DurugDivinesuccess
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Duru.G. Divine-success / Nigerian Poet Author / Exploring memory, identity, and the unheard voice. / More literary projects and poems coming soon. / Open to collaborations and features. / Contact: [email protected].
The Doe”
She wanders the forest where whispers are scarce,
Clad in robes of rustling leaves, fragile yet aware.
Around her swirl the wind, the water, the fire untamed,
A world in discord, where her presence goes unnamed.
The hyenas howl, the tortoise lumbers, the elephant bellows,
Monkeys leap and chatter, silencing quiet fellows.
She shivers with terror, defenseless and small,
No gates, no caves—yet she dares to stand tall.
Though vulnerable, she lifts her wary gaze,
Through shadowed woods and labyrinthine maze.
Her steps are measured, yet fearless and clear,
A silent power that others might fear.
The hyenas jeer, the elephant thunders, the monkeys deride,
The tortoise drags the crowd, their judgment wide.
Yet she moves with wisdom, nimble and wise,
Her vision piercing through veiled lies.
No gates, no caves, yet a fire burns within,
She guides, she nurtures, she dares to begin.
In a forest of chaos, her voice takes flight,
A leader emerges from shadow into light.
Mar 18
Mar 18, 2026 at 8:20 AM UTC
I walked through a weary world
where broken branches bowed to the breeze,
and fading flowers feared the frost.
In the center stood a garden—
not of roses,
but of restless roots remembering rain.
A gardener whispered,
“Life is soil;
what you sow is what you see-d.”
So I planted patience
in patches of pain,
and hope in the hollow ground.
Soon soft seeds stirred,
their silent strength
pressing past the patient earth.
And I learned—
the cage was never the sky’s design;
it was only a lesson in wing-dom.
— Duru.G. Divine-success
Mar 13
Mar 13, 2026 at 3:45 AM UTC
My voice was a seed sleeping under centuries of shadow.
The world spoke loudly,
but my words walked softly
like footsteps on sacred sand.
Silence lived with me then-
not cruel,
only patient like an old baobab
watching centuries pass.
It told me:
Stillness is safety.
So I stayed within a quiet cage,
woven not from iron
but from fear's familiar fingers.
Yet dawn is a stubborn storyteller.
One morning
the wind wandered through the grass
whispering wild, wandering wisdom.
The river answered in ripples,
and the sky slowly opened
its wide blue book.
Then I understood:
A bird is not born
to memorize the shape of bars.
The lock loosened
like dry leaves leaving a branch.
My voice rose gently-
not thunder,
but a soft song of returning.
Joy came to sit beside me
like sunlight on river water.
Once I lived under a sentence of silence,
but now my sentences breathe.
And the cage,
that quiet teacher,
became an allegory of forgotten courage.
Now I walk beneath the patient African sky,
a free bird
carrying the calm
of an opened door.
Mar 12
Mar 12, 2026 at 7:20 AM UTC