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Apr 2014 · 704
Dumb Gourd
Cease, head, from a teetotaller 's tale
And lap up wine of words to brimfull,
Soaking the skull with many a flagon
Of poetry, prose, play and review,

That the brain cells may bubble over like
Foam inside the tumbler of religion
And humanities, arts, science and tech.
Apr 2014 · 927
Change of Frock (10w)
Casting the old flame's gear
away,
garbing a new wear.
Apr 2014 · 345
Tom of Jerry (10w)
Few cartoon characters have suffered
like Tom . . . yet not dead.
Apr 2014 · 1.0k
Swell Sis
Upon her faithful frame togs
Of beauty hangs;
Rosy robe, smelling myrrh.


All the go love is unambiguous--
Nought hid; clear
Like glass, soft like foulard.
Soul filled with gall, tears flow:
Crimson rushing on the snow.

Left home for office
Left home for somewhere
Left home for business
Only to appear elsewhere,

Where eternity steadies its swinging door.

Goodbye turns to abrupt good night,
Cold darkness replaces warm light.

Husband never returning more
Wife gone to another shore
Children laughs fade like leaves
Merry home in sorrow's sleeves.

Though evil men cannot ever cease;
In Jesus's hand commit our lives.
For the dead and injured in the blast in Abuja, Nigeria, yesterday morning (14:04:14).
Difference between You
and me is:
You're firm, I'm fickle.
Apr 2014 · 1.2k
Balance of Reason
Though mine eyes do the beholding
In probing, scanning and reviewing:
Measuring quantity against quality;

And though the scales of mine eyes
Unsteady are, altering like weather,
As my sight's balances beauty rank
By the ratio of its carat to dross,
Which are counterpoising each other
Like Michael and Lucifer--the frank

And the false; yet put I the manipulation,
The entire enterprise of my intention

Upon my heart. For though these eyes
Fairness understand but are unwise
Still to fathom the depth of love
On those twain pans of duplicity.

The beckoning ***** to the heart
Must thus tilt the weight in reckoning
Affection that the lop-sided lips wooing
A gold precious of a great rate,
That bears the hallmark of a prized proof,
May win no bauble nor feigned fancy.
Apr 2014 · 1.8k
Night In Saffron Gown
Night decks out in saffron gown,
Sparkling stones on evening neck.
Couched Venus out of her lunar lair,
Panting for Apollo's fresh dewy peck.
Settling upon her grand fluffy down,
He turns to strings her goodly hair--
Arousing apace all the sleeping stars
By his tunes that rival the Steinway's.
Apr 2014 · 386
Better Late Than Never
They that cannot for God's
gold
wait dash for the devil's dross.
Apr 2014 · 1.3k
Upon the Pastures Green
On the green pastures of tranquil peace
And prosperity may my soul famished
Ever be laid, to be fed and sated . . .

May my heart parched find solace
Beside the brook of goodness still
And cool, and my emptiness refill . . .

Serenity for trouble, joy for sorrow:
Let singing boughs bear the barren
Figs--bringing forth fruit of wren . . .

Arrow aimed at a flying sparrow,
Man must live not by bread alone.
He gains heaven that hell doth disown.
Apr 2014 · 292
Oblivion (10w)
When we sleep or die,
know not where we lie.
Apr 2014 · 491
Worry (10w)
Futile mental exertion,
blurring the vision
of wisdom
from
breakthrough.
Apr 2014 · 651
Thrown Over
Remov'd, affection horn . . .
heavy flood of tears flowing--
blood emotional's gushing
out from a heart broken.
Apr 2014 · 569
Blind Love (10w)
Walks without halting gait--
changing styles;
swims across Dire Strait.
"Love now wears goggles," many say, "to clearly see."
Apr 2014 · 496
Unworthiness
Why art thou staying still my breath,
Who suppose to have long perished?
Why dost thou count me amongst
The living, that ought to have vanished?

To life am I not entitled for many
A reason--am unworthy of being;
Yet with thy strong arm of grace
Hast thou been blessing me, O heaven.
Apr 2014 · 515
Burning for You
On the altar of even and morn
My fairest love for thee I burn--
The incense of mine heart,
That the frankincense's flame
May consume you whole, dame.
Apr 2014 · 1.1k
Neck and Crop (10w)
Love not m'heart
at
a lower rate, stringing me along.
Apr 2014 · 690
Saved
Took I the heavy sack of my sin
And dragged it into the sea
Of salvation--watched it drowning
To the bed of grace and mercy.
Apr 2014 · 481
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)
Apr 2014 · 384
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.
Apr 2014 · 718
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.
Apr 2014 · 402
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.
Apr 2014 · 314
Bounce (10w)
Fell.

But I've climbed my way
               back
to the summit.
Her presence is smelling
on the
sheet of my being.
Lingering fragrance of unfeigned rosy love.
Mar 2014 · 868
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.
Mar 2014 · 680
Weary to the Bone
At times I am verily weary to the bone,
Confining my soul in a self-made cocoon
By shutting out the world from my heart
As my mind meanders speedily tween
The hills of despair thru' rueful spleen--
There was a country ere things fell apart.


Pining for the wonder wand of Bro. Jero,
Our hopes have turned to zero--
Hit by the arrow of God--ha, penkelemesi!
Who can now this nation's nemesis remedy?
Acknowledging Wole Soyinka (Nobel Laureate) and Chinua Achebe--both  of whom august Professors of Literature; chronic critics of mad, mediocre regimes, lack-lustre living and advocates of the small fry--whose master titles are initiated herein.

*Wole Soyinka's: Ibadan: The Penkelemesi Years, and The Trials of Brother Jero

*Chinua Achebe's: Things Fall Apart, and Arrow of God
Mar 2014 · 642
Backslidden (10w)
Walking in the Spirit, copping
a feel
of the flesh.
Mar 2014 · 1.0k
Born Again (10w)
Birth is by two ways:
labour and lancet.
Nope,--three.
Mar 2014 · 791
Temptation (10w)
Doth lead to dark doom,
when it is given room.
Mar 2014 · 715
Poetic License (10w)
Bad at following
rules;
even God's laws,
I've broken
all.
Mar 2014 · 2.6k
Flirt (10w)
Feelings twirl in ceaseless
circuit;
pacific passion becomes
a rivulet.
Mar 2014 · 658
Beauty
Is it not that which the eyes
And mind together devise,
The chaff which the brain
Of man accepts as the grain?

For there is no universal balance
For measuring character and countenance:
Gay countries horn down the non-gay
That have opposed such a broad way.
The US and the EU have both threatened to cut down on aids giving to countries that have signed into law anti-gay bill, especially to Uganda and Nigeria.

The latter--but for ineptitude, corruption and want of wisdom--does not, and never should need, any aids to live in luxury, with the blessed billions of dollars swaggering into the country's coffers, but divert their moves to some very few folk's secret Swiss accounts, whilst leaving millions of others in wicked wretchedness. More's the pity!!
Mar 2014 · 2.7k
Bald Heart
Love:

Why art thou bald in my heart,
When you ought to have grown
Strands of hair--lovelocks longer
Than the striking bow in the sky--
Reaching to the sole of my feelings?
Mar 2014 · 1.1k
The Wise Shall Inherit Glory
Soul winning has limitless boons;
The Shepherd's welcoming glee:
To seek after the gone-astray sheep
And lead them to the fold of mercy.

He who converts a sinner to Christ
Reduces in this world crime and evil;
For they are creatures new who have
Been born again and deserted the devil,

Seeing for sweet sin the flesh yearns:
To be fed often with delightful iniquity.
By good deeds can no man be saved,
But by the blessed grace of Calvary.

Here, beneath the glittering sun--
The *wise shall inherit glad glory.
And there, beyond the shifting clouds--
They'll be relishing with Jesus eternally.
The *wise (Pro. 3:35; 11:30)
Feb 2014 · 432
Pine-view
The world has never been short
Of fair maidens and lovely women,
Which the ogling eyes are taller than.
Feb 2014 · 496
Holier Than Thou
He, afront be; and first,
The stone cast, who
No wrong hath wrought.
(Jn. 8:7b)

Version mine.
Feb 2014 · 473
The World
No matter how vile a man might be,
Even viler than ****** and more terrible
Than the devil; he will nonetheless
Have cheerers--his own people.

Witches and wizards loathe light--
Day is never their buddy but night,
Like ritualists and robbers and strumpets
Who prefer to blow the trumpets

Of their acts mainly in the darkness.
And however "good" you are, as Jesus
Christ of Nazareth, many shall be
Your foes in the Sadducee and Pharisee

Of the world. Though truth be killed; yet,
It shall undoubtedly again resurrect.
Feb 2014 · 441
Neither Nay [10w]
It's either Elysium
Or Erebus,
When the die is
Cast.
The ability sincere to not in faith
Waver, to never for once cave in
Like Abraham to Sarah's chocolate
Gift of Hagar--

For by her Midas' touch, she
Turned her own maid to a mistress:
The genesis of a prolong distress--

When God's promises look lingering
Like a night dark and weary,

As pressure like tides keeps rising, but
To tarry still in hope and be decidedly
Waiting for heaven's bright day of reality
Like Joseph when folks, as the but-
Ler chief, are

Excelling in life, marriage and career--

Is verily an uncommon genre of grace,
Especially in this world of rat race.

For man, for comparison and jealousy,
Is no sooner despaired than he'd be
Seeking for an alternative in Ishmael, in-
Stead of waiting more for the blessing

Of a great child Isaac,

Who is the promised son and the only
Inheritor of the land brimming with milk--
Canaan--and dripping with honey.
Feb 2014 · 713
God Is No Killjoy
God is no God that seeth only in
The day but gropeth about at night
God is no God that giveth goats
But collecteth comely cows as tithe

God is no God that is unwise
A sort of sucker, stooge and *****
God is no God that knoweth not wrong
From rigth regardless of what's done

God is no God that simply scorneth
And scoffeth at a sinful fall
God is no God that despiseth
A croaky voice or a hollering call

God is no God that doth not help
That succoureth nay in sorrow
God is no God that doth not care
That expresseth no empathy over a woe

God is no God that's carried up and
Down like Dagon, like a dumb toy
God is no God that taketh away
Manhood to become a killjoy
Feb 2014 · 502
Teach Me The Way To Go
Lord,

Grant me strength, speed and success,
Helping me to turn corners straight.
My soul deliver from wickedness
That lurk, lying about in wait.

No one the day knows well enough
To the end--its smooth and rough.
Teach me thus in life the way to go
In the fast lanes and the slow.
Feb 2014 · 345
Like Bread (10w)
Life is like bread;
It has crust and crumb
Sides.
Though bread like Panko is crustless; yet how many lives too are challengeless--soft inside out, without a single crusty issue--light or thick, brown or dark?

Little knowledge I could glean informed that: "Significant nutritional loss results from omitting crusts from bread.
Bread crusts are very high in fiber and antioxidants, and contain a greater concentration of vitamins and minerals than the inner portion of bread.
Crusts from darker breads, in particular, contain higher amounts of these nutrients such as pronly-lysine, an antioxidant shown to inhibit 'colon cancer.'"

So a being sans "scars and stripes"of life's downs seldom becomes a flag of glory to be hoisted up, accompanying with "Stars-Spangled" anthem of eclat.
My soul covet nay diamond and jasper,
Which can be stolen or lost altogether;
Neither seek you the fleeting treasures
Of the world with their misty pleasures.

My heart desire not cars nor mansions
Alone in this earth full of constant frictions;
Neither pant you after momentary majesty,
Rejoicing in an ebbing estate of excellency

For moths and worms shall consume apace
At death, this body, and its glamour face.
You cannot the devil confront with riches:
Job would have won cheaply his challenges.

But seek ye rather first the spiritual gifts--
Coveting earnestly heaven's endowments:
For life's purposes are by them established;
Without them dreams cannot be fulfilled.
Feb 2014 · 1.1k
Insomnia
In biting bitterness, in splitting
Spleen. Swinging like a shuttlecock,
Back and forth, upon a furry hammock:
Visited by horror dreams, scaring
Vision. Insomnia is torture!
And the rooster hath a line drawn
Against the dallying, dragging dawn.
Feb 2014 · 778
Short-lived Love (10w)
Thaw out icy feelings
On Valentine's;
Hearts become frozen afterward.
Your marriage is going to to fill a large part
Of your life, and the only way to be truly
Satisfied is to marry who you believe is
Great partner. And the only way to have
Great home is to love your spouse.

If you have not found him/her yet; keep
Looking. Don't settle. As with all matters
Of the heart, you'll know when you find
Him/her. And, like any great relationship, it just
Gets better and better as the years roll on.
Mr. Jobs' Stanford speech of 2011 rhymes with King Solomon's immortal wise words in Ecc. 5:18 and 9:9, about love and work.
Thou needest not be told that chamber
Labour will sap more energy than office
Work off thee: brawn for brain; --it is
Like climbing Mt. Everest in winter.
Peerless joy thou awaitest at the summit
When you come in thy summery suit.
Jan 2014 · 2.2k
Able Audience
The world understands nay struggle:
It is like speaking French in China,
Or Yoruba in Greece, or in Ghana
Arabic--it's a communication horrible!

But success, however awkward
It doth sound, has an audible voice,
Which is louder than the clangours
Of thunders that ring from heavenward.

The speech of poorness is scarcely
Heard in one's kith and kin's ears;
Whilst riches talk with dainty lips,
Whether foul tunes out they breathe.
Jan 2014 · 487
Come Up (10w)
Today a celeberity,
who was yesterday's nonentity:
sauntering in riches.
Man without quid is half
alive--save
for friars--by all scorned.
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