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Just A Dream?

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Aug 292011
 
Just A Dream?

The fluorescent tube flickered intermittently, each time plunging the veranda into pitch black darkness. The night was hot and humid and the air stood still; the cheap fan in the room blew nothing but hot [...]

For Too Long

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Aug 272011
 
For Too Long

You’ve heard this Song of despair For too long. Danced to lethargy To its dark seductive tune, Bound to ineptitude By its harsh rasping lyrics; Your ship wrecks on the rocks Once and again… Take [...]

For This Lost One

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Apr 242011
 
For This Lost One

Strike him a tune, Let this poet sing, Inebriated on bitter wine, Clouded by failures of before, And misfortune immutable. Let him sing of despair, Let his words paint pictures forlorn.

Red Day

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Feb 262011
 
Red Day

The colour of the day was red. Red is also the colour for tragedies-and of blood spilt all over the bathroom floor. How fitting. St. Valentine’s day-love’s day and tragedy, and folly all rolled in [...]

Head Above

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Feb 252011
 
Head Above

How do I cross this torrent?
These waters rage,
Menacing unfriendly currents
Seeming unconquerable
I despair.

Foretelling

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Feb 242011
 
Foretelling

From this very parched ground, Brown, barren and cracked, Beauty shall come- Amazing green and fruit, And Adam’s seed shall marvel.

Verses

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Jan 062011
 
Verses

A draught of the finest liquor, Of essence pure and strong, Tingling its way down, warm It is a cool breeze blowing, Scattering the prevailing stillness, Shaking those things that once stood firm;

Unfair (2)

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Dec 162010
 
Unfair (2)

It took her a few seconds to process the news, “What did you just say? What did you do?” Her voice shot up to a falsetto; it always did when she was really scared. As [...]

Unfair (1)

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Dec 142010
 
Unfair (1)

Fun. That is all I was looking for that cool breezy Friday night at the Lights Club, Ikorodu, and I was having it till they came to spoil it all. I was sitting at home, [...]

Daughter of Eve

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Nov 112010
 
Daughter of Eve

Daughter of Eve, tell me,

Which is the misnomer:

Abigail or Delilah?

I must know fore I succumb

To your bewitching charms;

This excursion once taken,

Cannot be undone

Hesitation

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Oct 212010
 
Hesitation

He stood there,
Every rising of the sun,
At the jetty gear packed,
Ready to go, waiting,
Till the great golden orb waned,
The great vessels come and go,
Floating cities,
Means to his dreams,
Yet he stood there.

Musing About Yesterday II

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Oct 192010
 
Musing About Yesterday II

There’s a vast distance betwixt
This sculpting and the sculptor’s image,
Errors were a multitude.
His mind travelled a thousand journeys,
Attention died a thousand deaths;
He lazed in the day,
Rushed futilely in the dark;

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