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Transition

We are travellers on this terrestial plane
where acorns are consumed in tinder season 
oaks fell by angry hurricane 
robust iroko mowed by lumbers greedy saw 
haughty araba viciously murdered for standing 
on progress impatient path
omo succulent  spine constantly curry 
carver's merciless scythe
okere's throaty tunes ricochets in the hunters pot
flaccid bellies beat rumbling rhytm 
like agba drum on festival day
but turgid tummies growl like hungry hounds
bamboos nubile wist receive romantic thrust of 
amorous wind 
while obeche lay immobile on agbegilodos sturdy spine
                                  
                             Uncle Tunji and Demola,siamized brethens,your drum
                             slit in mid-throb,when feets gathered for cerebral dance of 
                             consummation,the beat stilled by scarlet thread  of filial tyranny
                              on muted noon,your blood, a libation on their carvenous 
                              conscience,you raced to eternity,chasing hopes elusive light 
                               on our treacherous terrain,your tender spine succumbed 
                               sheepishly to their thirsty canine........................................

Musa,mauled in march after 
the rigours of planting when harvest scent 
fill the senses with delirious pleasure and 
crunchy taste of sweat intoxicate the 
mind,you were consumed in the hurricane of hatred 
ignited by your passionate quest the  for the light in this 
mythic maze,your magnetic mien attracted  envious arrows 
another scalp in their wicked pouch.............................................

                                Dayo,a rippening fruit that attract envious 
                                glance from salivating labial
                                 dangling on the crest of lolling waves 
                                 plunged into
                                  ancient gullet of seductive lips....................
Never again the tender hand that coerce comfort 
into troubled spine,nor warmth to fan assurances 
of reality into doubting souls,no more soft words from
your unending brook of care, 
no more the listening lobe sifting through our ton of worries
no canopy to shade our earth from the scorge of merciless 
sun............................................................................................................................

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Iseyin

Aranmo laso Iseyin ni ohunso
Aso ti aro olowo faramo olowo

Iseyin
of harried hills and skyscaping rocks
of humming hurricane and haughty harmattan
of succulent virgins and tasty lasses
of fearless fighters and valiant warriors
whose pock-marked faces tell tales of
changing seasons and fading ethos

Iseyin oro
your looms weave history of a thousand wars 
and countless strifes:
a kaleidoscope of sweat and blood
of bellowing ewiri and clanging steel
that power rippling biceps on virgin plots
and drape distant hills with a curtain of  lush green
of rippening grain and swollen roots 
that taunt and fatten western mind

Iseyin ebedi moko
where conscripted corps rouse sleepy road 
mouthing patriotic choruses with con-fidence
under the shun or in the st-rain 
of howling bigles and snarling commandants
between rationed meals and bedless sheets
educated urchins recarve stunted dreams and 
swap affections under the blessing of  a passionate moon;
culred in a fraternity of lust

Iseyin
at sunset 
a million pestles beat doughy rhythm to
the drum of seasonless soup and 
fumes of fermented wine
At night 
shakabula cast eerie silhouette of 
compromising customs and daring smugglers
every hut,a garage
every house ,a warehouse
every trail,an artery for the systemic draining of 
 a giang dwarf
Iseyin oh Iseyin
so benign your sonorous throat spurn 
loric tales of crushing contradictions and 
mesmerising oddities

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Domitila

She stood languidly under neon light 
Scant -clad bossom shine in erotic glory
Her tresses dance flippantly like reeds of the niger
Rag and ropes hung  carelessly-gorgeously on curvy cliffs
Her recklessly  red lip
Draw lustymen from the possessive warmth of their wary wives
As tiro-ed lashes coquetishly 
Lead them to sheol.

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Where Does Love Go?

Where does love go
after the thrill of hunting
through jumbles of resentment and 
thickets of fear

After whispered promises under
musical moons during nocturnal pilgrimages
nurturing teeny dreams

Where does love go
After the rites of 'I DO' 
and ostentatious feasting of 
friend and foes

Where does love go
After the ectstacy of dewy nights 
 feverish morn and nauseous noon


Where does love go
when sorrow wrench the heart and 
trouble shred the soul
when tears pour like libation
when crises cripple faith
and raging hormone tear apart a peaceful lair
when couples brag and braww
brawl and brag
and frightened kids become helpless umpires in 
domestic squabbles
when chop money dig galling holes, in 
penuried pockets
and million hands grab few wads
when harried hearts beat discordant tunes and 
suspicion sprout on famished ground
when words are hurled like rockets
and laughter clang like cymbals
when hate filled eyes gush with blood 
and judges gavel inter once bouyant dreams


Where does love go?

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Rebirth

Langbe jinna
When liquid crystals fall in spontaneous spatter
And earth release scintillating scent 
To the face of a haughty sky

Langbe jinnaq
When watery diadems drop  ceaselessly
And bonny limbs sprout in smart salute
jostlling for the affection of a resplendent sun

Langbe jinna
when heavenly dew cascade in musical torrent 
mustards ressurrect  in the ulceric womb 
of a famished earth

Langbe jinna
When scorching sun mother roaring rain
And mayflower beget milky maize
coycobs peep under chiffoned robes

Langbe jinna
When loquacious cob invite salivating lips 
for a kiss of death and life 
buried in sizzling pots oir coutoured  in a thousand robe
with hungry mouths munching in unison

Langbe jinna
When mouthed organ play jaw-ful rhythm oblivious
of draconian decrees
And moans from stripped neighbourhood 
when blocked arteries gushed with uncontrollable anger

Langbe jinna
When toothy hard-mini-traitors marched through conquered 
cities 
sounding furious drums and promising choruses to
frustrated fellows

Langbe jinna
Even if NPK disappear in transit 
And distraught  farmers mourn inclement policies
fermented in fashionable conferences
The beat goes on 
whether from the hiss of tortured wood 
or the ta ta ta ta ta ta ta ta  of convulsing coal
Langbe jinna

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Song of a Minstrel

My heart erupts like a volcano
bursting with scathing songs,for 
the lobes of tyranny,fattened
by the deceptive lyrics,from 
sycophantic lips

My tongue,a molten kalam,shall
consume the valve of fear,preaching 
caution to frustrated souls,now
my music must rise ,from 
the din of ancient sighs,remixed
in the swelter of pain and anguish,rehashed
in the gurgling sound,of 
blighted bellies

My anvil honed labial,shall
spin arrows to pierce,their
stubborn ossiccles and
invade the cosmos of haughty drunkeness

My strident cry shall spin a noose,for 
the drooling neck of despotism,hawking 
chaos on our conflagrating land,where
swamp dwellers bath with spittle,and 
princes pawn peasant's heritance

My touching tune shall rouse,fascist
minds to the scent ,of 
our brewing anger,and
restless impatience

I shall continue to sing until,this
gathering storm harvest hearts,and 
stir furious fists,to deal 
deathly blow to the cenotaph of tyranny.

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V E R T Y P O

Not
the dripping words from rotund cheeks
Or 
the mesmerized audience in fashionable conferences
Not
the frantic letters pawned from sacred pages
Nor
the cowering force of conviction in hallowed institutes
Neither
the skewed statistics manufactured on swivelling chairs
Abi
omniscient,omnipresent hard-mini-traitors know me
Rather,
I am the brackish fluid in hunger gorged sockets
the menacing cloud in the orphans eyes
the rumblimg rage in growling bellies 
the taut thread on diseased diaphragms
the bloodless taste of conquered cities 
the shriek from stripped streets
the chaos from breadless tables and passionless beds
and the repugnant smell of decaying dreams
I AM POVERTY!

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Dawncall

The cock sounds its trumpet
inviting azuri maids to a duet
darkness slips away,
stealthily-silently 
provoking the anger 
of a sleepless sun.

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Heart-Bits

Each dawn mother dusk
Every dusk murder dawn
In between
the world grope
shuffling and tapping
Perpetually inside maddening maze
Flashes flit through opaque cracks;
Load of laughter,tons of smile
Bale of affection,bundles of joy
Washed away in torrents of tears
Loneliness lurk behind soft lashes
And scribbled on salt soaked pillow
                                                MELANCHOLY,writ in red!

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Forlorn

I wheel to my corner
ostracised by your ebbing warmth
unyielding to my probing hand 
in the eeriness of NEP's darkdom
Memories tumble down my quavering spine
images splahed on your rigid back
of moisture ladden dawn and thrilling nights
under the watery spell of your moan-istrations
Now,I watch the defiant contours of 
your sensuous body 
miles across the counterpane 
protesting the pains of penuried existence