Tag: poetry
Poetry || Yearning
Famished pages and arid ink
are what I'm left with
I want you. Thoroughly.
Deplete, replenish my paucity
Fill my emptiness
Make sober this drunkenness
You took more than a piece of me
With you the day…
Poetry || When Love Happens
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This is a poetry collaboration between myself and Alabi Seyi, another amiable poet whose works are worth viewing. Kindly check out his blog and rate us on a scale of five please? Thank you…
Poetry || No Aunty
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No aunty.
Not every guy that is your friend that you must date. Learn the concept of emotiona…
Poetry || Void
These words are heavy to pen
Perhaps if I slumber it would be easy then
And those around me can't see
There's something missing
Can't explain it
Nor contain it
Perhaps if I wore it on my sleev…
Poetry || Tale About Books
Diving into an ocean of words
Fishing for puns
Sailing on a voyage of writers
Experience that matters
Books are eye openers
Light for the lost
Many stumble in the darkness
Of the path of igno…
Poetry || Heart Beat
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Like the native drums
Booming loud
Conquering the silence hither
Hit by the hard force
Booming again and aga…
Poetry || The Battle
The bitter pangs
Pangs of deception
Filtering through our bellies
Almost making us retch
Because we had been deceived again
We had fallen for their sugar-coated lies
Diving in head first
And it did …
Poetry || Shortsighted
Many have eyes but do not see
A couple of these things
Converging light passing through my retina
Maybe I'm just another nobody in Nigeria
I see pain and suffering on some days
I see beneath your…
Poetry || Judgemental
How funny it seems
To judge other people's sins
And appraise others
Because of their wealth and looks
What goes on in personal lives
You have no idea
What pain they go through
Can you really see t…
Poetry || Akanmu
Akanmu,
Like the moth which danced its way
Its way into the alluring flames
You will dance the dance of shame
You have spat on the four letter word
Said you don't believe in it
Akanmu
You have fo…