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<h5 style="text-align: center;"><em>Eighteen poets and poetry lovers from different parts of the country contributed to this panoramic poetic montage which was borne out of ardent desire to give Valentines Day 2019 celebration a poetic </em>colour<em> and is the first of its kind. </em><em>Enjoy!!!</em></h5>
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<h4>My Love For My Love</h4>
<p>My rose for the spouse I treasure<br>Sparkled I on a glue of miss pleasure<br>Grazing down to the field of lust<br>Only to remember my love for the one I love</p>
<p>Love full of life,<br>Life surrounded with joy,<br>Joyful within my heart,<br>Heart meant for you alone,<br>Alone, you fill my thoughts.</p>
<p>Thoughtful of you all days,<br>Show me love,<br>Love of my life,<br>And make it unflinching.</p>
<p>Hand in hand we held and walked<br>Looking through the straight path<br>We beheld a reverie of green future<br>Where in drinking, we want some more.</p>
<p>More of love sparkling like snowflake<br>Across the bed of bliss where magic unfolds<br>In pools of golden ecstasy — embers rising<br>From our hearts; burning our solitude to rust.</p>
<p>Where else can I go<br>If I don’t visit my ego?<br>What else can I say<br>If don’t hail my seer</p>
<p>á»la aka m, adorned with uli<br>Ede oko m, beautified by spear glass called world<br>The firewood I fetched<br>Beyond Orie market bend<br>Today is 14th February<br>Come on, warm my cold heart</p>
<p>Revel in my love,<br>Let me rejuvenate your vibrancy,<br>Spread a perky red canopy over your skyline,<br>Like dusty red roses scattered on tarmac floor</p>
<p>The love for my love<br>Brings more life than strife,<br>More beautiful than the streets of Bulawayo,<br>Sweeter than a sugary cacao</p>
<p>My love for my love<br>Inexplicably rare, not like the jacarandas of Zimbabwe<br>Or the yellow trumpet that adorns Nigeria<br>A cross dimensional touch</p>
<p>A supernatural rush<br>Superseding the searing intensity of a Moon<br>Crossing diverging lanes and cosmic space<br>A love surreal like wayo</p>
<p>This night too will pass,<br>It will be a memory of fallen leaves,<br>A path of righteous sin<br>Because I kissed your sweet 16.</p>
<p>Shall I call you Ogene?<br>The clap of your twin breasts<br>Resonates the reeling song<br>The spirits couldn’t sing with the wind.</p>
<p>What is as beautiful as your lips?<br>The only path that knows<br>The gate to the temple of sin.</p>
<p>My love for my love<br>Is as the sun in the morn<br>It is as the broom in Osho’s hands<br>It is as the hairs on Wole’s head<br>It is the goose to my bumps<br>The thought of my love<br>My love for my love</p>
<p>The star that sparkles in my heart<br>The shadow that guides my path<br>Lead me not to God’s wrath<br>As I journey with you my love, my heart</p>
<p>Sometimes it lies<br>Sometimes it doesn’t<br>It builds castles and holds her prey in captive<br>There are skulls of fury within it gory portrait<br>It does not sound like you’ve heard it<br>It is either a deceiver or a caresser<br>sometimes love lies also</p>
<p>My love for my love<br>In confessions of undying truth,<br>We live indefinitely but not<br>In one state of existence.</p>
<p>After this life, I will search<br>For you to a hundred worlds<br>To keep tasting the sweet wine<br>Of your rich nectar which makes<br>Beauty native to your being</p>
<p>I will follow you to a thousand<br>Lifetimes to satisfy my longing to<br>Be in your arms and continue feeling the<br>Contours of your exquisite form<br>Which makes you ever alluring.</p>
<p>My body in ice smear<br>The shivers, my teeth clinks<br>Sounding the gongs of love<br>For the taste of your warm<br>Oh how sweet art thou</p>
<p>Love like green leaf<br>Makes life good to live<br>Like water quenching a thirsty throat<br>My heart you keep afloat</p>
<p>Weathering lives stormy weather<br>And toughening me up like leather<br>To make the best use of my time<br>And rule with compassion in my clime.</p>
<p>I will forever treasure love<br>And be as gentle as dove<br>Handling each day with focus<br>And making right my locus</p>
<p>My everyday Valentine your Love Sprung as a tender bud<br>Pure, healthy and full of life<br>Blossoming everday with the</p>
<p>Passage of seasons of life<br>I glow and radiate as a lone<br>Star on a cloudy sky the envy<br>Of love spurned damsels!</p>
<p>Little damsel string round my being..<br>You will be the song on my lips,<br>The rhythm of my pulsating heart,<br>The melody that wiggles my west.</p>
<p>Come…I will proclaim your name<br>Fourteen times, fourteenth day of our communion!<br>I will proclaim your beauty to falling stars;<br>Spread your titillating face above the moon;<br>And my verse, a connoisseur of your endowment.</p>
<p>Love is a fatherless son,<br>reading the tribute of his late father,<br>Under the hurricane rainfall</p>
<p>Love is a bitch<br>especially that of a boy and a girl<br>not too strong to be in love.</p>
<p>I sigh and smile when she’s not at sight<br>We talked and walked a lot<br>Tried to hide and secretly seek<br>I wanted to write but she’s sad<br>I’m void of idea, just sunk</p>
<p>She is already double<br>Though I can’t stop looking for trouble<br>She has got the most beautiful smile<br>I hide behind my door and sing<br>Who wouldn’t want to adore?</p>
<p>Think about my pain in peace<br>Breathing gets to its peak<br>I face it with some smirk<br>Better off with a face full of smile<br>Like the rays of the sun, it shines</p>
<p>She swept me off my foot<br>Left me with the best mood, I’m over the moon.<br>Time passed by<br>A bid of good bye<br>I bet this will never die.</p>
<p>As deep as the oceans<br>As soft as silk<br>As meek as a lamb<br>Is my love for you</p>
<p>Words can’t express my love<br>You are the reason I live<br>My life is meaningless without you<br>Its just like a song without melody</p>
<p>You are my inspiration<br>The life I live, not I that live<br>But you that live in me<br>You are my world</p>
<p>Though I’m weak, yet strong in you<br>Your smiles become my vigour<br>You are my light, my star at night<br>You are my world</p>
<p>How do I explain the wild kisses,<br>Like a fire in a burning furnace<br>ravages my entire spine<br>Each moment I pass you by<br>I need you like a heart needs a beat,<br>No wonder my life is null without you<br>Can you live in me and pay no rent?<br>Oh! My love for my love</p>
<p>What is love that I could not think,<br>Fantasy eludes my reality<br>Shall we rehearse our dream before we tell<br>It speaks from the heart</p>
<p>You are my song<br>My song of love<br>Is like the wind, you can’t see it<br>But you can feel it<br>My love for my love</p>
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<h4>List of contributors:</h4>
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<li>Izunna Okafor</li>
<li>Kayode Awojobi</li>
<li>Nwokeabia, Ifeanyi John</li>
<li>Chukwudi Nwokpoku</li>
<li>Okechukwu Onuegbu</li>
<li>Liam Obidi</li>
<li>Felix Chibuisi</li>
<li>O’star Eze</li>
<li>Nwobi Chidubem Valentine</li>
<li>John Chizoba Vincent</li>
<li>Marcel Ike Okonkwo</li>
<li>Stanley Obum Ezechukwu</li>
<li>Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha</li>
<li>Udo Okokoronkwo-chukwu</li>
<li>Nket Godwin</li>
<li>Ude Ibiam Ufiem</li>
<li>Onuekwe Jude N.</li>
<li>Chioma Favour</li>
<li>Nnenna Ogbozor</li>
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<h4 style="text-align: right;">Coordinated And Edited By: Izunna Okafor</h4>


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WORLD’S LONGEST LOVE POEM: MY LOVE FOR MY LOVE
