She poured out her mind thus:
My dream came true,
As the way I do
Everything with you,
No one else will ever do –
Then we caught a cold.
So, let us grab another day
To drive this matrimonial acrimony away.
Genre: Rhyme, Relationship
<B>ATONEMENT
(For Ako and Antigha)
by Orok Duke</b>
She poured out her mind thus:
My dream came true,
As the way I do
Everything with you,
No one else will ever do –
Then we caught a cold.
So, let us grab another day
To drive this matrimonial acrimony away.
On that chosen day,
A day that was gladsome and gay,
They found time to be alone,
For them to review and atone.
Later that day,
Towards the midnight hour,
I overheard, ”Can I join you?”
And a reply, ”Of course, love!”
Then: smack, muffles, giggles, kisses and some other
Unrecognisable but hushed sounds,
Came from their Honeymoon suite.
They slept peacefully after.
She drifted back to memory lane,
To when she heard him for the first time:
The sonorous, but guttural voice
And that familiar scent of smitten lovers,
Wafted slowly and overwhelmed the room,
Reminding them of those blissful days –
The way they were,
Their idyllic days in Obio Usiere.
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Fall down, lay low and pray,
The delay of the crowd is blinding.
Fall down, lay low and pray,
Realized fear is now arising,
Fall down, lay-low and pray,
My God the Blood is Spraying.
Fall down, lay-low and pray,
The delay, to Reload, was temporary.
Fall down, no need, we lay,
Like birds we flocked together.
Be still, don’t move, they’ll see,
oh God please here our plea.
Cry out, don’t shoot, don’t kill,
Deaths release is now upon thee.
If you were a mouth nothing more nothing less
What thoughts and sentiments would you express
Watched closely you can see what it can be
A scarlet vermil tinctured gash swearing profanities
A pink rose bud singing words so pure and sweet
Luscious peach that makes you bow and weep
A yellow stained pot of putrid breath
With singhing puffs from wilted lungs left
Dripping red gloss leaving stains of pain
Pale nude dry rough as sand paper
Devoid of knowledge, love, life or caper
Lizard licking trickery devious intent
A whisker and lipstick so seriously bent
Flowing words of a canaries song
Or laced with ice to make them wrong
Wit and intellectual spiels from thin lines
Passions full lips tantalize and entwine
Toothless gobs of verborrhea
Perfection portrayed in a Model’s leer
Newborns purity precious unique Virgin angelical…
Never have we seen a day as dismal as today,
shuddering rain of contempt,
on ours paths of concrete and subversion,
we soak in the mists of our mentors; delusionary stories,
traced with anthrax & disdain.
Traditions and séances
help us achieve Nirvana.
A day so bleak
we’re bound to break,
Fall into eternal slumber of empty vanities,
of translucent fabricated fictions & dreams of empathy.
To return,
back to our graves of the subconscious,
we loathe disturbance,
give power to the grief & days ivory dull like today.
Illuminated sky; a galaxy of wonders and melting ice,
Furies of fervor and fire,
in the midst of the dark.
Now we wish to return
,to slumber,
where Home surrounds
and noise is unheard of,
where visions are foreseeable
and we mistake the future for the past.
My Joseph, My JAM- My Poem written to my beloved Joseph.
by Adrienne Miranda
A beautiful morn at 6:07, a precious angel came down from heaven; he quickly encountered the awe of the room; he stole my heart after embracing my womb.
My babe is beautiful, so perfect and sweet; he awaited his family for soon he would meet. That smile on his face so tender and mild; thank you, sweet Jesus, for my darling child.
I will call him Joseph after my dad, a spirited heart and a wonderful lad.
He would love all the earth in all of its glory and take hold of each life that entered his story.
From fish to turtle, to hamster to crab, he filled every nook and with gusto would grab.
My son he lightened the world with his smile, not knowing his time would be but a…
Not as to wait, for the endless dawn
Never done with this dread, reconciled on the page
Oscilating thought patterns drifting, as if mental brawn
Looking inward, feeling outward, with the pen I shall wage
Lights cast on the ground, as though my mind seeks another
There are wisps of cloud overhead. It is here I commiserate
It can be lonely. I think of my mother
I have yet to serve those outside the business plate
It isn’t as if I can’t detach. Many who recommend this
Say another day of work is ahead, then the week and it’s awful
Words jotted on the page, written blackly, obliquely. They fend bliss
Pressed into service. At least I am lawful
I will persevere
I prefer LOL! dear
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It was as if I were a painting …
abstract splash of colour …
no subject …
a road …
people walking …
over weight …
angry …
jealous …
not hiding their distaste …
they showed a distaste for me …
sneering hatred …
scared …
scared of me …
who …
what …
what had I done …
I could not recognise myself …
one person came …
surrounded by a rainbow …
rainbow of magnificent colours …
music danced around her …
she was walking towards me …
I called to her …
beautiful ambient sounds …
atmospheric …
infiltrating …
giving people colour …
sweeping hatred and anger …
people now sat before me …
spirits open to see …
longing to be free …
free of their conscious minds …
serenading them into happiness … they grew old…