Untitled(Tan-Renga)Poems
Poetry by Uchechukwu Onyedikam & Christina Chin
deep night
fills this lonely space
bright moonlight
yet none to warm
my hands with
spider web
across my face
she passes
the soup
instead of water
a mud hut
of red earth
the boy homed
a flock of landing
mallards
mourners observe
all the prayers
unsaid
the high priest
leads the rituals
old neighborhood
no more childhood mates
plum blossoms
sweetens ageing
memories
Uchechukwu Onyedikam is a Nigerian creative artist based in Lagos, Nigeria. His poems have appeared in Amsterdam Quarterly, Brittle Paper, Poetic Africa, Hood Communists and in print anthologies. Christina Chin and he have co-published Pouring Light on the Hills (2022).
Christina Chin is a painter and haiku poet from Malaysia. She is a four-time recipient of top 100 in the mDAC Summit Contests, exhibited at the Palo Alto Art Center, California. She is 1st prize winner of the 34th Annual Cherry Blossom Sakura Festival 2020 Haiku Contest and 1st prize winner in the 8th Setouchi Matsuyama 2019 Photohaiku Contest. She has been published in numerous journals, multilingual journals, and anthologies, including Japan's prestigious monthly Haikukai Magazine.