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Adunni (Love Poem)

I see men hovering around Sweating and bolstering to make you smile! Like the ants invading my moustache For imprints of sweets you left on my lips Their voices whispering appraising beauty of you Hope the heavens are not bankrupt It seems you emptied it’s glittering vault As before you now, all angels are flawed […]

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For Lesser Cause Than These

We shall overcome We shall overcome Someday O! Deep in my heart I do believe We shall overcome someday! . Sometimes I wonder why the someday of This Negro spiritual cannot be today Such spirited people high on hope Yet they only saw the promise Through the tainted telescope of crude imagination Like a meteor […]

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Aimed At You

my words would not be washed off Pilate’s hands to crucify them again on vain crosses my words would not re-stress the stress of our leaders they will undress the hypocrisy beneath your dress leaving your lies in a state of unrest my words are aimed at you to unseat the sited holiness of your […]

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I Leave My Soul

I leave my soul to the scandals of wisdom to the scavenging of glory grind my bones upon the rocks of glory do not bury me make me your fading whisper of a beautiful memory Originally published on PoemHunter on 2 January 2018.

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Pun

Let the Foreplay of destiny that was before played be fore played Originally published on PoemHunter on 2 January 2018.

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Home

Home For me is The brown sands Of the Sahara Where the scalding sun boils Intelligence in the Cauldron of Black skulls Originally published on PoemHunter on 2 January 2018.

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Raising Men

my words would not seek attention at the ulcer-ed conscience of unreachable malady they will not un-profit in screaming at corruption they will settle to build castles with the chaos of labour to raise children than rebuild men Originally published on PoemHunter on 2 January 2018.

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Good Night

The moon sparkles like a million diamonds As the silk hands of icy wind Caress the warm bodies Of honeymoon lovers Good night Originally published on PoemHunter on 2 January 2018.

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Good Night Lover

could I run out of words? Maybe for you, I may not find the perfect words to give expression to thoughts, but you can go to bed reading this, “you are special beyond the limitation that words can afford” “you even have the tendencies to stop the pen of a ready poet” forcing him to […]

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Rebirth

in pain, in suffering, in hunger I reborn myself! pushing the limits in the fortitude of travail. I will rise a new man Originally published on PoemHunter on 2 January 2018.

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