Sunset Silhouettes

THE SUN WILL CLOSE ITS BOOKS ON A DAY LIKE ANY OTHER ROUND UP ITS WARMTH AND RETRACTS THE LIGHTS TO FEED ANOTHER IN DEGREES IT RECEDES, SLIPPING IN, OUT, AND ABOUT THE FLAMING ORANGEY CLOUDS HALF-DIPPED IN THE HORIZON A DAZZLING HOPELESSNESS COURTS THE NIGHT THE SUN WILL CLOSE ITS BOOKS ON A DAY LIKE ANY OTHER BUT CAN IT ACCOUNT FOR THE SLUMPED LONE SILHOUETTE FACELESS BEAUTY THAT HOVERS IN ITS FOREGROUND MATCHING ITS SADNESS WITH THE SPLENDID SUNSET A DAZZLING HOPELESSNESS ENCAMPS THE SOUL THE FINAL CHARM OF A DYING DAY. Sunset Silhouettes is Linda Adede Ongola's debut poetry anthology which features a hundred poems written mostly in free verse and of the confessional genre. It covers themes of mental health, theodicy, love, betrayal, and corruption among other social concerns.