Untitled - Azam Abidov - poet and translator

JOHN NKEMNGONG NKENGASONG
John Nkemngong Nkengasong is a Cameroonian poet, playwright,
novelist and critic. His major literary publications include Black Caps
and Red Feathers (2001), Across the Mongolo (2004), The Widow’s Might
(2006), Letters to Marion (And the Coming Generations) (2009) and
The Call of Blood (2010). He has been a Fulbright scholar at New York
University, guest writer at the University of Oxford, visiting academic at the
University of Regensburg, Germany, and a participant in the International
Writing Program at the University of Iowa, USA. He is currently Associate
Professor of Literature at the University of Yaounde 1, Cameroon.
The Princely Kite
So high he roams
the immense sky
flapping his imperial wings
on his mighty chest
and perches on the towers
of the blue
so high he sails in the sky
before a train of colourful clouds
to fair and foreign lands
where lies a pleasure
known to few
so high the great bird
searches far across the sky
and swoops down
on a little humble chick
and to the highest perch it flies
till death plays his timely trick
and down he flutters
the princely kite
like a leaf loose in the wind.
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