Ballad for my daughter Demilade Ayomiposi Malia Joseph
...Demilade Ayomiposi Malia Joseph by Adejola Joseph an award winning poet. Author of Cracks On The Walls .
Demilade
Spring out of ocean
Water in the desert
My sweetest princess
You are the epitome...
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Categories:
glamours, child,
Form: Free verse
Violin POTW
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The glamours, tuxedo looks
of the hollow wooden body
tuned perfectly with its four
strings manages to embody
a heavenly favor of sad energy
as a bow is drawn across its strings.
Its notes wal...
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Categories:
glamours, love, sad,
Form: Free verse
Break On Through
...Chasing rabbits, unending distractions
Forever falling, upside down actions
Limited expectations, traveling hues
Sunken ships, washed away clues
Face-off illusionary fears, go through
Sparkl...
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Categories:
glamours, imagination,
Form: Rhyme
Glamours of a Setting Sun
...**The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.** "Helen Keller"
How cheerful to...
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Categories:
glamours, appreciation, celebration, dedication, happiness,
Form: Rhyme
Runes
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"Runes"
All galaxies abandoned
within you dimensions
ancient and unfathomable
creating new raptures
borne through fire
a desire to be clo...
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Categories:
glamours, love, magic, mother daughter,
Form: Free verse
Golden Rod
...T'was not the sun that caught mine eye
The shine reflected from nearby
The faces, golden in the field
With more light than the moon doth yield
There wild flowers, the like of which,
If true ...
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Categories:
glamours, beautiful, fairy, flower, imagery,
Form: Couplet
Boy Malaysia
...Who is this Malaysian boy?
His style is dashing,
His eyes are beckoning.
He is the eastern boy from Nnewi,
With the hands that work all day,
Where poverty has no space.
He is the western boy fr...
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Categories:
glamours, adventure, boy, hope, inspirational,
Form: Narrative
Corrupt Papers of the Ancient Wisdom
...There history without pages is written,
Blood carved in an opulence coven yet,
We stood and watched them deceived us
with a piece of yam that lack manners to the
Mouth, they called it our consti...
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Categories:
glamours, abuse, africa,
Form: Ballad
In Praise of Olaitan Bakare
...Olaitan Bakare
You are the moon that shines in the night,
You are the kiss that cannot be forgotten,
You are the child that must not cry out loud;
The sun that speaks for freedom to the captive....
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Categories:
glamours, africa, age, anti bullying,
Form: Blank verse
Dusk's Glamour
...Dusk, the end of day, harbinger of effervescent night
see how dusk slinks to night in shadowed rivulets
running, rivulets of blue black; see how it puddles
outlining the corpse of cypress, puddles fa...
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Categories:
glamours, nature,
Form: Verse
Beauty- You'Re Beautiful
...Beauty is not the eyes that smites the ocean
It's not that dazzling pebble they call the pupil
It's neither the lashes that makes a rainbow
Nor the brows that sink titanic
Beauty is neither the nose...
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Categories:
glamours, inspirational, life, love, heart,
Form: ABC
Truth More Mighty Than Strong
...Animation...imagination,
what's your subjective fixation?
Character's caricatured,
what's the true meaning of culture?
Silhouette's dancing their empty minuets
walking chalklines... trying t...
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Categories:
glamours, philosophy
Form: Free verse
The Silence Speaks
...Once sitting on the roof-top at 2 o' clock midnight
I heard the silence and depth of love,
where the silence whispers'
and the deepness calms,
What I heard, is the relation of true love.
Through...
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Categories:
glamours, imagination, love, passion
Form: Romanticism