May 2015
I was born in Calabar, Nigeria and lived, among other places, in Egypt and England before settling near Boulder, Colorado with my wife and four children. I'm a computer engineer by trade, but poetry is my passion. My chapbook, Ndewo, Colorado is a Colorado Book Award Winner. In my spare time I snowboard, coach and play soccer, and train in American Kenpo. I am also an editor at Kin Poetry Journal.
After the Music Box
Sally Ann Howes in music box scene from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)
Turning around on a perfect rock
That's wound on a spindle far,
What do we see from the gyre of the gears
Under spell of the parent star.
Yearning for freedom, yet all its cares,
The perilous thrill of a first-time kiss;
Turning around for a chance at heaven
Which might or might not be bliss.
That's wound on a spindle far,
What do we see from the gyre of the gears
Under spell of the parent star.
Yearning for freedom, yet all its cares,
The perilous thrill of a first-time kiss;
Turning around for a chance at heaven
Which might or might not be bliss.
©2015 Uche Ogbuji