Best Adduced Poems
Remonstrations, protestations, recriminations
In the wake of a calamity that strikes below the belt
In communities decimated and disabled by insinuations
Brought to a head when fickle feelings melt
As tempers in embers flare
In scenarios of utter disbelief prompted by dysfunctions
In families with implicit love deficit declare
A truce among gladiators lest functions
Held in high esteem at best
Considered tenuous at worst in the light of evidence
Adduced by a traditional herbalist to test
Depth and strength of balance, cadence, credence
In norms hitherto perceived as golden standard
In matters of natural justice
Scoring above or below zero on a scorecard displayed with prominence on a placard
Denounce the injustice
Shown and grown with no iota of shame to collect and dissect scalps
Carried, harried, buried six feet under
In Utopian Alps
Reeking of the stench of blunder and thunder by a gander who considers gender
A taboo with tattoos of blame
Training, staining, raining participants to a cabal
With the lame name
Ordinarily thought banal
Strut the shame a family feels
At a low point in the life
It purports to live when squealing eels
Swimming in family ponds and puddles of strife
Stick a sharp knife
Into taboos of bamboos it desecrates
As a funeral fife
Consecrates and concentrates cancer crates
To wind up a discourse of the mute
While weeping eyes
Refuse yielding to coercion to recruit
Sties, ties, flies and pies teeming with lugubrious lies.
Health experts advise us to consume only drinks that are MEDICINAL
Greed is a reason adduced for sellers of drugs that aren’t ORIGINAL
Law enforcement agents are after those importers just like a CRIMINAL
Where local producers make drugs, their license must be PROVISIONAL
Close monitoring of process is important even if the item is NUTRITIONAL
Producers may abuse approvals thus any waiver must be CONDITIONAL
© Wole Popoola 2016
Imagine owning a gun
and you are doing it for fun
only for it to bring you harm
you become its casualty
or end up serving a penalty
while it becomes your reality
Destruction is a language they speak
fed on bullets that they later spit
thirsty for blood that they spill
Bringing life to a sudden end
while everyone apportions blame
for many, life doesn’t remain the same
While some use guns to settle scores
they don’t know how much blood flows
they will not admit their flaws
Robbing many of both property and life
they have to take cover in order to survive
giving thanks if they come out alive
prompting security and the alarms
to the response of sheriffs on alert
keeping many awake all night
Intervention comes with caution
to tread with precaution
though it’s a temporary solution
The law on gun use,
Enforced on those culpable for abuse
as long as evidence is adduced
With no limits to jurisdiction
they should all earn a conviction
if they are no false accusations
That should serve as a deterrent
making sure it is not recurrent
ridding society of abhorrence
To create a safe place for all
freedom to associate for all
we live once after all
Let’s engage in battles of words
Although they pierce our hearts
they cause no physical hurt
Using pen and paper to fight
won’t cause loss of life
Everyone will be fighting to be heard
which gets us all to work hard
because there is a leveled ground
answers must to be found
to questions that linger in our minds
Ted simply got self reduced;
Shown by Evidence produced.
His rash claims had been induced,
Jane having had him seduced
And the Quite False Ted adduced
After, he was introduced.
God, please, shame Jane and Constance
Now that Ted needs assistance
And is damned Weak Resistance.
Owner of the good is red
His sweat: now Jane's Daily Bread
"Just how could you Mister Ted
Another treat like The Dead?"
In these times losing your head
Over Eves that won't you wed."
In court, the accused
is produced and
charged with abuse,
no evidence is adduced,
the sentence is reduced,
he is not amused
to pay his dues
his name is in the news,
the public giving views
they have no clues
defense counsel does not snooze
no one wants to lose