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Dreams That Learn To Lie: Candid and Emotionally Reflective Poems where dreams are not always innocent

Dreams That Learn To Lie: Candid and Emotionally Reflective Poems where dreams are not always innocent

Agwu, Chimaobi James

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Literary Fiction

ISBN10: 9786819861
ISBN13: 9789786819860
Publisher: Dobizness B2B Services Limited
Published: Mar 4 2026
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Dreams That Learn To Lie is a haunting and introspective collection of 32 candid poems, including 15 sonnets and 20 sub-chapters, by Chimaobi James Agwu, exploring the fragile boundaries between hope and disillusionment, memory and forgetting, faith and doubt. Each poem speaks in a voice that is at once personal and universal, tracing the quiet transformations that occur when innocence meets experience and when dreams are forced to confront reality.

Within these pages, scars become prisms through which pain refracts into meaning, dying suns leave behind epitaphs of fading glory, and lost normalcy lingers like an echo from a distant past. The poems move between the deeply reflective and the vividly symbolic, inviting readers into landscapes where beauty and decay exist side by side. In Prisms of Scars, wounds become windows into resilience, while Epitaphs for a Dying Sun meditates on endings that feel both inevitable and strangely luminous. Normal Was Lost Years Ago captures the quiet disorientation of a world that no longer feels familiar, and Glory Blooms Were Seeds of Death Are Sown explores the uneasy relationship between triumph and sacrifice.

Spiritual and philosophical themes weave through the collection. The Monk's Mirror turns inward in search of truth and self-reckoning, while Epic of the Threshold Sanctuary stands as a meditation on crossing-from one state of being into another, from ignorance into understanding, from longing into acceptance. In The Preacher Man, questions of faith and authority unfold with unflinching honesty, while I Will Not Wed the Fairest Rose of Spring reflects on love, choice, and the quiet defiance of expectation. And the Excrement Spatters confronts the raw and uncomfortable realities of the revelations of the Epstein files, refusing to turn away from the grotesque debauchery and sexual abuse that characterize the high, the mighty and the prominent ones in society.

In I Am in Obudu, the physical landscape becomes inseparable from the emotional one, grounding reflection in a sense of place and presence.

Throughout the collection, Agwu writes with candor and lyrical intensity, confronting loss, transformation, identity, and the quiet resilience of the human spirit. The poems do not shy away from darkness, yet they remain attentive to flickers of light-moments of clarity that emerge even in uncertainty. The result is a body of work that feels intimate yet expansive, grounded in lived experience but open to interpretation.

Dreams That Learn To Lie is a journey through shifting inner worlds, where truth is not always fixed and dreams are not always innocent. It is a collection for readers who are drawn to reflective, emotionally resonant poetry that lingers in the mind long after the final page. Enjoy!

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