they own
you true ~
ant egr
noo palt
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palt (n.) [OED Obs.]
A blow, a stroke; = PELT n.2
a1522 G. DOUGLAS tr. Virgil Æneid (1960) XIII. ii. 15 With mony palt
[1553 plat] scheddand thar purpour blude. 1625 S. PURCHAS Pilgrimes II.
VI. vi. 887 Lifting vp the woodden weapon, he gaue him such a palt on
the pate. 1630 Tincker of Turvey 7 Another gave me three palts on the
head, my Scull was crack'd. 1681 N. LEE Lucius Junius Brutus 73 The
Poets shall not stand, Like Shrove-tide Cocks, the Palt of every hand.
lifting up the woodden weapon The Poets shall not stand
the Palt of ev'ry hand
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On 4-May-07, at 4:59 AM, Obododimma Oha wrote:
Quicksand
Sand & seed
Dancing dust
Scorched metaphors shifting
Under your perch, probes
Of sinking earth
Words have drawn swords
The quick now
The dead soon
The known the unknown you own
Nothing
But the sands & the sprouting seed.
--- Obododimma Oha
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Obododimma Oha
PhD (Stylistics/War Rhetoric)
MSc (Legal, Criminological, & Security Psychology)
Senior Lecturer in Stylistics, Semiotics, & Discourse Analysis
Department of English, University of Ibadan
&
Fellow, Centre for Peace & Conflict Studies
University of Ibadan, NIGERIA
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