STILL, I SIT STILL (a poem by Tim Nwaobilo)

Stargazing at night, chilled dusty wind strikes my chin

Alone with a stone for seat and marauding thoughts for lonely company

Brown ants build a colony around my black feet

Still, I sit still

It now rains, giant globules dribble off my wrinkled skin

Darkness stealthily spreads her blanket over Earth and her crannies

Within, I feel the Phoenix slowly rising from the ashes

Still, I sit still

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'We' is one of 10 poems shortlisted for the final voting  round in the Season4 of the #PulseStudentPoetry Prize.

The poet with the highest combined votes after this round will win our Lenovo ThinkPad and join our past winners, Madu Chisom Kingdavid, ,  and Antoni Chidera in the #PulseStudentPoetry Hall of Fame.

If you want to READ or locate them in the related posts section.

Your vote counts as we select the next young Nigerian poet to own a Lenovo ThinkPad. So you can now VOTE for the person you want to be our next winner from by commenting, liking or sharing to Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

NOTE: The winning poem/poet emerges after a totalling of number of Likes, Shares, Tweets, Retweets and Comments posted on the poem.

Also, when you share the link to any of the poems, remember to use the tag #PulseStudentPoetry on Twitter and Instagram and also mention @PulseNigeria247 so that they can be tracked and added to the poets' points.

IRRELEVANT COMMENTS MAY LEAD TO DISQUALIFICATION!!

Read all the shortlisted poems by clicking the links in the POEM TITLES above, or check for a direct link in the 'related posts' section (left of your screen). After that, vote for your favorite poems

If you are not contesting in this season, or you  did not make our shortlist remember that the contest continues in Season5 which will start by Monday August 4, 2014.

There is a laptop to be won every month!

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