My baby gave me the world
For two hours
Not actually the entire world
But this beautiful city of ours
Abuja, the grand heart of Nigeria
This State capital of ours
We ascended; up and up and up
Each step taking us higher and higher
To an uplifted view, above us, the skies
Beholding our world
Watching the electrical stars
Struggling to outshine each other
Punctuating the night’s darkness
They cooked and ate
They laughed and played
Read and slept
Touched not and touched
To the various sounds of their televisions
All in the warmth of our imagination
The coolness of the breeze
The sensual Tiv songs and their tease
We descended; floating down as it is
With our minds left in the heat
Of this moment of such visual riches
Victoria Offiong-Moses
6:00pm, April 24, 2009
AJANGBADI WHISPERS
(PART 1)
Tonight I heard whispers of Ajangbadi
The lost world of forgotten intonations
Which many nights sang my soul to sleep
In the gentle arms of quiet night breeze
Pleasurable passions long frozen in time
Defrost in warm memories soaked with pain
Inhaling the sweet lava of molten passion
Coloured in purple red and forbidden hopes
The nights locked our secret rendezvous
Hinting only the voice of a poetic wine
The pleasures that oozed from the dark
Healing the echoes of concealed tears
I still taste the tears of stolen emotions
Tightly wrapped around my fading heartbeats
Dancing on the edge of timeless time
As if time froze and the memories live
Ayoola B. Oke; 9th April 2008, 12:50 am
AJANGBADI WHISPERS
(PART 2)
In a dream you slipped into my arms
I awoke to the reality of you
Innocently asleep in my arms
Even as I remained asleep in yours
Amour not blinded but fast asleep
I dreamt of a beautiful butterfly
Nectared only by a single flower
In the midst of a blooming bouquet
Your lips softly on mine did drink
An elixir Amaretto that feeds amour
Mutually, you from I and I from you
Intoxicating each other with life
Ajangbadi pronounced like Paradise
Fairy tales of untold honeyed dreams
Seen through the wide eyes of innocence
Two beautiful souls peacefully asleep
AJANGBADI WHISPERS
(PART 3)
Amour was born on yesterday’s freshness
When we listened to our hearts in dialogue
Speaking in mysterious silent commune
Content to say all by saying nothing
The rogues would not let us alone
Promises of glamour like a Greek gift
Led you away from our sweet commune
C’est dommage; “Ce sera, sera” my love
Evening slips on the night as a negligee
She looks sexy, transparent and warm
I feel her breath caressing our faces
As we sat on the sand dune next door
“If you could see me now…” as Millie said
Pleading for you not to roam the fields
But if whatever will be will be
Do not hold on to this shade of Amour
2:55am, 11th April 2008
REJECTION
My love is like a grief stricken widow
Mourning the demise of my lonely heart
Mortal was the hurt that came from her bow
The arrow whose tip was a poisonous dart
The power of my bosom speaks no more
And I am a doomed mummified zombie
Unfeeling and lost to viva l’amour
Cursed be the day that you, my eyes did see
Disconsolate winter has seized my soul
My insides are cold and numbed to the core
Bitterness’ bile spews out to play its role
To curse your sweet face with loneliness sore
Yet I cannot curse your cherubic face
Nor hatred find for your elegant grace
As we walked down the road
She spoke a destiny to me
In my wildest imagination my heart leapt
Two eyes sitting on dimpled cheeks?
A dreamy man of dreams
Could I be dreaming or …,
I search her face for a tease
Could it be true or not
As I searched fervently for a glimmer
Sincerity smiled back at me
I dared to hope!
But could he want me for me
Would I just be another conquest
Or just a prized trophy to tell
There I was, my emotions restless like the sea
Tossing and turning by billowing winds
Driven by opposing thoughts of confusion
And my mind relentlessly wanders
In my confusion rays of sanity
Filter through the cloudy haze
To calm my rippling emotions
And bring succour to fulfil
The destiny that was meant to be
Chika Njoku
BIRTH OF CREATION
The Ominous Mind broods over a sea of ideas
Thoughts flame through the expansive firmaments
Interlocking, engaging and creating patterns
Before bursting into words, LET THERE BE LIGHT!
The nature of the Infinitive rejoices
Boundless leaps of rays break loose in joyous hymns
Streaming freely in prisms of the elements
To resurrect the beauties of colours and space
The formless Being commands obedience to flow
Arise and be separate in terraces and hills
Undulating dunes and curving forms in bays
Laced with serpent-rivers, waterfalls and delta ways
The Lord of heavens communes by floating forms
Agitated giants arise in aggressive mien
While from their feet the canvassing earth roams free
Hugging lakes and spawning caves and crevices
Wisdom articulates rooted living greens and browns
Fed from the womb of interlocking terraces
At their feet, lesser vegetation scrubs the dirt
Birthing flowery waves to the host of the skies
The Highest fills the air with sinews of logic
Invisible pathways transverse the realm between
The wind surfers hold a parade of flight skills
Dancing on the living breath of the Almighty God
Righteousness sits on the firmament of firmaments
Decreeing the innocence of forest roamers
The wariness of the prey and its stalking predator
In a choreograph to the music of life and death
The Bellowing Voice that utters all things to be
Spoke life into the strongholds depths of blue and green
And brine drunken philosophers embraced its vastness
Courting and carousing foreshadows of vegetations
The Sovereign decrees destinies of clones of understanding
To mirror his power and majesty of his ominous mind
Behold the prince by which all things are begotten
In the reverberation of simulating appears
Dominion arose from the dusty face of the earth
Endued with powers of cascading intelligence
Rising in the octaves and billows of scented sacrifice
To the stealth and traction that overcomes the world
MAN!
29th August 2008
Ayoola Babatunde Oke
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