Long Not my cup of tea Poems

It's said that a house is not a home
rather, home is where the heart is
I can agree with this statement
Of course, I have a wife and 2 growing kids
And when it’s time to go to...

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It was a long walk, with time heeling at my shadow. 
(and somewhere miles away the garage door closed, and the exhaust flowed,
and a small dog died in her limp arms)
I was friendly with God....

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Open the book of history chapter 19
Allow your shadow to roam on its surface, turn to verses twenty and 
wait. trace your finger forward, keep going; then Stop! Do you see that word corruption marked...

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My hair is mostly white with streaks of black here and there
My white hair marks me as “aged” --- is that fair?
I don’t think or feel old (to which my body keeps disagreeing)
Just let me...

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POETS ARE POOR


Omawumi birthed venom yesterday
She won't marry me again because
I am a poet, she said poets are poor
Is my pen not worthy to buy her make up?
If poetry gives no money I will still...

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If only you could just scan the
Screen of that scene Hollywood 
Dream! Lately though I been thinking
Of seeing a matinee and that the time
Is right. Yet instead I'd just rather
Be fed the glamorous life. I...

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You completed me before in the past; however, now, you h-
hurt me…you hurt me emotionally and emotional pain hurts the most 
(You lost the affection we shared that I adored – oh Lord of accord...

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Verse 1
Holy Mayorkas, you have been reproved
I have seen the illegals you are letting through
Distant hordes from down the line
Brand of people who ain’t my kind
Holy Mayorkas, you should be removed

Verse 2
Holy Joseph, you are...

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If they like let petrol be one 
thousand naira at the station,
It is not my business not at all
I will still have my tea taken 
Every morning with Agege bread.


If they like let them find...

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Sometimes some lost and lonely housewife I know well and knew put glossy
lip stick on and subtle pastel shade mascara plucked his brows and shaved
the pits of desperation the dust and grime the secretive desire...

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Last Meet 

         In evening I reached
       the glass house in my garden
        ...

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Not wanting to carry my own chair
Yet, for sure somewhere out there
Someone, behind the scene, likes my poetry
Not by its message, nor by its poetic artistry
 
Perhaps, they just simply like it 
Some may not,...

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An Ode to A levels

I thought I would try A levels, how hard could it be? 
Since then I have concluded, it’s not my cup of tea.
Brainwashed into obsessing over grades on a test, 
They...

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One fine day, when it was too hot
best to sit before a cooler I thought

to sit idle is not my cup of tea
I picked a magazine to see

one recipe just held my attention
let me cook...

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Splattering dried soil upon my face 
Lying on that bed for a space 
Space for stars, rainbows, and the moon I plunged my eyes; the sky took me into a room
 An inch of fumes...

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My head is ringing off the hook yet my thoughts are disconnected
i try bridging the gap to see the big picture
but my view is past due & i have no choice but to respect it
CLEARLY...

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Company's coming, must clean house
Pretend it's immaculate every day
Why must we put on airs for our visitors
Just show 'em our every day way

It's all a big front this illusion we create
It's never gonna be the...

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Never really quite understood,
so mind boggling it's just no good,
Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity.

E=mc2 he defined as Energy
equals Mass times twice Velocity -
but what's that to a poor wage earner like me?

Armstrong got to the...

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If I offend,
let the reason be pure

Should my presence spoil your thoughts,
let not a shadow of doubt
be cast secular

When I move against the status quo grain,
fermented feelings of many
stir amber waves of murmuring
I sense the...

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Calling to the world from within my four walls
Is not my cup of tea
Maybe beer.

The humming birds die due to cellphone frequencies
I have decided to quit talking
Scavenging on littered words
Had never been my kwan
The truce...

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Oh, this is not my cup of tea!
Woke up yesterday with a foot in agony.

A wheelchair from my Mom, I had.
Luckily for me, as my left foot that was very bad.

My daughter and grandson came...

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Free Verse -To Be So Inspired!


Love other's giving but free verse is just not my cup of tea
feeling lost without my ever so comforting rhyme and symmetry

Good friends many hopeful pleas begged me to post...

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Be kind to others, greet them happily
It shall set your heart free, believe you me
Good always wins out, as it ought to be
I find that it is so, believe you me

Let little things go, give...

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Every morning it’s my habit not so new
of drinking from a brimful cup,
the piping hot reviving brew,
as from bed I listlessly get up.

I try various types of tea and their progeny,
herbal, green, brown and even...

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Cozy On The Universe

In the middle of the room, in the middle of a thought
In the middle of the mind, in the afternoon, in kitchen
The universe intruded through the walls
Without knocking it simply imposed itself
No...

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