AND WHAT OF IT, IF THUS YOU LAID? by Oyin Oludipe
AND WHAT OF IT, IF THUS YOU LAID?
For Albert Jungers, poet and teacher
And what of it, if thus you laid?
Your worlds yet danced, for so did they
Whose naked lode yours sagely warms
And what of it, if thus you laid?
And dared the storm where tart it thrums
Reap I a race such bade to say
And what of it, if thus you laid?
Your worlds yet danced, for so did they
Photo credit: Pelumi Kayode
Postscript: a triolet in honour of Albert Jungers, a late writer and teacher of poetry.
ABOUT THE AUTHOROyin Oludipe lives and writes in Nigeria. He is the recipient of the 2013 WRR Poetry Beacon Prize. His poetry, essays, and reviews have been featured or are forthcoming in Radar Poetry Journal, The Guardian, Afrikana.ng, Africanwriter.com, Arts and Africa, Akewi Arts House, The Provo Canyon Review, The Bombay Review, Image Magazine of the University of Ibadan, and others. In 2015, he was a judge for the Green Author Prize, a literary award for young unpublished poets in Nigeria.
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