Preemptive twist.
She broke into the studio. He had his ear - piece fastened to his ears. His hands akimbo, the middle finger tucking at a light foam that partitioned his wall from the doorjamb. His shrill voice tore the air with disgust. The ridges on his face was an attestation to the emptiness he felt when she dragged him off her bed across the small lit passage , stuffed with his nylon bags and dirty clothes. She opened the torn net and threw him and his loads on the road. He fell like a useless carton and laid flat, with his head splashed over a shit locked garden of weeds. She chorused abusive words at him. She raised her fingers in bitterness. She ranted like a child whose bike has been colonized by a not beloved cousin. Her pain rose as visible veins on her forehead. There was a raucous surge of anger and tears in her face. The waters tore through her eyelids like the pop of champagne. She shivered as she reluctantly shut the door against his sorry body, dejectedly sprawled on the floor .
She felt like a garbage. She sank her index finger into her crimp hair and wailed with intermittent cackles. She loved him. She really, really loved him. She sold her father's only land to buy him studio slots. She had nurtured him as her own since she took him off the street after his parents threw him out for his destructive addictions - His abuse of marijuana, cocaine and cough syrups.
Her parents were late, and she had all the rights to the only bungalow and a piece of land left to her - as inheritance.
She had stumbled on him while he was seated on a fence close to her house. His nose and ears in flames like he was part of the Sango( god of fire and thunder) dynasty. Even 'Thor' would have run a jingle for safety measures on his behalf. He smoked recklessly. They got talking and she couldn't remember how they became five and six.
On the third day, he caught her half way through the air and belched ecstasy into her juice oven. His sweat poured unreserved on her bare breast. She gasped for breathe and puffed laughter into his mouth and chins. His eyes were squinted as he bellowed answers to her endless questions.
'Do you love me, are we gonna get married, when will you stop smoking, did your dad really ask you not to come home ever...?'
He took her legs up and hump her torso. She walked into his erected mass of pleasure rendering flesh and ground him till her voice was soft and stuffed with ecstasy.
'Be soft on the next verse', the producer said.
Linda, a sweet guitar playing girl, came up to his nostrils and tried hard to kiss him. He took her hands off his waist and winked at her.
' Ada will be mad at you', he whispered helplessly.
'Komolafe, I love you; we can just be friends with benefits', Linda tenderly proposed.
Komolafe took off his ear - piece , shook hands with the producer and shut the slouchy door of the stuffy studio against himself. He walked into the cascading grace of the golden Sun.
'Am home !' He whispered into the ears of Ada who was fast asleep. She raised her neat eyelids, kissed him and pointed at the black flask on the mason wooden table; describing its content with her low voice.
Komolafe sat on the chair at the mid point of the room and gulped it with dire impatience.
She raised her legs , sprang up on her feet and sat on his feet. She smelt the Cologne and detected the lip stick stains on the collar of his turquoise shirt. Her eyebrows were scattered and her face grew long. Komolafe was still busy spooning his food when she took it off him and bathed him with it. He dripped of rice, beans and salad. He stood dumfounded and quickly went into the shower to wash himself and ran through the tiny passage to the other room; sat on the bed and searched for eye ointment to quell his peppery eyes in amusement.
She followed him and beat him with everything her hands could find. He was still startled. He bashed his head against the wall and tore her own blouse. She pounced on him, zipped down his trouser , and tucked his into hers. She danced with tears on him. And when he came..., she dragged him off her bed and flung him to the vast street alongside his belongings.
He laid confused. Lost.
He packed himself up and went straight to the studio after all attempts to console her and address the issue was abortive.
Ada stared at the Newscaster absent mindedly.
Komolafe had made a shipwreck of her life, she thought to herself. Something beeped close to her, in between the sofa. It was Komolafe's handset. He forgot it.
Ada had sent him a long text of how she made all attempts for him to love her and how he had made her feel cheap, small and less attractive. She wished him well and prayed she was in the shoe of his girlfriend and how she hoped his girlfriend would treat him as well as she would have. She ended the text with a farewell and love emoji.
Linda checked the time the text came in and noticed it was 15minutes before Komolafe stepped into the house - 5:15pm.
She wiped her tears and loathed herself for her idiotic act. She dressed herself up and ran to the studio.
She came into the studio, trembling as she heard his pain strewn voice. She hugged him from behind and they both wept. He still loves her and it was same on her part.
™Fireflies&Bumblebees
©TomShe broke into the studio. He had his ear - piece fastened to his ears. His hands akimbo, the middle finger tucking at a light foam that partitioned his wall from the doorjamb. His shrill voice tore the air with disgust. The ridges on his face was an attestation to the emptiness he felt when she dragged him off her bed across the small lit passage , stuffed with his nylon bags and dirty clothes. She opened the torn net and threw him and his loads on the road. He fell like a useless carton and laid flat, with his head splashed over a shit locked garden of weeds. She chorused abusive words at him. She raised her fingers in bitterness. She ranted like a child whose bike has been colonized by a not beloved cousin. Her pain rose as visible veins on her forehead. There was a raucous surge of anger and tears in her face. The waters tore through her eyelids like the pop of champagne. She shivered as she reluctantly shut the door against his sorry body, dejectedly sprawled on the floor .
She felt like a garbage. She sank her index finger into her crimp hair and wailed with intermittent cackles. She loved him. She really, really loved him. She sold her father's only land to buy him studio slots. She had nurtured him as her own since she took him off the street after his parents threw him out for his destructive addictions - His abuse of marijuana, cocaine and cough syrups.
Her parents were late, and she had all the rights to the only bungalow and a piece of land left to her - as inheritance.
She had stumbled on him while he was seated on a fence close to her house. His nose and ears in flames like he was part of the Sango( god of fire and thunder) dynasty. Even 'Thor' would have run a jingle for safety measures on his behalf. He smoked recklessly. They got talking and she couldn't remember how they became five and six.
On the third day, he caught her half way through the air and belched ecstasy into her juice oven. His sweat poured unreserved on her bare breast. She gasped for breathe and puffed laughter into his mouth and chins. His eyes were squinted as he bellowed answers to her endless questions.
'Do you love me, are we gonna get married, when will you stop smoking, did your dad really ask you not to come home ever...?'
He took her legs up and hump her torso. She walked into his erected mass of pleasure rendering flesh and ground him till her voice was soft and stuffed with ecstasy.
'Be soft on the next verse', the producer said.
Linda, a sweet guitar playing girl, came up to his nostrils and tried hard to kiss him. He took her hands off his waist and winked at her.
' Ada will be mad at you', he whispered helplessly.
'Komolafe, I love you; we can just be friends with benefits', Linda tenderly proposed.
Komolafe took off his ear - piece , shook hands with the producer and shut the slouchy door of the stuffy studio against himself. He walked into the cascading grace of the golden Sun.
'Am home !' He whispered into the ears of Ada who was fast asleep. She raised her neat eyelids, kissed him and pointed at the black flask on the mason wooden table; describing its content with her low voice.
Komolafe sat on the chair at the mid point of the room and gulped it with dire impatience.
She raised her legs , sprang up on her feet and sat on his feet. She smelt the Cologne and detected the lip stick stains on the collar of his turquoise shirt. Her eyebrows were scattered and her face grew long. Komolafe was still busy spooning his food when she took it off him and bathed him with it. He dripped of rice, beans and salad. He stood dumfounded and quickly went into the shower to wash himself and ran through the tiny passage to the other room; sat on the bed and searched for eye ointment to quell his peppery eyes in amusement.
She followed him and beat him with everything her hands could find. He was still startled. He bashed his head against the wall and tore her own blouse. She pounced on him, zipped down his trouser , and tucked his into hers. She danced with tears on him. And when he came..., she dragged him off her bed and flung him to the vast street alongside his belongings.
He laid confused. Lost.
He packed himself up and went straight to the studio after all attempts to console her and address the issue was abortive.
Ada stared at the Newscaster absent mindedly.
Komolafe had made a shipwreck of her life, she thought to herself. Something beeped close to her, in between the sofa. It was Komolafe's handset. He forgot it.
Ada had sent him a long text of how she made all attempts for him to love her and how he had made her feel cheap, small and less attractive. She wished him well and prayed she was in the shoe of his girlfriend and how she hoped his girlfriend would treat him as well as she would have. She ended the text with a farewell and love emoji.
Linda checked the time the text came in and noticed it was 15minutes before Komolafe stepped into the house - 5:15pm.
She wiped her tears and loathed herself for her idiotic act. She dressed herself up and ran to the studio.
She came into the studio, trembling as she heard his pain strewn voice. She hugged him from behind and they both wept. He still loves her and it was same on her part.
™Fireflies&Bumblebees
©Tom
Saturday, 28 July 2018
Friday, 27 July 2018
Old good friends are gold
Sade sat lonely on the red sofa
outside their verandah; she drew a long hiss and released it in a dragging staccato.
She rose and sat down again, fuming. She wiped her face and sniffed like a
child, who just lost her beautiful doll.
She and her best friend, Sadetu,
just had a terrible brawl over her heartthrob, Segun. Many feared the brawl had
surely brought an end to their unbreakable friendship.
Sade and Sadetu had been best of
friends since Sunday school days. Sade had missed several lessons and had been
threatened by her father, Elder Abe, not to fail the exam. Elder Abe was a man after God’s own heart, an
engineer of good repute and also a disciplinarian. Sade had arrived early
enough for the exams and inadvertently sat behind Sadetu.
Sade whispered at Sadetu.
Sadetu allowed her peep the
answers. They both did well in the exam. Sadetu came first while Sade came second.
Elder Abe spoke well of her performance and encouraged their friendship.
Sade bumped into a lanky fellow,
Segun, on her way to the children’s department to pick her nephew. Segun’s
teeth shone like stars and his eyes were glossy. She was struck by the depth of his voice. His baritone
voice, strum certain chords on the strings of her heart. She quickened her steps
out of his sight and bumped into a naughty deaconess. The deaconess chided her
careless walk and waved her out of her way.
Sade sniffed at her rude submission
and stomped to the church parking lot to report the nosy deaconess to her
father. Elder Abe gave her a cursory look and waved her into the car. She looked up at the old church clock and snorted.
Sade thought about Segun all day
long. His well carved beards and tensile eye-lashes; pressed her soul with sinister
admiration.
She spoke well of Segun to Sadetu.
Sadetu was flummoxed and advised her to be
discreet.
She went to meet Segun at a popular
bar behind a Catholic seminary. He already gulped 3 bottles of “33” Export
Lager beer. Segun was smitten with her intelligence and decorum. He was kept at
sea at her deft use of words. He invited her to his house.
Sade flung her legs out of the creaking
bed and quickly dressed herself up. She was shy and scrambled for the tissue
paper on the left side of the compartment.
Segun grabbed his glass of “33” Export Lager
beer and gulped it till the glass was empty.
She came into the room and stared
at him with mild trepidation and uncertainty. She felt awkward about her
untamed hormones. She laid her hands on the bottle of “33” Export Lager beer
and rubbed her palms around it. She examined the fizzling content, ran her
index finger across the prints on the bottle and heaved. She poured herself
some beer and then sipped with due diligence.
‘O, you drink beer?’ Segun asked,
startled.
‘I only sip smooth, finely brewed
beer’, she giggled.
‘Have some more’, he insisted.
She laughed, nozzled up his jaw
and gave him a departing soft kiss and whispered something indiscreet into his
ears.
Sade caught the door knob and immersed
herself in the drizzling rays of the golden Sunlight.
Sadetu quizzed Sade about her movements.
She pleaded that Sadetu come see Segun with her.
v
The cloud was a bit misty but
breezy. Sade and Sadetu sat close to each other at the same bar where
Segun first sat with Sade. He came in with his
friends and was awe-struck by the hypnotizing eyes of Sadetu. He was trapped in
the moment and forgot to leave her hands until Sade had to slap his hand off
Sadetu’s brittle palm. The atmosphere was sunk in awkward silence. Then, Sade
tore the silence with her order for chilled bottles of beer.
‘Bar man, 4 bottles of “33” Export
lager beer’, she jeered.
Segun gave them a good treat and Sadetu
quizzed Segun about Sade and when he was going to come see her family. Her
question was interrupted by the comic banters of the friends of Segun. One of
Segun’s hilarious friends, Bode, asked for Sadetu’s Instagram handle. She gave
him. Sadetu sipped her glass of beer and nudged Sade that it was time to go.
Segun objected but Sadetu pleaded that they had to leave if he wanted their
friendship not to be nullified by Elder Abe.
Segun stared at Sadetu with
salacious interest.
He later sent her a direct message
on Instagram professing his love for her. Sadetu was startled and asked if he
wanted to ruin her friendship with Sade. He cajoled her and convinced her that
Sade was desperate about him and was crowding him. Segun invited her to a date.
Sadetu invited Sade to the same date but asked her to come an hour later
without giving her the details.
Sade’s whatsapp messages to Sadetu were not
dropping. She became pensive and ran to the venue sent to her by Sadetu. She
recognized the house and flung the door open and saw Segun, fast asleep and Sadetu
wiping her face with a white towel. She yelled and ran away. Sadetu ran after her.
Sade told her off and asked her never to come around her again. She threw
stones and sands and sticks at Sadetu.
Sadetu sent Sade the screen shots
of all the chats she had with Segun.
Sade was still crying on the sofa when she
read all the chats and watched the video of what transpired in the room. Her
eyes were swollen with tears. She called Segun, he didn’t pick. Sade ran to Sadetu’s
house and thanked her for preserving their friendship. She took her out and treated
her to some bottles of ”33” Export Lager beer, and a bowl of fish pepper soup. They
recounted all the events and wiped the tears on the cheek of each other.
Written by - OLOYEDE MICHAEL TAIWO
Instagram @oloyedetom
Sunday, 11 June 2017
Texture of grief
The texture of grief.
In her subtle search for sophistication and something more,
she was bitten by the creepy wasp of the enthralling internet,
Then she knew her soul is being sold to things words can't imagine:
The good and the wild.
She rant on impulse.
Vanity spat its venom on her skin as goosebumps,
Less likes on her pops make her smiles halt ;
leaving her joy on a sad cause,
Her happiness now hinges on mega bytes;
Your admonition on her post to bury her milkshake encrusted gold in honor, she disdainfully bites,
Your sincere comments on her wayward projectiles leave threats and spiteful remarks on your wall;
She took off her elegant covering and sold her security and value for a piece of shame.
Her soul became a bin of societal litters,
Everyone with a kobo can now lick her,
To hop and hump your bed for the wads make her tinder;
Drowned in brown bottles;
She became the sepulchre of unwanted seeds,
She became the refuse dump of contraceptives
The signature of greed,
Her bags are notched with dysentery;
Trotting unregistered colored cars round the megacity to nibble her mega chickens,
All she sought was that life in Utopia,
Just like hazelnut on bloated cookies ;
it came crashing and crumbled.
She got the apparitions of her inglorious grasps for the wind lurk around her thin shoulders and long velvet cladding,
All she wanted was to come online and spice the timelines;
But the skeletons of her nude and messy drops oftentimes pummels her slothful pulse.
To have led such a forlorn life of incurable thirst and want, is to have felt the texture of grief
🙅🏻♂
©fireflies and bumble bees
™Tom
In her subtle search for sophistication and something more,
she was bitten by the creepy wasp of the enthralling internet,
Then she knew her soul is being sold to things words can't imagine:
The good and the wild.
She rant on impulse.
Vanity spat its venom on her skin as goosebumps,
Less likes on her pops make her smiles halt ;
leaving her joy on a sad cause,
Her happiness now hinges on mega bytes;
Your admonition on her post to bury her milkshake encrusted gold in honor, she disdainfully bites,
Your sincere comments on her wayward projectiles leave threats and spiteful remarks on your wall;
She took off her elegant covering and sold her security and value for a piece of shame.
Her soul became a bin of societal litters,
Everyone with a kobo can now lick her,
To hop and hump your bed for the wads make her tinder;
Drowned in brown bottles;
She became the sepulchre of unwanted seeds,
She became the refuse dump of contraceptives
The signature of greed,
Her bags are notched with dysentery;
Trotting unregistered colored cars round the megacity to nibble her mega chickens,
All she sought was that life in Utopia,
Just like hazelnut on bloated cookies ;
it came crashing and crumbled.
She got the apparitions of her inglorious grasps for the wind lurk around her thin shoulders and long velvet cladding,
All she wanted was to come online and spice the timelines;
But the skeletons of her nude and messy drops oftentimes pummels her slothful pulse.
To have led such a forlorn life of incurable thirst and want, is to have felt the texture of grief
🙅🏻♂
©fireflies and bumble bees
™Tom
Sunday, 4 June 2017
Phew!
Epitaph
Boom!
Like shackles strewn on a might man for doom
Puff!
Ears drooling of wools and soul in mortality's cuffs
Phew!
Dreams infested with boils as darkness drew
Spits!
This pitch black pit of void and foil refused the sun to have its haven lit.
TOM.
This mind leaks ...........
Boom!
Like shackles strewn on a might man for doom
Puff!
Ears drooling of wools and soul in mortality's cuffs
Phew!
Dreams infested with boils as darkness drew
Spits!
This pitch black pit of void and foil refused the sun to have its haven lit.
TOM.
This mind leaks ...........
Tuesday, 30 May 2017
Empty hands
' First, I took first '...
Mama held my hands high and swayed my report sheet like a duck gracefully glides on water
I barged into his corner but he was not there...
I stared at his portrait . His fine stub and clean shave spat his several lessons on cleanliness on my slate
My twin tower of my pride and confidence diametrically caved
My sophomore years were years alone
I watched men hunched by their kids
I searched right and left in hope of his blazing white collar that echoes his amiable presence.
But Mama filled both parts.
She joggled her work shifts and the need to care for me.
Sometimes , I look out and spoke to his absence; create his effigy:
I draw his own very frame , plant him a moustache and redress his stubs.
I wanted him to come and speak those words fathers speak to their sons.
Words that convey maps, the shape of stars and the linings of the galaxies to the ecstasy of a curious boy.
And now I became a man.
Never had the privilege of cuddling him.
Have him pat my back when I excel in my class,
Or have him cheer me up when I fall in the attempt to scale the hurdles of life...
On this very day I wanted to ask him all the questions in my heart;
He already kicked the bucket.
Tom👻
Mama held my hands high and swayed my report sheet like a duck gracefully glides on water
I barged into his corner but he was not there...
I stared at his portrait . His fine stub and clean shave spat his several lessons on cleanliness on my slate
My twin tower of my pride and confidence diametrically caved
My sophomore years were years alone
I watched men hunched by their kids
I searched right and left in hope of his blazing white collar that echoes his amiable presence.
But Mama filled both parts.
She joggled her work shifts and the need to care for me.
Sometimes , I look out and spoke to his absence; create his effigy:
I draw his own very frame , plant him a moustache and redress his stubs.
I wanted him to come and speak those words fathers speak to their sons.
Words that convey maps, the shape of stars and the linings of the galaxies to the ecstasy of a curious boy.
And now I became a man.
Never had the privilege of cuddling him.
Have him pat my back when I excel in my class,
Or have him cheer me up when I fall in the attempt to scale the hurdles of life...
On this very day I wanted to ask him all the questions in my heart;
He already kicked the bucket.
Tom👻
Deep
Deeper,
Sharply curved like brooding palm fronds ;
Her accent brawls high like raucous billows of a raging wind,
Poise so proper
Pain knitted behind the soul of her feet,
Life got her spines propped against the walls of gagged expression.
Her own voice she sniffed like a dog petrified by its own bark.
She stood on the stage of solitude and rehearsed into the void...
She knelt and wept , bruised herself with the detritus of the fallen mirror and wailed:
I am woman ; I am not the weakness of manliness.
My face ain't for your fist cuffs to stab like like the abhorrent flashes of neon lights, nor my belly for your feisty punch,
but my back ,your fingers to moistly tend,
my spines your arms to lift;
and my torso your palms should nurse in strides, as a skilled brick man lays shiny cobble stones .
Tom👻
Sharply curved like brooding palm fronds ;
Her accent brawls high like raucous billows of a raging wind,
Poise so proper
Pain knitted behind the soul of her feet,
Life got her spines propped against the walls of gagged expression.
Her own voice she sniffed like a dog petrified by its own bark.
She stood on the stage of solitude and rehearsed into the void...
She knelt and wept , bruised herself with the detritus of the fallen mirror and wailed:
I am woman ; I am not the weakness of manliness.
My face ain't for your fist cuffs to stab like like the abhorrent flashes of neon lights, nor my belly for your feisty punch,
but my back ,your fingers to moistly tend,
my spines your arms to lift;
and my torso your palms should nurse in strides, as a skilled brick man lays shiny cobble stones .
Tom👻
Sepia
She veered off the rail of elegance like a cookie cartwheeled by sinister flat tubes of wantonness
She went on and on
Until,
Like a pack of virulently shuffled card in the numb numbness of the motherless night,
Her gait crumbled.....
She was the queen of my heart but the King of all my sorrows....
Tom🤕🏄🏽
She went on and on
Until,
Like a pack of virulently shuffled card in the numb numbness of the motherless night,
Her gait crumbled.....
She was the queen of my heart but the King of all my sorrows....
Tom🤕🏄🏽
Festooned
She ran her shrunken fingers across the stains on the apron of her effort ,
Like a child in a rare admiration of dirt's glamour,
She dipped her crumpled thumb into her sooted tongue and licked the juice of grief ...
She wondered why her frantic efforts at life and enterprise never earned his emotional comfort nor his conscientious goodwill...
Nothing has changed except hope...
It appears cloudier...
©broken verses
™Tom
Like a child in a rare admiration of dirt's glamour,
She dipped her crumpled thumb into her sooted tongue and licked the juice of grief ...
She wondered why her frantic efforts at life and enterprise never earned his emotional comfort nor his conscientious goodwill...
Nothing has changed except hope...
It appears cloudier...
©broken verses
™Tom
Sunday, 29 January 2017
COWRIES philo baba
Radiant cowries of the esteemed African pride What a wonder at your prudence
As a virtuous bride
For centuries, you were a potent economic catalyst
Measuring the value of exotic wares on behalf of our kind ancestors
Your skilled painting in crystal milk by nature
Gives you a cosy look
A symbol of peace, respect and sincerity,
Immersed in moderation
When haggling the cost of wares
with the invisible hands in splenetic cum jaunty interactions.
Mindful of the gain of each party in the raucous discourse.
Distant from greed, extortion or economic vice apparitions.
Your weighty size
Emboldens your image and stand
Amongst numerous currencies of the western world.
Your glistening skin and serrated button,
encrypts the world in speechless glue at your sassy outfit
Your inbuilt gift of mesmerising versatility in purpose
Diversity,
Declares you a wonderful socioeconomic device by nature to several merchants.
You give lustre to the tunics of hunters
And
Exquisite antiquity to the modern day fashion
Kids are kept at sea at your glance
Elders pay homage to your ruggedness and durability
The world salutes your unique frame
Held in the palms of our agelong descents,yet, you remain the same.
You are indeed an ancient seed of awesome merchandize and ritzy fashion.
Thursday, 8 December 2016
Love nwa tintin
Her translucent eyes to my ears whisper,
tales of nimble affection
Weaving aesthetic paradise of happiness in my heart
Like the triangular draft of a spider
I see your eyes
The twinkles are brighter than the thin sparkles of the shooting stars
I wonder why my soul never ceased into them to pry
You are one of a kind
in your heart the thread of tenderness I find
With adventure your world I will roam
Till your pulse flip and pause in Rome.
Your kiss I linger for lease,
A thousand years at least
In your eyes are hidden the constellation of stars
An end to all worrisome and dark emotional scars
My pain you heal
My soul your radiance daily steals.
Be the tender Baobab tree on which I lean
Take me to the ecstatic sphere where passions gleams.
I will love you till the ends of days,
In your embrace, I will have
my coolest stay.
I love you. @philo baba
tales of nimble affection
Weaving aesthetic paradise of happiness in my heart
Like the triangular draft of a spider
I see your eyes
The twinkles are brighter than the thin sparkles of the shooting stars
I wonder why my soul never ceased into them to pry
You are one of a kind
in your heart the thread of tenderness I find
With adventure your world I will roam
Till your pulse flip and pause in Rome.
Your kiss I linger for lease,
A thousand years at least
In your eyes are hidden the constellation of stars
An end to all worrisome and dark emotional scars
My pain you heal
My soul your radiance daily steals.
Be the tender Baobab tree on which I lean
Take me to the ecstatic sphere where passions gleams.
I will love you till the ends of days,
In your embrace, I will have
my coolest stay.
I love you. @philo baba
Monday, 5 December 2016
Poet tree
poet treeBy Oloyede Michael Taiwo
I sat on the wit of a poet tree
I read lines in pages of poetic letters in threes
On several burning notes
we agree
Poetry like a pear tree
We pick rhymes for free
Our clothed nakedness we lucidly see
The nakedness of nothingness
The nothingness of existence
Our persistence in existence
The essence of existence
The sense in existence.
I chew one tenth of sane tenses that interpret the essence of lean sentences
I bit the fruit on the poet-tree
In chapters and verses
I marked oxymoron on my speech tree
Antithesis I chew for a gift
My pulse less understood by morons
The voice of sarcasm became clarion
The axe of pain is oxy
The hook of forgiveness is moron
I sat on the trunk of pun
It lulls my bumbum with fun
I swung next to paradox
Like a good father does
Bestowing kindness that opens doors
On the poet-tree;
I and wisdom had tea
Knowledge obliged me
Understanding took me to fish
I designed this three on peachtree
I met this three
On a fair tree
On a poet’s tree
My life from the regrets of yesterday became free
On the poet-tree
Swirls the personification of poetry
@PHILO BABA
Friday, 2 December 2016
December
Trimester of a forlorn maid,
Unkempt symphony of a tattered Nirvana maid,
Love within the lattice of your tiny lips got
lovingly made,
December,
Beneath the slothful watch of your wet ship, sharply caressing tender turbulence,
and assuaging mushy whispers of the solemn sea,
I got intensely laid.
@Philo Baba
Thursday, 24 November 2016
WAITED IN VAIN
You came in an angelic frame,
Set this soul aflame,
Your lipstick echoed my name,
Set me on cause like a game,
love you made girdle my aim,
and my antelope of philandering I maimed
,
In my portrait of love you stood carved with the strings of my sinews and veins,
Keeping the memory of you in me as its only celebrity of fame
I willed your personality as the emblazoned character on the epitaph visible on my grave.
This heart meandering your ludus of flesh and fantasies grew and trained.
Even in winters,
The memories of your touch like an ivorian leaf never withers,
Now I stink like a prisoner in jail,
The agony of the never flowing water in pail,
Separated from the romance of the seas and oceans in Niger
And their tumultuous sound during foreplay in wales.
This nimble heart pumps sick and frail
For this news of your broad laps aired by Jane;
Your amorous engagements freighted in human planes.
The ashes of your love shall be buried in caves of restless pains
Instituted in spain
In the mirage of love so pure and sane
I waited all in vain.
@PHILO BABA.
Set this soul aflame,
Your lipstick echoed my name,Set me on cause like a game,
love you made girdle my aim,
and my antelope of philandering I maimed
,
In my portrait of love you stood carved with the strings of my sinews and veins,
Keeping the memory of you in me as its only celebrity of fame
I willed your personality as the emblazoned character on the epitaph visible on my grave.
This heart meandering your ludus of flesh and fantasies grew and trained.
Even in winters,
The memories of your touch like an ivorian leaf never withers,
Now I stink like a prisoner in jail,
The agony of the never flowing water in pail,
Separated from the romance of the seas and oceans in Niger
And their tumultuous sound during foreplay in wales.
This nimble heart pumps sick and frail
For this news of your broad laps aired by Jane;
Your amorous engagements freighted in human planes.
The ashes of your love shall be buried in caves of restless pains
Instituted in spain
In the mirage of love so pure and sane
I waited all in vain.
Wednesday, 16 November 2016
I MET NIGHTFALL
I
met nightfall,
in a huge, conflagration dusty hall .
she got eyes as owls and grins of moonlight;
she got eyes as owls and grins of moonlight;
She whispered darkness, crawled on limp limbs marked with scaly webs.
She smell of sour oil and recurrent mares,
She breathes brim-stones and fire, pestered on by fiery locusts of hades,
she leaned on broken tripods of bad luck for blind strangers,
she cocoons in fear and brokenness
She is the despicable taskmaster at the valley of the shadows of death,
She faintly fizzles like an expired syrup at the lingering of the high spirited sparks of the redemptive dawn,
I met nightfall,
I bent her crusty wings and my eyelids rose tall,
Sunday, 13 November 2016
Isle of lying mirrors
Our names beg for ancestral validation
we seek accreditation from blonde tongues,
We prance in foreign shoes to navigate our native paths.
In the isle of lying mirrors,
we intermeddle with assorted wisdom to live in snow,
and spite the cracked whistling wind that hoists the flag of Harmattan.
In the isle of lying mirrors
We frolick the mirror to reflect a white face on a dark neck.
We relish the luxury of slavery in lost lands of fantasies to the warmth of history,
Our misery is posterity left bemused in the game of nomenclature etymology.
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Sunday, 30 October 2016
I don't know my name.
I came through the dusty, wind suppressed desert; far away.
I got my footprints burnt on the hot particles of earth-grains,
I seek this boisterous but lonely city with no name.
Each pilgrim met, was startled at my stutter- less description of such an ostentatious city; spellbound and earnestly awaits its name,so with kindness, point the way.
'The city has no name' ,from my lips escaped.
Disappointed, they swallow some sun flies,shook their head care freely, and walked away.
The constellation of stars danced in my eyes when a pilgrim attempted to tell the name: If they could tell the name of this city with no name.
Everybody asked me to ask somebody.
Somebody knew someone from such a realm called nobody.
I sprawl like a traditional adire mat on which a maiden kneels betrothed to uncertainty as she exits the peninsula of tolerated childhood fairy tales:
Tales of a happy sojourn into that love clustered euphoria of fulfillment,
into the vacuum of personal space and spacelessness.
Somebody said the city lies somewhere, hidden everywhere.
Nobody said somewhere is nowhere.
Could nowhere be somewhere?
I met the last of an unknown gloss bearded kind with arms akimbo.
He knew this pristine, flamboyant city without a name,
He, engrossed in my story, ecstatically asked for my name.
As I was about to enthusiastically spit out a form of constructed alphabets,
My memory fell apart,
I don't know my name.
He ate dusts in milliseconds, sniffed my floating brain , screamed in disgust and flew away.
I still don't know my name.
Sunday, 9 October 2016
She has a next
Love skipped this memory like a forgotten league
Lust waylay
me with its short course armory of lubidiny
I hit my white injection needle on six times three ladies
All came out for a play without shame of unaffectionate randy revelry
Love now parades my soul with drums of impending tragedy.
Tragedy of the heart lamenting without tears.
This soul is afraid of getting a fraction for its whole
A fraction of beans for a whole bean sack.
I gave my best for the least of her affection
I was crucified on her tree of inordinate selection
She asked for gold
Told her my dreams will yield treasures fearsomely bold
My hays she scorned
Asked if I could hawk corn
Tore my heart from the backside meat of its affectionate hollows; snapping the veins and arteries and gave it to lust to swallow.
My heart in bitter grief had its nest.
The pain of knowing she has a next.
My worries unearthed from the deepest layers of thick assumed rejection
I withdrew the memories of fun in my head she drew
I lowered all graffitis of her lips ; hips , beads and fun skits.
In the template of my heart I printed her beauty as ashes
Blew wild and tormented kiss to her being.
I shiver as I kissed a score of bottles to her memory in demise.
Her frame yet has its verdant lashes on my brain.
I wheeled her memory far into endless distance with a disgust branded barrow.
Mnemonics of love in my heart for tales I keep.
In this being love skipped its heart for a sabbatical leave.
Never to return until the master wills.
Lust waylay
me with its short course armory of lubidiny
I hit my white injection needle on six times three ladies
All came out for a play without shame of unaffectionate randy revelry
Love now parades my soul with drums of impending tragedy.
Tragedy of the heart lamenting without tears.
This soul is afraid of getting a fraction for its whole
A fraction of beans for a whole bean sack.
I gave my best for the least of her affection
I was crucified on her tree of inordinate selection
She asked for gold
Told her my dreams will yield treasures fearsomely bold
My hays she scorned
Asked if I could hawk corn
Tore my heart from the backside meat of its affectionate hollows; snapping the veins and arteries and gave it to lust to swallow.
My heart in bitter grief had its nest.
The pain of knowing she has a next.
My worries unearthed from the deepest layers of thick assumed rejection
I withdrew the memories of fun in my head she drew
I lowered all graffitis of her lips ; hips , beads and fun skits.
In the template of my heart I printed her beauty as ashes
Blew wild and tormented kiss to her being.
I shiver as I kissed a score of bottles to her memory in demise.
Her frame yet has its verdant lashes on my brain.
I wheeled her memory far into endless distance with a disgust branded barrow.
Mnemonics of love in my heart for tales I keep.
In this being love skipped its heart for a sabbatical leave.
Never to return until the master wills.
Tuesday, 4 October 2016
SHARK TALE
The volume swallows my throw
as the crowd overwhelms a miniature
Several rotten heads
And faded bones parade their death munched face
For a wanderer’s pictures
Hello, inspector shark
You rule this coast
Ate men into ghost
Their blood you sprinkle as toast
Several ships you tumbled
And the carcass you towed
Have got a coin
Hook to my loins
This ocean I seek to purloin
The coin my mascot
To excavate treasures of worth
The ocean winks with a sinister
Bids me to come thither
I preSs on its bidding
Forewarned by
Tales of stranded sailors
Fancifully Un-attired tailors
Drowned palms forged of golden
Couture
Yet, the resources in this coast I want to capture
Life a deep ocean
Sharks as circumstances of dissuading culture
I will plunge into this ocean
Leap without looking
Bid me not to look before I leap
When I look; my strength skips
But I will watch
So as the sharks’ jaws to clutch
Blood may sprinkle from my vein so much
Peace is worth a fight as such
These treasures of light and sweet smiles
I will fight to have them fall in lines.
Hope last dies
Though toss tough like contoured dice
Hope grants life twice;
In the nexus of broken spirit
Hope loud cries
as the crowd overwhelms a miniature
Several rotten heads
And faded bones parade their death munched face
For a wanderer’s pictures
Hello, inspector shark
You rule this coast
Ate men into ghost
Their blood you sprinkle as toast
Several ships you tumbled
And the carcass you towed
Have got a coin
Hook to my loins
This ocean I seek to purloin
The coin my mascot
To excavate treasures of worth
The ocean winks with a sinister
Bids me to come thither
I preSs on its bidding
Forewarned by
Tales of stranded sailors
Fancifully Un-attired tailors
Drowned palms forged of golden
Couture
Yet, the resources in this coast I want to capture
Life a deep ocean
Sharks as circumstances of dissuading culture
I will plunge into this ocean
Leap without looking
Bid me not to look before I leap
When I look; my strength skips
But I will watch
So as the sharks’ jaws to clutch
Blood may sprinkle from my vein so much
Peace is worth a fight as such
These treasures of light and sweet smiles
I will fight to have them fall in lines.
Hope last dies
Though toss tough like contoured dice
Hope grants life twice;
In the nexus of broken spirit
Hope loud cries
Monday, 3 October 2016
SWEET MOTHER
Like a lump in her womb
Was my seed in her tube
Washing her skin into mottled pigment of St.louis cube
Invoking amidst her being a strange feud
As the odd presence of a teetotaller in a pub
Her feet clogged with the weight of beach sands
Swinging her waist in unfair balance
Her mouth wane
Like murky streams in holes
cut-out in cones
Insipid like the savour of metal bones
Her words in slurry mime
Sticky as reptilian slime
My birth an awaited grace
Shutting her face
In the theatre of bizarre fate
Clock ticks slowly
Moments drag excessively
The pangs of death shrill loudly
Darkness crest her shoulders
Weakness she shuddered
Her eyes flapping like papery shutters
A form within troubles for the world to see
In a minute the ethereal world she sojourned
The energy of bliss in tears to summon
In her head were sparks of devastating lightning
Submerging her world in ferocious imageries
As I tore through her tissues
Into the hands in queue
Yet her silver – cord
Launched forth my umbilical cord
Like the letting of rope to a kite to soar
Her life against death’s stake
To hold my fragile frame
All just stood in awry gaze
As in the world I took my place
Of her pains to have me stay
she never complained
But
A smile and kiss
For all the agony in wait.
Was my seed in her tube
Washing her skin into mottled pigment of St.louis cube
Invoking amidst her being a strange feud
As the odd presence of a teetotaller in a pub
Her feet clogged with the weight of beach sands
Swinging her waist in unfair balance
Her mouth wane
Like murky streams in holes
cut-out in cones
Insipid like the savour of metal bones
Her words in slurry mime
Sticky as reptilian slime
My birth an awaited grace
Shutting her face
In the theatre of bizarre fate
Clock ticks slowly
Moments drag excessively
The pangs of death shrill loudly
Darkness crest her shoulders
Weakness she shuddered
Her eyes flapping like papery shutters
A form within troubles for the world to see
In a minute the ethereal world she sojourned
The energy of bliss in tears to summon
In her head were sparks of devastating lightning
Submerging her world in ferocious imageries
As I tore through her tissues
Into the hands in queue
Yet her silver – cord
Launched forth my umbilical cord
Like the letting of rope to a kite to soar
Her life against death’s stake
To hold my fragile frame
All just stood in awry gaze
As in the world I took my place
Of her pains to have me stay
she never complained
But
A smile and kiss
For all the agony in wait.
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