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

Photo credit: Pelumi Kayode


Postscript: a triolet in honour of Albert Jungers, a late writer and teacher of poetry.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Oyin 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 In 2015, he was a judge for the Green Author Prize, a literary award for young unpublished poets in Nigeria.

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