Category: POETRY

These our hands, five fingers, Two palms, twin evil bringers; The creation of God from earth. Earth? So they are mere dirt? Earth perish at the hands of Earth? This...

[caption id="attachment_52" align="aligncenter" width="133"] The shackles, the weight[/caption] These yearnings of my flesh - Ever so strong ever so fresh - With which I battle everyday, While I work, while...

[caption id="attachment_623" align="aligncenter" width="181"] Save me Lord[/caption] Is my greedy heart shackled and sold To growing coins of burnished gold? Now the sounds of crowded coins Stirs tunes of pleasure...

[caption id="attachment_616" align="aligncenter" width="248"] Mummy Adeduntan[/caption] Though I curled not In the warmth Of your blessed womb, Nor sucked Life’s juice From your breasts, I call you mummy! Even though...

[caption id="attachment_35" align="aligncenter" width="300"] In The Laps of Delilah[/caption] In the laps of Delilah, Where pleasures abound, There the pits are And there snares are found. There in her flawless...

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="249"] Eyo[/caption] Eyo! The sun shone Beside the bright moon On the night That his shrill cry Swallowed The cricket's symphony. Eyo! Drops of rain Drummed on...

[caption id="attachment_597" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Happy Birthday Thief[/caption] Did your father jump with boundless joy when you emerged in bloody hands? Were there smiles as your bloody cord was that night...

[caption id="attachment_583" align="aligncenter" width="263"] HEAR, GODDESS OF LIGHT[/caption] Can a heart melt Like frozen wax Lost in awe Of a candle's flame? But you are Unlike the wax consuming flame....