Best Wailings Poems

Dawn broke
The eastern pink sky
Drew across the stars
As they faded and lost to the night

 

I called the eagle
To guide me
Piercing whistle
That I learnt as a boy
Running wild and free

 

I walked in the company of men
High above, eagles flew
The wraiths are coming from the...

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As darkness absorbed in my reveries, my usual lapse accommodated itself in height of melancholy but not in this conscience. Then I found myself in my room and my window opened. Everything in upheaval, a white structure, huge, marvelously at apex of my window. I...

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As the peacock-sage 
waves of whimsical peace
faded in silence's 
pale watercolors, 
I masked my 
eerie eyelashes, 
with drifting 
angel-mist smog. 
For, I sensed the 
wistful wailings of 
ambrosial lilies, 
encased in my 
heart's crystal casket, 
as wistful wildfire of 
hatred incinerated my 
wildflower-wonderings 
and life's...

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"Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from an autumn tree."

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Farewell 2014, God Bless You
               Good years pass in a wink
      The cup is broken before you finish a drink
      ...

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Let us celebrate
This is not time to denigrate
Nigerians rise and jubilate
Cause we are poised to rethink and meditate
  
Let us roll out the drums
This is not the time to keep mum
Let the air be filled with fun
To drown the wailings and guns

Democracy has come...

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Of Fatalism

'Tis past the eleventh hour,
As time ...,
Here in the bunker,
I walked away from the Atomic Clock whose pendulum terminated its sway,
Walked I, away from expressionless gazes of our hereafter,
Longings tethered to massive cement deterrents laden with steel rods that point...

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Beneath this sordid stanzas storm swept night

Such eroglyphics; frost upon the warping window panes

Oozing opaques of blood red crimson, bleeding from burnt sashes

Crying ashes, screaming amid the rain....

"Do you really know pain," they asked

As the shadows of this world, did all but turn away

Rotting, flesh...

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Many moons and many seasons have passed
since you journeyed faraway to alien shores without a word from you, 
save a portrait of yourself clad in fine linen.

Every night, I see you in my dreams in scarlet silk standing by the beach,
waiting for that  bespectacled Snowman.

My...

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I was standing at the edge
I saw it coming
I could smell its scent
I had this feeling at the pit of my stomach

My heart was taking forever
Slow but sure it was coming to a halt
Death was knocking
The heart beat began to slow
It was so faint I...

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The 
appetite 
is 
wet,
The 
aroma 
is 
great,
Roses 
emitting 
a 
pleasing 
scent,
Tongue 
yearning 
for 
a 
taste,
The 
mind 
becomes 
restless 
and 
quickly 
shifts 
to 
a 
bad 
state,
Because 
the 
belly's 
vacuum 
has 
to 
be 
occupied 
in 
haste.
A 
battle 
erupts 
within 
the 
intestines,
Wailings 
and 
groanings,
Trumpets 
and 
horns 
are 
sounding,
Civilians...

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When it comes to all my sorrows 
what do I do with them 
Do I place them in a paper cup 
and pour them down the sink 
Do I take a mallet to them 
and pound them soft as mink 
When it comes to all...

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Re : Old Poems


Bells of triumph clang,
Fortresses fain to hail thee
Men of valiant swords.
Glories thence fell, crowns crumbled
To dust, no wailings were heard.

,,

The wind about thy sceptre howl and cry,
Loft precipices trampled;
Ruined rich piles of graves.

~


Forms : Tanka / Kimo


(3/21/2012)


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Darkness clipped this enclave,
As we wake to this new dawn.
It eroded our minds.
Our days turned nights!
Our nights turned days!

Our cries swim across our continent's borders,
We craft tents and hear wailings,
From our forsaken lands,
In our makeshift settlements.

We lost our heads like decapitated bottles.
We wailed to our...

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“Remember that funny joke I played on Louise in college? “ Mouse asked me.
She was in full-blown laughter mode now. She had hiccups and tears when she finally almost stopped,
Mouse, my jokester friend, has been my best friend since we were 7, after I accidentally...

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