POEM : What’s in a name?
By Emeka Chiakwelu
The modus letters are enumerated
Or how the balkanized words linger
The way it’s voiced
Or to whom it belongs
Then, what’s to a name?
To the history it belongs
Or how larynx fickle with it
Is it the way it looks?
Appears lazy … fast before the eye?
Or is it the way it sounds?
Handsome, antiquated, oddity or strange?
Can it sound positive?
Can it sound melodious?
Can it sound timid?
What’s in a name?
… Pronouncing or spelling?
Or unbearable attention it summons
What’s it connotes
Good or bad, beautiful or ugly
What’s in a name?
… the name or the person?
What is a name?
Yes… it’s the language
No . . . it’s the yesteryears
History…Do tongue know . . . anymore?
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