Long Javelins Poems

Pay heed to those deeds from whence the heart must confess...
You're far from Rome Proconsul Caesar...
As they say, "All roads lead to Rome" Ariovistus
and all tresspasses are treated as threats of war...
My recent conquest of...

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Once upon a time in the lands from the north, south, east to west    
Navigating on the cold white sands formed of sugar and ice       ...

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THE ANGELS:
Oh!
My angels,
My hands are in the,
Air for you,
Pardon me for abandoning,
You for some times, age,
Like Ojukwu properties,
In Lagos state.
My angels,
I am sorry for sometimes that, 
I was like Adam and Eve.
I know that being...

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A craving to conquer, a hunger for war
Ships set sail, to foreign soil 
Across dark seas onto treacherous shores

Archer’s drawback their bows, 
Fiery arrows climb high,
Flying with fury, they darken the sky.

The awful odor of...

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May the groom's vows adventure from heart to soul
Forever like restless surges in endless circles roll.
May the bride's vows yoke rivulets to the doting main
With interlinked steps of brass chain.

May these vows, arouse the starry...

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Pitter patter, drip, drop, it’s not an April shower
Drip, drop, drip, drop raining hour after long hour
Suddenly the sun streaks through, javelins of sunlight
Then back to pitter, patter, and rain throughout the night.

In and out...

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11/28/16


Thrive survive and live

It is what it is
A day of nothing or success using sieves
Carbonation in the soda pop making it fizz
Distinguished areas for hers and his
Individuals involved or infatuated with the showbiz
Don't get in...

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JOY and JINKS
                                ...

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A noble Black Oak tree stands tall and tranquil 
Wearing brown, old and dried crumpled leaves
Withstanding all autumn and winter storms
Without any distress or any grief
Golden fall is long gone, cold, wet season is also...

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NIGERIANS PRISONERS:
We are Nigerian prisoners,
We are not happy.
Where are our counterparts?
We are Nigerian prisoners,
Here we are,
Here we are like a cat.
We are calm and cool like, you.
Every Sundays we puts on jeans like,
Our brethren in...

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From old and new squabbles sprouts!
After some side boundary rules flouts:
Its own list of blood-freezing deaths submitting;
A number that would send the humane vomiting.

From time to time sharpening local knives,
Not excluded the spears one into...

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POET’S SPORTS 
We are poets,
We are happy,
We are magnets and sharpener,
We sharpens people,
We are poets,
We are happy,
We are great,
We are poets,
We cannot cover our faces,
For we are great,
We are behind the fall of great British,
But...

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Icebox Disaster
Only living son
Home from steamy jungles of New Guinea
Wearing strips of a Master Sergeant
Tales recounted from Australia – Sydney R & R –
In spear points and javelins;
Malaria still traced upon
A war tanned face;
No more...

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We met in rage, incarnadine fury,
meandered, then, became tenacious friends.
From wary circling hearts, we took the chance,
we joined our hands, we spun in place, we laid
a spiral architecture down, we formed
a spring, mosaic metal, powerful
enough...

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I move around campus
both hands twined on my back
I recall actions of notorious campus students
ripping apart useful pages
of book of the jungle with umbilical cord

Others, self-styled athletes
throw javelins as high as they can
tearing into rags
blankets...

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A concerted body of thought
Primes the guarded pump
Each driving rendition, a version
The sculpture of well attuned days

This time around
Jaundice backseat drivers
Underwhelmed by gangrene javelins 
Karmic mercury tipped for change

Directions of satan rearranged fallen
New features fitting...

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Stand and flight, or fly and flee,
The two choices we face.

Stand unmoving,
Or fly above.

Trampled by the world,
Torn to pieces by your “friends,”
Your family.
Facing it in solitude,
Going through it alone.

Take to the sky,
Avoiding the stones and...

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