Best Dei Poems

"The Silkworm’s Birthday"





Mulberry leaves flutter in the breeze
Kookaburra brave Joker bluffs a sky blue breast 
Drops one feather for a quill, a song hidden in...

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"Exegesis"



At 7 he was 
thrown to the wolves

Bede marked his territory
hidden secrets 
kept in the abbey

he escaped
went to war
where the unwanted trod

First regiment,
Vietnam
he took with...

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"The Fresh Blooding of a Sexton Grin"



Guns ...

are for p*ssies
you know, short for 
pussilanimous plural

Words …

are sharper 
more cutting
more lethal 

clean 
concise 
quill slicing the...

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Lunar phases of deepest thoughts
Fasi lunari dei piu' profondi pensieri 


The unwritten absence of your 
beautiful soul, before you entered my world—
I closed my eyes...

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   The plans had been laid
     their dues had been paid
   10,000 enraged Mexicans
   ...

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"The Payload" 

The payload 
came crashing down
like rain expelled
from the fat belly 
of a ruinous pregnant cloud 
bilious with buxom promise

it came crashing down 
like...

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"The Tree Hugger and the Lost Paradise"

They called her 
the tree hugger,
her forest was full 
of trees that watched
silently, they had 
no mouth to speak,
rustling...

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OGUNLABI OLAJIDE YUSUF-NativePen 029
EKO @50
TIME OF THOUGHT:LOSS
DATE OF THOUGHT:2015
A damsel was born decades ago
Her name is EKO
Eko Ile Ogbon
She is the most sought after amongst...

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C.I.C.  
Codex Iuris Canonici (Code of Canon Law)
 
HIS
Iesus Hominum Salvator (Jesus Savor of Mankind)
 
Abbreviation for Responsory / Response
R.
 
Latin words for B.M.V.
Beata...

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Egli in tal modo il proprio carro aggancia
A quello del bieco suo alleato
Che adesso verso l’est la sfida lancia.
He in this way his chariot hooks
To...

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Zerbrechlich/ Fragile/ Frágil

Augenblicke zerrinnen 
in Einsamkeit,
zerbrechlich,
Hauch des Zweifels,
zerbrechlich, 
wie Meißner Porzellan,
vergangener Tage.


Hingestreute Gedanken,
verloren in kurzen Sätzen,
Vergangenes ausgestreut
und vergessen.
Zerbrechliche Zukunft,
lautloser Horizont,
Meeresstille im Windschatten.


Vergangene Tage,
zerbrechlich wie Morgentau.
Gegenwart...

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Weak-dei is a day following immediately after a Sick Day 

Shun-dei is a day when a person just wants to stay in bed

Moan-dei is a...

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OGUNLABI OLAJIDE YUSUF-NativePen 029
EKO AKETE @50
TIME OF THOUGHT:LOST
DATE OF THOUGHT:2015

A damsel was born decades ago
Her name is EKO
Eko Ile Ogbon
She is the most sought after...

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Ma,
Why do I need to apostrophize you? Why did you flew away into the celestial regions so earlier? Is it because you are from a...

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Ghost Ship
Benjamin Briggs a master, with three previous commands
Took over the ill fated ship, which was to prove to be his last stand.

The ship originally...

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