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I AM NOT A POET by Tukur Ridwan Ishola

<body><div class&equals;"booster-block booster-read-block">&NewLine; <div class&equals;"twp-read-time">&NewLine; &Tab;<i class&equals;"booster-icon twp-clock"><&sol;i> <span>Read Time&colon;<&sol;span>1 Minute&comma; 41 Second <&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine; <&sol;div><p><&sol;p>is it because i steal slates off tales<br>&NewLine;scribbled by scribes of ages not stale<br>&NewLine;which drew them to the world as sages&semi;<br>&NewLine;and i claimed what they owned<br>&NewLine;only to be known and renowned<br>&NewLine;as a one from their homes&comma;<br>&NewLine;that you now call me a poet&quest;<br>&NewLine;&period;<br>&NewLine;if i am a poet&comma;<br>&NewLine;why not i being able to wheel your will<br>&NewLine;to have the throb of your heart brewed<br>&NewLine;by strikes on drums from my witty hands<br>&NewLine;when i play your feet these rhythms<br>&NewLine;from my wide pitched vocal orifice&comma;<br>&NewLine;in fine falsettos and trimmed tenors&comma;<br>&NewLine;as you sing me back sultry sopranos&quest;<br>&NewLine;&period;<br>&NewLine;why not i being apt and adept<br>&NewLine;enough for you as the butterfly<br>&NewLine;blooming your petals with my pollen<br>&NewLine;and being the sun that torches<br>&NewLine;your garden of glamour and glitz&comma;<br>&NewLine;and the rain that whet your roots<br>&NewLine;into glees of growth in their youth<br>&NewLine;and make your frail floral heart<br>&NewLine;grow fonder&quest;<br>&NewLine;&period;<br>&NewLine;why not i being the metaphor<br>&NewLine;of cones for your sweet scoop<br>&NewLine;of various flavors in differing hues&comma;<br>&NewLine;for you to have a taste&comma; and lick<br>&NewLine;off the creamy love my ice have<br>&NewLine;for the million cells of your taste buds<br>&NewLine;like my lips crave your supple skin<br>&NewLine;when you ooze the smell of light<br>&NewLine;through the tunnel of my nostrils&quest;<br>&NewLine;&period;<br>&NewLine;why not i being the symbolic bee<br>&NewLine;that would fly on a gliding spree<br>&NewLine;in merry-go-rounds and carousels<br>&NewLine;to hover over and around your honey<br>&NewLine;and preserve your addictive sweetness<br>&NewLine;with my protective honeycombs&quest;<br>&NewLine;&period;<br>&NewLine;until i can delight in the victory<br>&NewLine;that would epilogue the mystery<br>&NewLine;of running my star-struck race<br>&NewLine;through the lines of my quill-ink<br>&NewLine;towards honing every bit of you<br>&NewLine;in the grasp of my charming poesy<br>&NewLine;like a regal owns his royalties<br>&NewLine;…that you may call me a poet&period;<br>&NewLine;&period;<br>&NewLine;but for now&comma; i am not a poet<br>&NewLine;………&period;i only enslaved a pen&period;&NewLine;<p><figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;22137" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-22137" style&equals;"width&colon; 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