{"id":259,"date":"2011-05-19T10:56:33","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T10:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mtls.ca\/issue9\/?page_id=259"},"modified":"2019-04-02T13:22:44","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T13:22:44","slug":"ikenna-onyegbula","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mtls.ca\/issue11\/spoken-word\/ikenna-onyegbula","title":{"rendered":"Ikenna Onyegbula"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Art Applied Alphabetically<\/h1>\n<p><strong>A<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>brother came down<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>embracing, from glorious Heaven-<br \/>\nissuing joyous knowledge;<br \/>\nleading many novices onwards.<br \/>\nPeople quickly repented sins.<br \/>\nTempting, unrighteous vices were x&#8217;d,<br \/>\nyielding zealously&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Yet, xenophobes would vouch,<br \/>\nuntruthfully,<br \/>\nthat Satan rendered questionable powers<br \/>\nof no moral, lawful, Kingly justification.<br \/>\nIronically, Heaven&#8217;s glorious form embraces.<br \/>\nDown came brother&#8230; aspiring&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; and applying art apprehensively,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>blazing beauty blatantly,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>censoring certain channels, certainly-<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>disposition deadly.<br \/>\nEvidently evade ends,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>flight, fleeing foolish friends,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>glorious genius, given gems-<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>heavily heeding, I intend&#8230;<br \/>\n&#8230;juggernaut jeopardizing jeopardy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Killers kissing Kennedy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Legions loving lies,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>memorializing mean mis-governing.<br \/>\nNow, nobody nurses notion-<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>obliterated over ocean-<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>people paying, pleading, praying,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Queens quivering, quiet query.<br \/>\nRenounce, re-define redemption,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>sacrifice scholastic stations.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Topple true temptation,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>un-easy, utter undulation.<br \/>\nViolate vice vigorously,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>weed, withdraw xenophobia.<br \/>\nYoungsters your youngsters yield yearn your<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>zany zealot\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s zeal\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>zestfully, you yell,<br \/>\nyesterday&#8217;s x-ray will<br \/>\nweaken wayward wasted vain ventures uncovered today.<br \/>\nSeductively, serpents say<br \/>\nrenounce redemption- remain,<br \/>\nrestrain&#8230; refrain&#8230; retain,<br \/>\nquestioning perfect poetry&#8230;<br \/>\n&#8230; of &#8230;<br \/>\n&#8230;Nature&#8217;s natural magic magnified mentally,<br \/>\nmeditate, learning laws.<br \/>\nLearn Love- key.<br \/>\nJehovah, I harbored hate,<br \/>\nharrowing, haunting hate,<br \/>\nGod guided fearlessly,<br \/>\neventually, disaster ceased.<br \/>\nChild chosen beautifully.<br \/>\nboy blazing blatantly.<br \/>\nAn art&#8230; applied&#8230; apprehensively.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7p3EXy0I3ac\" width=\"450\" height=\"259\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Art Applied Alphabetically A &nbsp; brother came down &nbsp; embracing, from glorious Heaven- issuing joyous knowledge; leading many novices onwards. People quickly repented sins. Tempting, unrighteous vices were x&#8217;d, yielding zealously&#8230; &#8212;&#8211; Yet, xenophobes would vouch, untruthfully, that Satan rendered questionable powers of no moral, lawful, Kingly justification. Ironically, Heaven&#8217;s glorious form embraces. Down came [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":135,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"authorpoetry.php","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-259","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtls.ca\/issue11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtls.ca\/issue11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtls.ca\/issue11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtls.ca\/issue11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtls.ca\/issue11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/mtls.ca\/issue11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1109,"href":"https:\/\/mtls.ca\/issue11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/259\/revisions\/1109"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtls.ca\/issue11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtls.ca\/issue11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}