Champagnes Poems

Death in the New Year

...Our hands are tied, Death
Since you dawned on us this New Year . . .

Shapely bottles of champagnes have shone
And have broken to fragments with the ululation
Of firecrackers that warmed cold an...
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Categories: champagnes, death, sorrow,
Form: Elegy

The Postman

...He schleps constantly at noon
Through declivities and straight roads,
Bearing messages sealed by the hands
That laid them bare in the first place.
Sweat caresses his face, forming one mass of
Ea...
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Categories: champagnes, christmas, community, december,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberIn marked territory

...When my inkless isles 
become drenched 
   with icy wintergreen embers 
of apologetic auroras ~ 
 and l i f e loses its lyrics in lilith's labyrinth, 
  this soul orchestrating in origami ri...
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Categories: champagnes, angst, betrayal, dark, deep,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberVersailles

...In a phalanx of four: Peter, Lisa, Dave, and I, descended a waterfall of marble stairs - pilgrims to another time - as if we’d punched through a wormhole.

It’s a five-star bash at the palace of Ve...
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Categories: champagnes, boyfriend, fantasy, friendship, happy,
Form: Free verse

A Reminder To Nigerian Current President, Dr Bola Ahmad Tinubu

...A reminder to Nigerian current president, 
Oh ! Uncle president Bola Ahmad Tinubu, 
One of the  seniors African politicians 
who could direct the youths well not to hell.  
Your honorary doctorat...
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Categories: champagnes, africa, history, political,
Form: Free verse


The Bullingdon Boys

...Gentlemen, raise your glass to the British institution,
Breeding the champagne elite with seamless execution
Exclusively tailored for the clotted cream of the crop
With privileged patrilineage as ...
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Categories: champagnes, identity, leadership, political,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberSix Days of Christmas

...Six Days of Christmas

On the first day of Christmas my MP had for free:
A partridge with all the trimmings. 
It didn’t come from Aldi

On the second day of Christmas my MP had on me:
Two vint...
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Categories: champagnes, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Loneliness

...I've been seeking to blend,
in with people and at least make a friend.
Most times I use my pen,
To try to get out of my lonely den.
So many times has loneliness pushed me over the brim,
That the...
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Categories: champagnes, art, confidence, depression, emotions,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe Thrill Is Not Gone

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Whatever magic elixir did you add to my drink?
That the thrill of you in my sacred soul never shrinks?

Minutes of decades ago bubble and laugh so happily in my veins.
I close these dee...
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Categories: champagnes, daughter, imagery, love,
Form: Couplet

Champagnes and Cocktails

...We too have champagnes
champagnes against diseases
champagnes of dead drugs
things dangerous but fit somehow
probably for a slow something

We too have cocktails in plenty
cocktails of dead bo...
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Categories: champagnes, africa, satire,
Form: Free verse

Ballroom Delights

...Ballroom Delights

Bright and colorful like a rainbow in blue sky,
spacious space for special souls and selected 
sounds and songs of summer nights.
Glorious room packed with excitement
and siz...
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Categories: champagnes, beauty, celebration, culture, dance,
Form: Free verse

Enemy of Love

...It seems just like yesterday not even gravity would take me off the earth
But when you took me into your arms, you changed it all

Scenes keep locks on the sound of love
I feed on riddles of word...
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Categories: champagnes, i love you, love,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe Plague

...as the PROPHETS of profits, WE lead and WE’re fair
while WE’re living the life of the poor BILLIONAIRE
– silver yachts, pearly castles, cash (plenty to spare) –
with the world on OUR backs... ah! ...
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Categories: champagnes, society,
Form: Quatrain

Who I Am

...a part of me wants to sing and dance
to love and share joy with everyone
a part of me wants to explore
to behold the most unique scape of mother nature
this part of me is very sincere
it express...
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Categories: champagnes, me, philosophy,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberNever Land Part 5

...A lad is stopped by roving cops, who shoot in disregard.

His face is black, he’s on his back, a breeze is breathing hard,

he bleeds and dies, his mama cries, the screaming sky is scarred,

th...
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Categories: champagnes, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme

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