Long Lacuna Poems

(a poem by Aare Tunde Dawood-Akerele) 
Sympathizing with every motherless child. 

The Pain of Motherlessness 
Is far beyond measure 
Especially for a green mind. 

Begins from the shock of announcement 
To illusion of preparing the...

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As Medusa walks in, shuts the door,
caresses precision hand down the mahogany-
and shows one what for.

Senses in starbursts-cloudburst
flavor crystals accenting- your bloom 
of predicate corpus, cat claws in my brain, 
comes metamorphosis-
Led mushrooming depth of...

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Homo sapiens in earth to Homo Martians in mars
Helios’ children craved
But only Gaia had life in her fate engraved
With waters lashing oceans and tides
And lushy green lands to live by the sides
Her children were the...

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To vt
Gorgeously graceful the group of three
Great gals emit grin with glee
Exuberant energy encompasses
All the excitement and surpasses
Ethnicity finds its abode
In form of their drapes adored
South Indian bevy with bewitching smile
Thus goes an extra mile
One...

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The Trojan of our heroic struggle
The heroic struggle against chains
Which beckons with pains
That tends to make us insane
For we are already stained 
As they offer us disdain
Nowhere but in the scorchy rain

From the cradle lipping...

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... stalactites hung like dystopian snot from a statue 

her brain was frozen and formed ice in her mind

a lacuna without inlet or outlet arrested in time

mind’s skates tied up in bundles of snowflakes

gloves off...

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It was a shock 
Even though I didn’t check the clock
That colorful approach blew my mind
Cause it was seldom to find

Prior to this time, panted my heart 
like never before
My system shook in search of...

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I am the face of misery
My life, a dissonance of autumn and spring,
The years are written in the same
Lugubrious, nostalgic grey
How can it be the author to blame?
I cannot scream this all away…
Burn nor Bleed...

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I WILL BE A MAN
Tough time never last but tough people do
LOrd give the guidance to know when to
Hold on and when to let go of my madness
And the grace to make the right decision
With...

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Beautiful memories will always remain florid every night and morn,
Like a cooling shower that caress the wall of fruitful emotion,
Whose drop is an antidote and a vane of stupefaction 
That warms the pad of feelings...

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Open space within an embrace
My trials are almost done
Executioner tales I failed
While the rest I don't recall
 
Poetry became a backbone
Each time my eye struck twelve
A masterpiece I strive for
But humbly feel I've failed
 
A...

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A quiet storm made its way
Feelings strewn and blown astray
Enamored in one another were we
In turns a desperation to be free
Lost in each other, thus
A soft-focused portrait of us
Harsh and cold are the fates 
As...

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I had waited all day long
I had waited all night long
I had waited enough beyond enough.
I had waited basking in the 
Euphoria of a dream in my dream
I had waited long enough
Forgetting that I am...

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The value of books


Late afternoon, the sun has left the terrace and is in the back throwing up dust before reluctantly slinking west and sinking 
into the sea beyond the seas.
The townscape is charming red-roofed...

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The Mariner ashore

the night in the hallway paled into a yellowish screen
showing a black&white movie ca 1963
A time machine of memories sent him back to the years 
to meet people long since gone.
A family at...

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It is another calibration of my journey,
pre-ordained but shrouded
in the belly I perceived in childhood,
distant signals, stuttering, 
of flight a soul could make
beyond the apogee of earth        ...

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London bridge has fallen
The queen of England has lost her crown
London bridge has fallen
The queen of England has lost her crown
No more watchman on the wall 
And Humpty Dumpty done hit the ground 
.
The river...

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Tough to rule, a throne you forged in stone,
the weight of time, it seems to sink so calm.
For you, the king of all that gone,
you seem to rule alone.

I learned that fire burns with rage.
Although...

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Wonderful wonders woven within wild. 
Titillates theatrical tender thoughts
Consistently creation, contrives conservation concerns. 
Ecology evolves equations, entitling entities essence.
Empowering equality, enlarges existence.
Life lovingly leases Longevity.
Biodiversity braces, blatant brutal balding.
Deforestation, destruction devoid due definition.
People physically, plundering...

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IMO EX PECTORE NOSTRAM EXPRESSIO (My Heartfelt Expression)

We're one, heart to heart, soul to soul,
Reeling from exclaiming set-go,
Our heart cry echoes roll,
Get cuddled in many arms flow,
Whimsically fostering you like the surviving bigbro;
Be my circus...

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Traipsing o'er rare daffodil dawn,
Honeysuckle trails a passage forlorn,
Passionate filters pacified carnation yon,
Shelter rose prickly poised stem-filled thorn.

Blues hover facing angry clouds,
Sunrise sprung anew yellows brighten,
Sunset made reds to blazon shade crowds,
Grey dusk looms whilst...

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Last night the Alder so deeply rooted in the hedgerow
was shot through by a bolt of climatic vulnerability.
I heard the smoking gun,
heard the clangorous salvo, the snap and break,
heard the unflexed crook of it pivot...

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sawed-off on the
crimson emerald from a cloudy sky

squeal
and, at times, the reason
low-slung why

sparkles of a pearly salver
modicum of encrusted damask mist

befuddles me
albeit

moon, amber, and opalescence
spawn a charming sight

the perspective
strikes each crevice of the flesh.
and psyche...

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Enjoying myself, in a deserted world
Strolling down, unchaperoned.

Ran into someone, 
Who knew he would be my heaven.
Eyes locked, piercing eachother's soul.
When realization hitted, sorrys are traded
Amplifying the beat, we left hoping to meet.

Days went, new...

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The Aphotic rays reach higher
And shame, shade reigns over all
Lacuna, Apathy is all I feel as I fall into the ashed grave
I'm living, the slowest way to die
Elysia, rapture where are you now

What will I...

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