Long Aureate Poems

This dread disease that has afflicted my home, 
This malady, this plague on my house;
This making convertible the former quaintness and provincialism thereof 
Into something wholly despicable and disgustingly homogeneous,
Yclept "cosmopolitanism," and "worldliness," and "globalization,"...

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Im half awake, and glaring at the sunrise
distant brilliance slowly eating at my dry eyes
squinted to best witness the aureate Apollo
refract off blades soaked through with dew
heaven's first blush, midsummer quiet, and coffee scent
cast clarity,...

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Neptune: 
I believe what I endowed the earth
with the swashing foreland when
the arogant waves strikes and take birth
of gentle ripples while flashing back
To the oceanic abyss, the sapphire peace. But
Where are you my marine fille?
Come...

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On a fine April day, set out in the great cruise ship, Titanic,
Into the pelagic waters of Atlantic, with the weather alluringly sweet.
Plush it was with beaming fellow travelers and amenities astounding.
A journey of great...

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Written: March 07, 2024

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As I gaze up at the sky,
A vision appears...

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Written: November 17, 2023 For Anoucheka Gangabissoon Contest
Butterflies are self-propelled flowers.~R.H. Heinlein
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I was beset by fetching shade and quiet.
Silky blue wave was all...

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After scary Halloween and its ghoulish pranks
November dawns with all-saint’s and all soul’s day
Carrying a pious note in the balmy wind
Along with the haunting memories of our dear departed

November parades herself in a riot of...

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The freedom of the cerulean skies
I'm lost and found, I'm all vapid sighs...

Perhaps I'll colour a bit more of the scene
The sun, slightly better, it's a beautiful citrine

What could I do with tangerine?
Nope, I got...

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Sun-soaked
spectral topography
sculpts with lattice 
of longing
                luminescent, 
the veering valley 
of my lucent life
undulating briskly
in plains of passion
with the cadence...

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Written: October 10, 2023   
Night Bewitches                            ...

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in church congregate
our sins God did consummate
new life will be grrreat

when I cleaned up ground
it will look nice all around
being safe and sound

my house seems so swell
nice not looking like pure hell
in love with have...

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A hornet’s nest buzzes within her head,
nails her down with stings of poison,
head reels, gyrates and spins.
Hated, reviled and bitterly denounced,
cruelly slandered and abused,
at the scaffold, she stands!

A vast sea of people before her;
flooding out...

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Written: January 17, 2024
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Delphic melodies on
elysian breeze
lustral chorales in...

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As an aperitif to understand the essence of thought
Blood of a young tortoise touched my lips
Seldom as it is - pure ichor – I whisper’d in a trot
Let me get drunk on it while deifying...

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Most mornings I can be found in my backyard,
checking milkweed leaves I protectively guard.
I collect them to nourish and nurture til the day
butterflies emerge, dry their wings, and fly away.

I smile at the sight of...

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PAINTED IN WHITE
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Plethoras of colors produce pallets
Upon the whited sheet of her canvas
Painting her smoothly in sensational elegance
Making known her venue lavished in vibrance

Solid streaks of red, solemn streaks of black
With swimming streams of blue...

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Jack Frost, Jack Frost, how we feel your icy touch.
The earth lies under your freezing clutch.
You are a sneaking thief coming to steal the russet sun,
And mercilessly take away all our outdoor fun.

Fluffy snowflakes on...

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O thy divine flame till eternity must burn,
Thine thoughts each mortal on crust must learn.
Servest thou each bruised heart in trepidation, 
And allurest thou 'em all to peachy innovation.

For, know not one but thy thought's...

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THE GOLDEN APPLE
J. OLUSESAN ADEBANJO
09 JULY 2016

I WAS BORN, I GREW, I FLOURISHED, I SPROUTED
DESPITE THE DROUGHT, I BECAME STOUT
I BOOMED, I PROSPERED, I THRIVED, I BLOOMED
SATIN STEMMED AND OLIVE CAULINE LEAVES
STRONGER BY THE HOUR,...

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If no longer could I inscribe, upon tapestries of rosy skies,
Dreams tinted violet, blossomed in themes amethystine,
And no longer could I weave-in the dreamscapes of life,
Failing to decode the missives of your clandestine smile;

If bluebells,...

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“Life without colors is colorless” – poet

In a world painted with vibrant hues,
Life unfolds in a spectrum of views,
With so many colors, both bold and bright,
Each shade telling stories, day and night.

As the sunrise, aureate...

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Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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Cherish the moments, rising on fabric of fuchsia skies,
Painting motifs of amber dawn, dipped in golden sunrise,
In brushstrokes mauve, tinted pink, on opaline...

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Written: April 20, 2024

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Dappled gold shimmers in spring—wake...

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Zanthoxylum shrubs with clustered yellow flowers,
Yolks of eggs and yellow jackets make her want to scream.
Xanthophobia ensnares her. It is sickening
Wakening to an aureate dawn’s bright rays.
Vehemently she shakes!
Ubiquitous are sunny days; she much prefers...

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Designed by the creator, the seasons revolve,
the scorching heat of summer is long gone.
Outside the window open on the pale lawn,
the music of the rustling leaves mesmerize me.

As the autumn scene slowly fades away 
within...

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