The Gulp — Ibrahim Sheme

The archive The Gulp Poem by Ibrahim Sheme · 1990 A light year’s gulp severed usThough our fathomless dream mar-riedWe swam in the unilateral sea ofalonenessBecause the gulp severed us.My tears caked into the islandsof longing, seeking your ismuthand the oars of my resolve trodethe watery bridge.But irate waves warnedme of drowningsome restive tide washedthe […]

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Love is blind — Mukhtar S. ‘Wakeel

The archive Love is blind Poem by Mukhtar S. ‘Wakeel · 1994 Love they say is blindLove are you blind?If you are blindHow did you get to my soul?Love the flowering plantLove the alpha and the omegaLove you are the doctor of sorrowIn love I met MaryamAnd in love we shall remain.In dreams I keep […]

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Rest (Another Love Poem)

Poetry Rest (Another Love Poem) Poem by Vic’Adex · 2018 Rest I am fallen upon your breasts And my hearts whispers rests How the slides of your waist Flutters into dream of my dreams When two great rivers meet They choose the depth within your thighs I have watched and become clueless Until others became […]

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I Will Follow You

Poetry I Will Follow You Poem by Vic’Adex · 2018 Sheep follows shepherd Even lambs unto slaughter Three hundred into Thermopylae Millions hailed Hitler Tightly Through ghostly caves devouring souls Your innocent staff, they comforted me Leading me to green Meadows And awes of still waters Still I will follow you Though when I strayed […]

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Adunni (Love Poem)

Poetry Adunni (Love Poem) Poem by Vic’Adex · 2018 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 […]

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This Place Of My Love

Poetry This Place Of My Love Poem by Vic’Adex · 2018 This place of my Love Is a quick sand with tourist attraction Like a self-aware mouse knowing That this cheese will be the death of me . What do I do When the one who breaks my heart Is still the one that possess […]

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Come

Poetry Come Poem by Vic’Adex · 2018 Before words became the tools of expression This love was sung with the effulgence of glory Too sacred for the unclean lips of fallen man This love existed above time But this love entered time That this love may be eternal Before love became how lowly you can […]

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Love Is More

Poetry Love Is More Poem by Vic’Adex · 2018 Love is more than the ridiculous and outrageous Valentine excesses Love is more than the constant plot of Bollywood movies Love is more than unstable human feelings Before love etered the imaginations of man Love was the song on replay in the eternal iPods of heaven […]

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Good Night

Poetry Good Night Poem by Vic’Adex · 2018 The moon sparkles like a million diamonds As the silk hands of icy wind Caress the warm bodies Of honeymoon lovers Good night First published 18 January 2015. Later published on PoemHunter on 2 January 2018. Previous poemRaising MenNext poemGood Night Lover

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God Made Tears For Days Like These

Poetry God Made Tears For Days Like These Poem by Vic’Adex · 2018 God made tears for days like these Love is a broken bottle inside pregnant wombs Emotions are shattered glasses in baby’s court Hearts pounding me on the stakes of folly Hearts were made to bleed! God made tears for days like these […]

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