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
Thursday, 8 December 2016
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.
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