SPOTLIGHT

Some people are full of lies. Once you see through them, they start running. Because their only true super power is their ability to lie and to cover up their lies. Once you have or develop the kryptonite to this power, they run away from you.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Undulating Plains

YOUR FLOWER

Run down your Friends List
Run up your memory quest
Run through your heart first
You will find the same flower
In your happiest and saddest hour
And that flower is your power.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river

NEUBEGINN

Es kommt immer eines Tages
der Tag, an dem sich alles dreht;
ein Kapitel endet. Nichts Vages,
sondern Tatsächliches. Fest steht,
ein neuer Lebensabschnitt setzt an,
die Zeit für Neubeginn fängt jetzt an -
Versöhnung, Loslassen, Neustart. Es geht.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Im Jahrzehnt der deutschen Dichtung

SPIELE

Die Kinder spielen Basketball
Die Eltern sitzen abseits
Spielen Gedankenspiele und
Kommentieren das Spiel ihrerseits.
Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Im Jahrzehnt der deutschen Dichtung

I WISH YOU WELL

Though you hurt me
I wish you well
I pray that true love
Lift you where you fell
I pray that God’s Light
Illuminates your heart
I pray that good things
Line up your travel chart
And may it be well with you
In everything that you do.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river

MACHT DER MUSIK

Wenn ich traurig bin
macht mich Musik glücklich;

Wenn ich glücklich bin
macht mich Musik traurig.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Im Jahrzehnt der deutschen Dichtung

TIMING

We will
tell the time

and the time
will tell us.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river

STIMMEN

Stimmen draußen
Laut und grob, Schwert und Schild.

Stimmen drinnen
Viele und wirr und wild

Und unter all den Stimmen hier drinnen
Und jenseits all der Stimmen da draußen
Die eine Innere Stimme
leise und zart und wissend und mild.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Im Jahrzehnt der deutschen Dichtung

TIME WILL TELL

Time is such a strange thing. We always forget how long it is. One day you will change and you will look back and ask yourself Why. Why did I do that? Why did I not do that? Why did I say that? Why did I not say that? Why. Was it really worth it?

If it was, you will know and you will be happy. If it wasn’t, you will know and you will be sad.

But only time will tell you what your heart is still too blind or too stubborn or too immature to see today.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Undulating Plains

BROKEN RHYME

When trust breaks
The universe shakes

The heart aches
And aches and aches
And aches…

Because the poem has lost what it takes
To ever rhyme again.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river