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Angela Okoduwa Sep 2016
Whoso tells Wyatt, I know where is an hart,
And as for me, to hope I shall.
The oblivious bidding of my time Does weary me sore.
I'm of them, a rose amidst daisies.
Yet not I knows which ails me more;
To be a rose with a thorn or a thorn with a rose.
Do not deter my hart from pursuit
For his quarry has long sought it.
Unrequited love you fuss?

Anonymity of being in a forest of Daisies I whine.
Flee from you I choose, to draw Hither to him, I seek.
"I pertinent ad meridiem" but to Whom I choose.
In his shadows I tread, Wyatt let thy Fleeting hart be witting.
A reply to Thomas Wyatt.
The quoted words in Latin mean **"I belong to no one"
Esmeralda!
Angela Okoduwa Sep 2016
That night,
When the horses whined.
That night,
When the sea frothed white.
That night,
When the wind was slight.
That night,
When the passion was just right.
When crazed with wine
And awed by our desire's might,
And not even my guilty plight,
Tore the pleasure from my mind.
On our bodies we dined,
Till bells of midnight chimed.
The knots were not tied,
Cuz we were ridden with pride.
And revealed were our blights,
Yet we tried.
Haunt
Angela Okoduwa Sep 2016
An ink and a blot
A paper and its creases
A bored poet at loss
The lone shadow of the candle flame,
Hides the rest of the world from light
An alley cat's stealth walk
Creeps past the window of the poet
He stretches, cranes his neck
There, a maiden trod in the night
Under the canopy shadows of still trees
The wind was queer tonight
The moon seemed bashful too
He reaches out to call
But she turns to look at him
And like a dying wisp of a candle,
She's gone.
Dumbstruck, he sits,
He smoothens out the creases
He ignores the blot
He writes a poem
Of the maiden in the shadows.
Angela Okoduwa Jul 2016
A forbidden haunt but tempting.
***** with such rare grandeur.
Its dwelling- a cushion of serenity,
Crumbling all skepticism.
Fun, love and hope lit its foyer.

Romance and tenderness- its bedroom.
Spring shone through its windows.
One winter night came the storm.
The thunders struck!
The weather laid siege!

Until its foundations rattled!
Ceaseless attacks abounded!
All hopes fled!
Sadness flooded its gates!
Defiance was the order of its day!

Doubt ruled!
And soon the house will all be nothing but worthless rubbles,
Rubbles that was dreaded but all the same inevitable.
The house represents a relationship.
Angela Okoduwa Jul 2016
There's a fae
Who lives in a fern.
Her wings so little,
Her feet so kittle.

She was a tease,
But certainly not the least.
She flits through the grass,
With a skimpy dress of brass.

She hides in the shrub,
And offers a defiant shrug.
Her whistles beckons to the birds,
Even the goblins dare leave their beds.

Her step on petals are of light springs,
Even with hair tied in ribbon strings.
Mischievous little thing she was
Other wary faes ought to pause.

So carefree she treads,
Even mama could not knot her in a thread.
Most often, mama warns and shoos
Always, she'd never heed but coos.

One moon-ful night,
When she forgot her plight,
Into the sky, unwarily she soars,
And ends up torn in the bellies of owls.

With all her strenght did she beat
But the night birds had had their bits!
A mournful dirge for a fae no bigger than a wasp,
But who ends up dying with a gasp!
Angela Okoduwa Jun 2016
Into the beguiling depth of your eyes,
Lost in them I always become from a mere peek.

Watched your lips moving,
An image that tempts and haunts my thoughts rarely.

Unawares of the building lust.
All I wanted was to slake my thirst
With a single kiss.

It poisons instead and ignites my hidden passion,
Till I want you to rip them clothes off.
Angela Okoduwa May 2016
Dreams;
With a frown I woke
Never been so frightened
My blood, my sweat
The echo of their laughter still lingers.

Never have you not envied me
The dreams only revealed more.
Crave you do,
But always what was mine.

My deserved attention you always despised,
But towards you, a clean mind I bore.
My blood wants my sweat.
Will it be my doing?

What will be will be they say
My dreams make me a seer
But not to prevent the worst.
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