Long Emollient Poems

Smelly Stuff Absorbed 

There are many words for those excrements that appear on the fabric in
incremental solid and deliquescent motions because ingestion fulfils that
autonomous need to shed ablutions but here I declare ‘Waste not Want...

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Four palms, one taller, the other three measure the same.
Heavily anchored in sand, all are vertical climbers of this azure sky.
Eight new fronds per palm, the older ones neatly trimmed by man.
No cocoanuts anywhere to...

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"Odysseus and The Siren"



There he is 
like Odysseus 
bound to the mast of his ship
cursive words dispatched 
through aether to 
the somnolent nodding
in their stock 
he avoids full brace
the Siren’s enchantment
a song that sings 
his...

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Written: October 1st 2023
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In the ocean of silence, I’m stunned 
Astonish by its grandeur as I descend.
A comely curtain of conciliatory calm
Elapse the chaos, surreptitious and warm.

In the hushed embrace of the twilight sky,
A...

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Written: January 25, 2024
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Amidst this idiocy of guess and hear, 
a dulcet note I caught is quite clear.
An epiphany is...

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Written: September 26, 2023
Pick-A-Title, Vol 39 Poetry Contest            Sponsored by: Edward Ibeh 

 “However authentic the feelings of love, the dalliance was only ever...

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Towards love we will go to where it is soft 
to touch the perch on which he lays his heart 
perhaps I'll meet him in the Holy loft 
up on that place where lovers never...

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Take me , my love to the waters source
souls naked to each other and our course
my praise lifted the apple of  mine eye
art thou glorious , tis mine song to cry
 
You must lead...

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Written: February 25, 2024

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A sun sets in the west; oh, boy, he has gone to rest,
Mama grips her breast...

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I cherish the chains of her 
chocolate cheers, 
her chuckles charmed 
me like a cheap 
champion,
she lurks in love like 
lilly by the lagoon of 
love,
my flawless flower 
flows... so fantastical.

A celebrity so sublime, 
with...

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Her name was Anarkali, 
an eloquent carnival of legendary beauty.
a dancer in the court of Emperor Akbar.
Deep russet rouge blushed her red,
a silky smile on her rosy peach cheeks 
rich, sensual and seductive...
With the sweet...

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My soul had long been troubled...
by hatred, 
dejectIon 
and contempt.
They were the poisons 
that flowed red in my veins,
burning like wildfire from my head to my toes,
as if this world were inhabited by demons:
that have...

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I must say you are one of those African
artistes that drive my soul to the skies 
and show me what the world looks like
 with the lens of legacies.
You drown my soul into the depths
of...

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~they embraced in their dalliance~
her appetency held a depth so deep he just couldn’t 
resist placing his hands around her barren waste
(she reaches for him with ardor)

for tonight was auspicious and ebullience showered 
them with...

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Beholding this heuristic flower which grows....

Astonishment amid the midst of the deserts dust

Isolations guise so shunned, this beauty it seems

Emitting an emollient fragrance as such

A nardostachys jatamansi ~

This healing and soothing ointment as rains

Loving cup,...

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How the breath of Love has touched my heart
though not worthy to look upon it's face
Never from it's embrace should I depart
It has cleansed the crimson of disgrace
 
Now the halls of Merlin have been...

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i wandered LONELY as a cloud,
wearing rain like a fedora-
no sunkiss can be a soft kiss...
when stuck in a storm like this

f o r s a k e n  in the sky-
mighty eagles in...

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will i ever find a love?
a love my father failed of thought
 a mother's love i never got. 
a love with abundant craziness with right amount of holiness 
a love which respects, aspects with complex...

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Written: December 1st, 2023
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Colors waltz in a rainbow kaleidoscope
cynosure of sun sparks steel drum teams
Emerald elms embrace periwinkle sky
among fragrant...

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Written: October 23, 2023,
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A staunch surrender in a twilight embrace.
My mind is...

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A true writer when consigned to their virus induced self-isolation

Might want to consider turning over in bed for hot contemplation

Passion cannot be subdued by staying at home for an interim stay

But once you have bedsores...

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There lives a touch of the Divine inside my soul tonight 
and as I surrender to its peaceful ways  I begin to awaken gently  
I am a wayward soul in need of Godlike...

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Written: January 16, 2024
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Strength of herbs oozes vivacity and harmony
Chamomile elixir elevates mood,
Innermost wassail dreams. 

Galled, gurgling water...

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Paraffin pours on my nervous system, 
you laid a match to it 
with your smile; 
and it flared and roared and burned 
with every advance you spurned; 
I collapse into ashes and blood, 
swirled away...

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Love is the lubricant of the soul and the emollient of the heart, both  
Unguent and viscous, it glides like butter in the summer heat 
Banish it from your life and suddenly everything will...

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