Songs of a Chicken Bone

My song is the sombre laughter of the wind

Wandering torpidly

In the corridor of time and space

The whimpering of the butterfly

Escaped from your womb.

One day you will find it

In the warring conferences of rivers,

In pouring streams of laughter and tears.

Songs of a Chicken Bone is a collection of passionate and assured poems; the poet’s first full

length offering of poetry. Themes are universally varied, but the poems are deeply personal.

What others say

"With Oboido's endless creativity, his graceful pen allows the reader to relax, laugh and enjoy

the in-depth pride of one's African culture."- Dr. Shirley Butler-Derge, Nzingha

Publishers

"There’s much to enjoy in these poems: spirited and engaged with the world, often rapt, packed

with self-discovery and all the poems held together with an utterly charming and generous

interest in people and places — it’s very much about your encounter with the things of the

world" - Chris Hamilton Emery, Poet and Literary Publisher