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Folorunsho Obalugemo
M/nigeria
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Folorunsho Obalugemo
Folorunsho Obalugemo
Apr 2014
Misalliance (10w)
Better to remain single
than
be hooked with a devil.
Better alone and single
than
perform duet with a devil.
Version II (10w)
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Folorunsho Obalugemo
Apr 2014
Helpmeet
A grave man needs a wife
With whom to share his life--
Wise, warm and straight spouse
To keep and tend his house,
Both making a merry home
Until the Lord's kingdom come.
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Folorunsho Obalugemo
Apr 2014
Home Address (10w)
Chestop, Hindbelow--
Womanhood--
Lovesville in Heart Borough,
Longpole-Center Mood--
Manland.
Pushing the boundaries:
though a private residence,
yet serious correspondence
are welccome.
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Folorunsho Obalugemo
Apr 2014
Destiny in My Hand
Seed buried beneath the soil,
Tend often in anticipated toil;
Yet how plants bud and blossom
Is above my cultivated wisdom.
Though life is a maze and mystery,
I've taken in my hand my destiny
Beholding it with faith's steady eye
Through weather foul and fair.
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Folorunsho Obalugemo
Apr 2014
Bounce (10w)
Fell.
But I've climbed my way
back
to the summit.
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Folorunsho Obalugemo
Apr 2014
Though Long Gone, Yet . . . (10w)
Her presence is smelling
on the
sheet of my being.
Lingering fragrance of unfeigned rosy love.
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Folorunsho Obalugemo
Mar 2014
Eventually (10w)
Zaftig ******* droop . . . ***** becomes
flaccid . . .
dark hair turns grey.
At last too green leaves become yellow, wilt and wither away as life enters into immortality.
Nought abides ever. Not even the diamonds in the sky.
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