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    Whistles in the Wind
    Whistles in the Wind
    Whistles in the Wind
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    Whistles in the Wind

    By Felix Bongjoh

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    Whistles in the Wind explores experiences of diverse forms that make up the essence of modern man’s life, lending voice to his main responses to both natural and man-made stimuli surrounding him in a longitudinal context of time as a malleable prism, through which man’s actions may be perceived. In rural and urban settings, in work and leisure contexts and in spheres of social interaction in times of peace and war, man is always confronted with choices, and how choices are made. The book is further concerned with an artistic form through which man’s behavior is best understood. In this regard, the ubiquitous use of imagery is intended to throw light on man’s interaction with nature in the context of both the static (physical features and forces) and changing dynamics beyond man’s control. Above all, it is also generally about how little winds of events, subtle warning whistles blowing in them, matter and lead to ultimate storms that may have been averted. From whatever angle life is viewed, man’s resilience is dealt with rather implicitly in terms of how he deals with death, the height of man’s gloom, and other tragic events, invariably evolving and transformed into man’s cycles of hilarious and victorious moods.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTrafford Publishing
    Release dateFeb 26, 2019
    ISBN9781490793931
    Whistles in the Wind
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    Felix Bongjoh

    Felix Bongjoh, currently living in Boston, Massachusetts, is an International Human Capital Development Consultant, who previously worked for an international organization for some 30 years. In addition to the present twenty-fifth book, Saddle On Thunder, Bongjoh has previously published 24 books of poetry, as follows: (i) Chorus on a Bridge; (ii) Broken Gloss of Bliss; (iii) Nightfall at Dawn; (iv) When Dusk Hoots; (v) Weeds of Jewelry; (vi) Season of Flowers; (vii) The Ineluctable Spin; (viii) Gloom’s Sprout of Love; (ix) Spectrum of Zephyrs; (x) Whistles in the Wind; (xi) The Sun Still Glitters; (xii) Cliff of Sirens; (xiii) Quiet Shadows Scream; (xiv) Angle of Angels; (xv) Sculpted Out of Sky; (xvi) Feathers of Fur; (xvii) Through Sundry Waves; (xviii) Beyond Dying Ripples; (xix) Doors to Eris; (xx) Outskirts of Inner Bowl; (xxi) Ebbing Out, Bouncing Back; (xxii) Tailored To The Stars; (xxiii) A Storm Wave’s Reach; and (xxiv) Isles Of Light.

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      Whistles in the Wind - Felix Bongjoh

      Copyright 2019 Felix Bongjoh.

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the written prior permission of the author.

      ISBN: 978-1-4907-9392-4 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4907-9393-1 (e)

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      This book is

      dedicated to the memory of my beloved departed daughter, Agnes Josiane Bongjoh

      Contents

      Whistles in the wind

      Croaking Pen-eye

      Eye and Soul

      Eternal life

      Emergency

      Filling up the tank

      Wailing women

      Perhaps

      After the gathering

      Too early a celebration

      The New Algorithm

      Mountains and Trenches

      The sermon

      Pit of Innocence

      Screaming Wrinkles

      Immobility

      Hail Stones

      Slippery Lanes

      Me without me

      Bung’s Bungalow

      Puffy Morning

      Wind and Housemaid

      In Grief’s Garden

      Farm in Wilderness

      Pick the first fruit

      Journey Just Begun

      Mammoth Eagle Lands

      Dromedary

      Doubly Amputated

      Feathers of my Eyes

      Near Distant Fondles

      Tall Mountains

      Bustards

      A Voracious Gale

      More than a Storm

      Goddess of Versatility

      Bridled Silence

      Digging through Trash

      Lift up your boots

      Oasis

      Concurrent bubbles

      The old eucalyptus tree

      No voice, no tone

      Ceiling of harvests

      Mayhem

      A hill in flames

      Playing politics with cocks

      Deep in a library’s heat

      Verse and rodent

      Discovering hilly history

      Time and blind choices

      Whistles in the wind

      (i)

      Stuttering voices digest in large

      Gulps, life’s juices; pop out hastily

      From exhaust pipes, thud through -

      Through waves boiled, grilled

      And unleashed along rails, choked trains:

      Dying echoes rattle in turmoil.

      Krakatoa’s deep voice eject wild fingers

      And cutting tremors through earth’s

      Nerves birds die, ears slashed, flying.

      And heavy gunfire dilutes

      Lion groan into cheetah chirrup

      As dry leaf rattles in the wind

      Chase away leopards, impatient

      Cheetahs limping, stand up, a wind

      Going haywire, as sighs thunder.

      (ii)

      Boreas and Notus in Unkulunkulu’s

      Swamps drain cleaved lions

      In the wind opening mouth wider

      Neptune’s whale-sized arm lifted

      Up in a wind is heard through swords

      Flung into the air, breaking as they drop.

      Into bulldozers rumbling with drummers

      As tears are shed from gun mouths

      And sun bashes moon out of shimmer

      Dinners served in rock-bowls

      In dancing leaves tilting to false kings

      Usurping heavy lap space on monarchs

      Three-eyed owls O wild bats playing

      Ball with each other’s belly hanging

      Loosely from burning iron branches –

      Whistles in wind begin from whistling

      Kettles, accost the broadbills hushing

      Shy thrushes, the bassist’s ribs breaking.

      Break, break and flip over into ditches

      At a rivers mouth drinking the world,

      As winds drift red plastic cups drenched

      In squirrels’ torn mouths baring bearing

      Their gait on trailing tails frightening

      Vipers with the experience of short worms.

      (iii)

      The dog on hindlegs takes over his master’s

      Drum, beats it so close to his ears they drop

      Into the dog’s manger, spy and flip back

      To the man’s empty face, peeled off

      By clawed wind hands merely bidding

      Goodbye to doors unlocked and banging

      Like the collapsing walls of tall buildings

      In the mall center where even skin

      Is bought for leather sold for mere coins

      And gutters run down angry throats

      With sludge for a night-long dinner.

      As tempers lash out one more bong.

      Before the World Conference pitches

      The Nile against the Congo River

      And Zephyrus emerges from the Amazon

      With a storm taking a wild dip in

      The Mississippi, which along with the Atlantic,

      Roll down streets in Johannesburg

      And bathe angry kings along the Nile,

      All rivers of the world are emptied into one

      Giant ocean capsizing every ship, the Sahara

      Too busy digging trenches for debris

      For elephant carcasses, blue whale skeletons

      Trumpeting the world with milder winds

      As dung beetles play buzzing drums

      With broken arms, wasps unleashed from

      Elephant footfalls, from lion skins

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