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588 · Aug 2020
Philophobia
Emmanuel Davies Aug 2020
My heart is very fragile
So I kept it  from your love
Love is a painful wound
Yours, I might never recover from!
Don't know when I started this!
I think I learnt well from friends
454 · Dec 2023
Memory lane 1
Emmanuel Davies Dec 2023
Pictures I hear are memories...
One of which I have none...
Is it the pictures or the memories...
No memory of one...
358 · Oct 2020
Lazy
Emmanuel Davies Oct 2020
This quarantine's got me dizzy
Someone help me
With a cup of hot coffee
Or should I go on
Being lazy
308 · Aug 2020
PENNiNG
Emmanuel Davies Aug 2020
Ink dabbed on empty sheets
Jailing behind lines
Almost lost memories
What a perfect sublime
Ink and pages
Of almost forgotten memories.
A short pencil is better than a long memory
239 · Aug 2020
Fair
Emmanuel Davies Aug 2020
All sides fair
Life's a big square

To gnawing twilight snare
Memories recall
To a bayonet dance

Twinkling
Colour highlight
Natures creatures chuckles
Blushing between blissful blisters
Painful!

Still, regardless of a rose's thorn
From within a beauty is born
232 · Sep 2020
Fire
Emmanuel Davies Sep 2020
The beauty of it
The world I tell you
In the last days
When I shall cease
No more to be
But caught up with him
In the firmament

When I shall no longer
By my sins be judged
Nor condemned by my wrongs
But be tested in fire 🔥
My service to Him
228 · Sep 2020
Untitled
Emmanuel Davies Sep 2020
The Gospel preaches no condemnation
But of indisputable love
Why fright?
216 · Aug 2020
Compliccated
Emmanuel Davies Aug 2020
Pen is mightier than sword
You say!
What complicated way
To simply express the power of words.
214 · Aug 2020
Plea
Emmanuel Davies Aug 2020
Even if you love someone else
Please just notice me
Nothing hurts more than going unnoticed by someone you're emotionally attracted to.
Ouch! It hurts!
202 · Jul 2021
Hands of time
Emmanuel Davies Jul 2021
We sat patiently
Waiting for the free flow of traffic
Then you alighted
Said you needed a stretch
I waited and watched
As you took a step after another
Till you were quite a distance
Then it started
There was movement
I called out to you
No reply
I screamed and beckon to you
Still you just kept walking
Farther away
Until you are no longer unreachable
Till you were out of sight

I wanted to come after you
He held me back
He said
That's your bus stop
I hoped he was wrong
Hoped you would turn back
And say it was all a prank
But no!!!
You never came back
It dawned on me
And then I wished
For all the time
We spent apart restored
Wished I had made good use of time
And made you proud
I wished I could tell you
How much I love you
One more time
I wished I could hear your voice
Telling me you miss me too

If only I could turn back the hands of time...
Opportunity once a life time
192 · Oct 2021
Loud presence
Emmanuel Davies Oct 2021
I tried to get rid of the loud silence
Of your voice ringing in my head
I tried to shut out the presence
Of your absence
But the more I tried
The more crowded I get
In the solitude of loneliness
Only if I could break it down
192 · Aug 2020
Dream Or Reality
Emmanuel Davies Aug 2020
The world turn grey
As a turmoil of whirlwind
Builds within me

My soul quite frail
Must exit the building

Is it a dream?
Or was it reality?
There I lay
While I stood looking at me.
At your observations
It took me quite a while to get the picture.
190 · Aug 2020
Deceit
Emmanuel Davies Aug 2020
Deceit
Beguiling faces
Smothering soothing smiles
Dealing deadly dreaded dives
All Liars!
173 · Jun 2020
RELIANCE
Emmanuel Davies Jun 2020
I've come to learn that in life
No one is worthy of your stress
Despite the class
You shouldn't stress to impress
No matter how you try
They still wanna get you depressed

You laugh, you cry
You go out of your way
Thinking you could make em happy
But they still end up ruining your day
Hitting you blows of unhappiness
Fast, hard and steady
Till you're down and can't stand
Even for your own ordinance
It's an episode of life
172 · Aug 2020
Repel
Emmanuel Davies Aug 2020
The peace of the night
Goes without fuzz
Fought with a repellent
Mosquitoes can no longer buzz
Today's determination repels tomorrow's disturbances
Don't know just talking
Say no to bad blood

https://hellopoetry.com/d_silhouette
168 · Oct 2020
Nothing To It
Emmanuel Davies Oct 2020
When nations beckon
And the world refuse to reckon
Desires begins to burn
Upturning
To the very last one

Heart throbbing against self *******
Fighting false battles
Along the way
Liars exonerated in white robes
Perambulating, freely reassuring false hope
Beggars bellowing bad breath
Living luxurious lives like lords
Tailored tight thieves take turn
Chopping cheap chops
On platinum platters
Thinkers in their infinite wisdom
Making hilarious decisions

What's there to it?
In this vain world
If not that by your greed
We should be crushed
Into nothingness
Then maybe our eyes
Will open to see the world
For its cunningness.
A better nation would be achieved if only we would take off our blindfold both people and elected.
167 · Nov 2020
✍🙏🙏
Emmanuel Davies Nov 2020
Sorry I've not posted
In a while
Time as been
Very so tight
Or I just couldn’t
Find something to write
152 · Aug 2020
Time Tells 2
Emmanuel Davies Aug 2020
Time tells lately
Of a world gone bad
Mega bucks of destruction
Resulting in economy evasion
Unscaled and undeterred  
Nature draining and global warming
A coherent of capital dished round
Consumed largely by corrupt deities
151 · Jul 2020
Self
Emmanuel Davies Jul 2020
The Alstroemeria whispers
To the sprouting stem of thorns
Look how I blossom
The Rose mutely announced
"The end is a solace
To the beginning"
148 · Oct 2020
Power Down
Emmanuel Davies Oct 2020
Power down
A short while
Flip the switch
Bring back to life
Thank you all for your appreciation
143 · Aug 2020
Quarantine
Emmanuel Davies Aug 2020
This quarantine got me dizzy
Will someone help me
With a cup of hot coffee
        Or
              Should
        I
                               Go....... On
Being lazy..........
                   Lying..... on
       My bed
Starting at empty pages.....
Dabbed with ink
Of once beautiful memories.
Memories before I was quarantined.
142 · Jul 2020
TO AND FRO
Emmanuel Davies Jul 2020
To and fro to and fro
Faster and faster
Until the world whirls by
Goes the boy on a swing
If he would only learn to take it slow
Maybe then his trousers
Would learn to fit
And the world
Would in his head cease to meet
Maybe we Africans should
Check ourselves and not blame it all
On racism
Don't hate me for saying this ok
Just felt we should know!
#boy_on_a_swing
141 · Nov 2020
The Art Of Writing
Emmanuel Davies Nov 2020
Morphemes clustered in unison
Dancing wistfully
To the melodious tune
Of ink dabbed on empty pages
Drawn from the deep well of art
Framed from freely forged phrases
Adorned in a symphonic clause
Of well taught sentences

Oh the simplicity of it
The art of writing!!
134 · Jun 2022
Believe me
Emmanuel Davies Jun 2022
The coolness of being hot...😎😏
The goodness of being bad...😏🙄
The injustice of justice...😓⚖️
The independence of slavery...😣😮‍💨
The weakness of power...☹️😲
The savagery of civilization...😶😌
The subjections of rule of law...😭🤣
The plays of politics...😁🫣
The inactivity of PVCs...💸😌
Believe me...
I didn't say anything...😶📢
I need a suitable title pls...
118 · Jan 1
Dawn🌅🌅
It's a new dawn
With a golden array
Though we might
Have had dreams
Lost or delayed
I'm in no position
To tell you
How you feel
Or what to do
But when you look back
Especially to the year 2023
You can just but wonder
What a tough survivor
You've been

So why don't you gear up
And face the new dawn
Head on
Put the failure
Of the past aside
Set your dreams
In the wake
Of a new light

Friends and family
The best of all time
All a shoulder
To lean on
In the toughest of times
You ain't got any of these
Try Jesus
He's the of all
With him
No shoulder required
To lean on
Because you will
Always be full of joy

Enough talk
Just want to wish you
A Happy New dawn
Keep to your dreams
And ensure to always smile

Okay.........  Bye bye 👋
Love you all💖
#
117 · Sep 2020
Free
Emmanuel Davies Sep 2020
Free a short word
On a long run
For some its a big fraud
Their minds keep them bound
Freedom is a thing  of the mind
113 · Oct 2020
Nothing To It
Emmanuel Davies Oct 2020
When nations beckon
And the world refuse to reckon
Desires begin to burn
Upturning to the last one
Heart throbbing against self *******
Fighting battles along the way
Liars in exhornorated in white robes
Perambulate, freely reassuring false hope

Beggars bellowing bad breath
Living luxurious life like Lords
Tailored thought thieves take turns
Chopping cheap chops
On platinum platters
Thinkers in their infinite wisdom
Making hilarious descisions

What's there to it
In this vain world
If not, that by your greed
We should be crushed into nothingness
Then maybe our eyes will open to see
The world for its cunningness
112 · Aug 2020
Weeping Africa
Emmanuel Davies Aug 2020
Far from home
Our minds thus wander
To a land
Vast beyond the ocean
Where the whites lives yonder
With minds stone cold
We shun our homemade products
The fats of our toil
We reserve for aliens
Who in their world
Are not worthy
Of a strike of an applaud
Nor a job to be poor

Our children scavenge for crumbs
In the hands of strangers
In their home land.
Our leaders with alluring deceit
Conjure soothing malicious stories
To educate us on the benefits
Of this benevolent strangers

Our youths for ignorance
Scramble to be noticed
By this fair coated aliens
Who's helping outstretched claws
Would save us from the ignorance
Of our daring impulsiveness.

No-one will ease her of the heaviness
The heaviness of her yielding back
Nor till beneath her scorching smiles
But would rather
Dance to the sophisticated tune
Of the aliens piano
Neglecting the message
Of her talking drum.

**! mother Africa
How she weeps so
Beckoning on her children
To come back home
To the hospitable warmth
Of her essence.
Where we love
One another without fear
Nor look down
At our resourcefulness.
111 · Jan 2021
My Pride
Emmanuel Davies Jan 2021
My Body My Right
A sequence by which I live
Violating the twist of the night
To tell a tale of a life time
If I must my wish
To do accordingly
To my body as I will
To tell the story
Of how I violate my body
Without the fear of justice
Lost in the plain
Of painful pleasure
With the assurance of the night
Sitting closely
Beneath the cool
Of the moonlight
I tell the tale
Of the violation
Of my right
My body and my pride
101 · Jul 2020
silent power
Emmanuel Davies Jul 2020
I feel
I have offended you
Please
Don't be silent
The power of silence
99 · Oct 2020
Thank you
Emmanuel Davies Oct 2020
A very big thanks to all
For your appreciation
And for giving me an opportunity
Amongst poetic elites as yours
Thanks
98 · Sep 2020
Bore
Emmanuel Davies Sep 2020
Lately I’ve been getting no replies
To the questions I ask
Don’t I deserve an answer?
Or I don’t at all matter?
Please don’t quench my fire 🔥
I’m only trying to be better
That’s all
Nothing more
So when do I get my feedback?
Or am I that much of a bore?
Please your point thus matter
It goes a long way
93 · Aug 2020
GAy
Emmanuel Davies Aug 2020
GAy
If only our minds were gay
Don't know
Just checking out
How it would play
93 · Jul 2020
Disguise
Emmanuel Davies Jul 2020
Painted faces
And contact lenses
Deep inside
You can never hide
89 · Aug 2020
Humane
Emmanuel Davies Aug 2020
Black lives matter
Racism inclined
All lives matter
Humanity defined
86 · Jun 2020
The One
Emmanuel Davies Jun 2020
Sometimes we've got to trust
If we're to ever find the one
Trust not wholly on the heart
For it could turn out to be a bad act
But give in slowly to time
Then maybe it would find us
Cause love is not to rush
That would be a minus
Sometime what we seek
It's just right there
When we open the inner eyes
Then we know
It actually found us
86 · Sep 2020
Isle
Emmanuel Davies Sep 2020
Two people
Walking the isle
One is you
With your heart
wobbling behind
The fair fears of the isle
You hoping she doesn’t ditch on you
86 · Sep 2020
Hero's Bliss
Emmanuel Davies Sep 2020
Born from mist
A hero quite a marvel
Demons he must fight from within
Lest his soul be taken from him

A hero's chant
Wakanda Forever
Still ring on our lips.
Now left behind
Family, friends and foe
Both fiction and more reality

Though your soul
Now from us depart
To pant with Panthers
In a world beyond reach

Forever in our heart 💓
You'll be.
In tribute to Chadwick Boseman
A legend of his own legacy
84 · Jul 2020
summary
Emmanuel Davies Jul 2020
Life's a book of one page
With several lines
And another side
I hope you can summarize?
82 · Jul 2020
EMPTY PAGES
Emmanuel Davies Jul 2020
Flip the pages
What do you see?
Check the safe
Nothing about me.
Swift steep stride
Getting nowhere in life
I close my eyes
Hoping there's enough time.
82 · Jul 2020
Flee
Emmanuel Davies Jul 2020
Flee from the vile of him
Subdued beneath your feet
Be a coward of peace
And let love guide you from within
Never you turn from your dreams
Success lurks
When you live your dreams
#draems
Never stop dreaming
81 · Aug 2020
#Trust
Emmanuel Davies Aug 2020
No one is to be trusted
Note!!
I didn't say
No one is worthy of your trust
81 · Jul 2020
Sanity Of Fame
Emmanuel Davies Jul 2020
I'm a star in the light
I hear my name being chanted in the hall of fame
Giving way for pride and ego
To rise along the way

I'm a star that's alright
Walking the Isle of fame is my right
I do what I do, it's my pride
Why I do what I do?
I'll tell you why.

I do it for the love
Not for the fame
I do it for a course
Not to play some game
I do it to put smiles on your face

I do it to teach lessons
Not to mock masses
I do it for our stars
Who let fame into their pride
And now lost unto which cause they fight
I do it to preach the gospel
And not to insult people
I do it to build others from the interior
And not to feel superior

With all this being my pride
I do it to keep sane
In this large hall of fame.
#fame
#tgi
#sanity
#stars
80 · Jan 12
Life After Death
I held you in my arms
Tight as it may
Your eyes held shot
As you convulsed a stigmatic farewell
I sniffled you a goodbye
I could feel my eyes melt
I squinted back the tears
My heart held.

I held you in my arms
I called upon your keepers
Their white coats flared the air
As they scrambled here and there
Frantically and effortless
I sat and stare gloomy from a chair
Grieve gripped the air
My heart held.

I held you in my arms
When you gapped your last breath
Stiff and lifeless you lay there
Peacefully in the mournful arms of death
I sniffled
I cried
Questions in my mind
You were not there
It was pointless
It was hopeless
My heart held.

I held you in my arms
Now you're six feet in the ground
It's been a numbered years
But you're not here
Once my heart held
Your absence is felt
But we must live
Even after death.

Heartbeats
Thump! thump!!!
Life after death
Is it the beginning?
Or is it the end?
Happy post humourous birthday ma...
I have made many more mothers...
But you are my mother
77 · Jul 2020
Salt And Sugar
Emmanuel Davies Jul 2020
Both are white
Salt and sugar
Both in their place
Would make your day
When in some case
They merge to create a way
So when you differentiate
Know that both are great
And both can fail
Trust shouldn't be centralised
Everyone deserves a level of trust
Everyone has got a place in your life
You've just got to find their use
77 · Jul 2020
The Letter
Emmanuel Davies Jul 2020
God created the world in seven days
Six actually, the day he created a spectacular being (you)
In five ways will God bless you
And the four Seasons never fail to favour you
The three recipe for living (knowledge, wisdom and understanding) will always be with you
With two lines left to tell you what I want to tell you
I tell you one thing

Thanks for appreciating my poetry and I
Thanks to all of you who appreciate what I can do
76 · Aug 2020
Mhm!
Emmanuel Davies Aug 2020
Till you meet mine
You have met no friend
Maybe not one as perfect
76 · Sep 2020
Power Down
Emmanuel Davies Sep 2020
If the world must fall asleep
Let it be a short while
Otherwise all nature will wonder
If it be pride....
Or a very long nap.....
75 · Aug 2020
Time Tells(1)
Emmanuel Davies Aug 2020
Time tells lately
Of a willows night
The menacing hoot
Of a flying 🦉 owl
The excruciating pain
Of a joyous 💓 heart
The undue laughter
Of a wailing mouth
Of happiness melancholy
In a home unfound
It comes in four notes
75 · Jul 2020
HOPE
Emmanuel Davies Jul 2020
Do not quit
Until you find the light
From the enclosed cave
You must escape
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