Becoming one with the universal pulse,
that coruscant hue endued vibrancy benign,
I eschew lethal inhibition toxic,
inhaling meteoric shards of,
effervescent mood boost capsules,
whilst power plugging brain dead cells,
into trancelike transmitters of prana,
unleashing channels stymied by a jinx,
healer, harbinger heroic of invisible field,
whose silver winged prowess pivotal
Dream
I took your hands into mine with a gaze
You smiled and murmured,
“I will not go, and why hold so tight?”
I let you go loose with a cautious look.
Though happy and blissful jiffy
Scared was I of the evading scene.
Will the time come grabbing you from me?
But stayed you till the end with me.
Rang the alarm eclipsing my soul
Dropping me to the world without you.
Realized did I, the biome of mine,
All alone but just with your memories.
Piercing is my soul, with a sharp dagger
Driving I am in the palanquin of grieve.
Beckons me the responsibilities you bestowed
Beholds and harnesses to this secluded world.
Bewildered I am to transcend;
Elated I am to live in the old bygones
The treasure troves of memories of you and us
That heaven have endued on us
Sandhya Bijoy
They sifted through the red soil of the years,
Plucking at roots where the great forebears sleep;
Not merely dust, but salt from ancient tears,
In vaults where Oghene’s secrets buried deep,
They sought the tongue of the Urhobos.
The mother-tongue—a Vwre of vibrant gold,
That bound the Uvwie and the Okpe soul—
Now lies beneath the damp, colonial mold,
A broken Ivri, losing its control,
In Ughelli’s mist, oppressive, gray and cold.
A desperate hunt for Edoid embers lost,
By Inuivwi clinging to a fading grace;
They seek to mend the spirit, tempest-tossed,
And find the value of their rightful place,
But find a landscape utter double crossed
For in the throat where udi used to flow,
A jagged, coarse Pidgin now is spun;
The Emotes of the market-square, we know,
Have taught the children’s lips to skip and run
From the very gods that made the delta grow.
This coarse alloy, this Oibo-shadowed chime,
Has choked the wells where elders’ wisdom brewed;
The tongue of kings is smothered in the slime
Of vulgar slang and metaphors endued
With nothing but the wreckage of our time.
In he whom I endued with life and love
does to one patient in hope bear reward -
a trueborn heir a man can be proud of
and whom well affectioned is well adored.
Follow the pathfinder maps to your soul
and hold fast its moral bearings inward -
trust in seen and unseen, in faith uphold
and in your heart recompense good for good.
Thus be not reckless in your own conceits
but wise to just cause and love’s whispered breath -
walk safely in the world in all your feats
lest it suffer me and quicken my death.
Make your way like him ragged and unshod
and bend your knee unto no one but God.
Written: March 2009
Allowed preachers to be unexceptional
Sacrificed priesthood as liberty ordain
Prophecy lingua by Hiberno accent
Endued with melodic timbrels and dances
No differs from Sufi whirling for their God
Sung the song as Moses led the sacred song
Anthemic and ambience grunge as cathedral bells
Ingrained pedal's drum and chiming guitar
Proclaimed gladness, love and peace
No men to the left and women to the right
No evil, devil, debil and imbecile words
No who errs severely retarded
Equality is their deed
Narrative music poked holy book verses
Told your own story since war pained
Die hard being Irish, shaking the pitch
Both IRA and UK, put the guns down
Tribute to: Dolores O'Riordan
When restless suns have cast their final ray
Upon this space of ground that I've possessed
And hymns of sorrow punctuate the day
This soul of mine shall have its lasting rest.
Then tongue shall once again of briefness speak
Life's swift journey once again reviewed,
That cause which hastens anxious men to seek
Will lead another man to faith endued.
Full moons and big peaches,
Juicy strawberries and soar lemons:
Fruits and seasons,
Yesterday ways hell...!
Today its heaven, gates opening
As i see a man holding an goldenrod
Twisting, seeing strange ins....
A world, from crawling to walking...
The growth to evolving,
And life be tough like the mountain range,
Oh why; oh why; oh why...
Is it so hard to fly!
From dreaming nightmares
To finally waking up to falling asleep again,
the battle of self that never ends,
New levels... New enemies!
But the same friends,
From shouts, boos yeah that too!
To cheers and champagne bottles:
Glass fragile and when smashed they break!
Cries be like shattered pieces cutting through my skin,
bruises of hard work be visible to me-
And only...only me!
Journeys of life be captured in a moment of prime,
struggle's endued and won.
Submitting to God, obeying His commandment
I persist to please Him with faith’s requirement
Persevering toward heavenly attainment…
Propelled with service-involvement
I comply to biblical agreement
Pursuing joyously after eternal achievement...
Midst steward-duties upheld by devoted commitment
Believing that victory in Christ along His empowerment
Awaits me with His blissful peace engagement…
Thus, around prayer-fellowship’s fulfillment
My spirit toils for faithful kingdom advancement
Endued with His wisdom*; assured by His loving endearment.
*James 4:7 Submit yourselves therefore to God.
June 8, 2019
Submissive to God, we’re steadfast for His kingdom*
---Endued with His wisdom to enjoy willingness’ freedom.
Secured in the Saviour, we’re settled in His redemption’s assurance
---Exposed to Scriptures’ truth to overcome fatal ignorance.
Satisfied by Christ, we’re sufficed by His grace
---Enveloped within His love around His compassion-embrace.
Seeking the Almighty, we’re shaped through His victory-might
---Enabled by His power, intensified by light.
Serving the Lord, we’re set for reaching-out
---Exercising full reliance upon His Word midst faith-bout.
*Matthew 6:33 …Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness…
March 26, 2019
Eased onto an exsiccated embankment
Enchanted by the empyreal expanse
Exhausted from day's endued earning
Yet elated at the endowment of esprit
Enjoying earth's earnest, emoting eye of
Emerald engraved in ecru in eyes that are
Endlessly enamoured with all existence; I
Echo 'er expression of enthralled euphoria
Evoking an effusive extolment of Eminence
OluDola2019.
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