local and international journals. He was the Editor of The Muse no. 43, and the Associate Editor of poetry in The Muse no. 42.