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Wazobia Land

WAZOBIA LAND
Choicelessly I appear
On a tinctured lopsided land
A land with the best brains
But with the least development
A land flowing with milk and honey
But her sons and daughters are kwashiokored
A land favoured by nature 
But cursed by greed
A land beautifully painted with diversity
But cursed by bigotry and sectionism
A land that has bidden equity and justice farewell
A land where sanity is sane
A land where cabalism rules
But democracy is portrayed
A land where we have the rule of men
And not the rule of law
A land where the gavel-holders are big-pocketed men
And not the judge
A land where “khakimen”  oppress
And not defend
A land that has square pegs in its round holes
A land I wish I had a choice before coming into.
                                                                YEMI AFO


Premium Member Soul's Message To Her Human Heart

Light, essence white shines in beauty, eyes green,
human heart, spirit’s hull, please don’t despair,
life, your trials tinctured light-dark I’ve seen..,
you’re never alone; with you I am here.

Mortal being -- sainted soul -- hand in hand,
partnered; life’s pebbled footpaths, we do share.
Someday, we’ll traverse azure’s Promised Land..,
you’re never alone; with you I am here. 

Free will; color palette pastel choices,
through hues of happiness or stains of fear,
muted disappointments, rich rejoices..,
you’re never alone; with you I am here.

Each tint a test each shade a solution,
lift song’s surrender to Him in prayer,
till final breath – Divine absolution..,
you’re never alone; with you I am here.


Susan Ashley
September 7, 2017


~ Second Place ~
Contest: Poems That Paint a Picture
Sponsor: Silent One

*based on painting by Saatchi provided by Silent One on contest page
Form: Rhyme

Untrodden Path

Suddenly we appear
On a land with tinctured atmosphere
The cross, the moon and star
A sovereign state more ethnical than wazobia

A smooth and broad path before us
Hungry for our feet to break the hush
Alas the road becomes starved
With thorns and thistles upwardly breaking its soil

Like the ape, bigotry evolves
Extremist in every nook and cranny
Untamed by the scepter and khaki 
Callously murdering people in cold blood

Enemies of peace lurking around
Refusing to walk in the path of love
Killing people with façade of hide and skin
The unpunished traitors of love and nationalism

Dedicated to those who lost their lives in Southern Kaduna massacre
										YEMI AFO (2017)

Premium Member Delirious Denouement

Delectable daze
aligned aesthetic
shimmered swoon
          of
bespoke ripples
svelte meander
induced isthmus
vapour vaulting
veracity stoic
conscious cognizant
bard assimilating
aureate  archways
            seismic
rendered relish
goading effervescent
literary lullaby
          interwoven
opportune foramen
tinctured chasm 
or otherworld
fractured frisson
        bejewelled
template tempter
sonic madrigal 
       enticing
creative lunge
toward tiered
vanilla visuals
for
ethereal lyric
deft minstrel
of
fermented finesse. 
lithe moulder
authorised pen
     swimming
enigmatic estuaries 
 whilst 
dance retinue 
sunshine swathes
 pivotal pirouette
          spawning
erudite enjambment 
satin weave  
gossamer lens
     whose 
amaranthine fixed
focus eschews
bland doggerel
      instead
chatoyant cynosure
replenished quill
    lacquers
indigo imbued
bunting’s warble
          inducing
hypnotic  portrait
surreal verse
       delirious
weave web
unravelled
dream denouement
     of 
epic entablatures

Premium Member Lovers Drink

Tempting balm tonics reposed fantasist,
Panacea liquifies mirage views,
Crafts allusive lofts energies persist,
Twain heart's favor lips a desire to schmooze.

Elixir defines the gist of lovers,
Exposes the length of listed measures,
Hearts and souls, supernatural pleasures,
Cascade gifted juice as meant lips puckers.

Charts a course of innumerable sips,
Bottled refinery impatient lips,
Passion extremes supple to its excess,
Forward sweethearts immortal kiss access.

Tinctured herbs ripen souls remarkably,
Drink-filled lovers strengthen eternally.


2019 October 15


Rhyme scheme; abab, cddc, eeff, gg
howmanysyllables;
14 lines x 10 syllables per = 140 syllables total
Form: Sonnet


Colors of Birth

This chair has chipped paint.     
Its shadow gangly 
in the light spilling through 
the window. A deep 
buttercup bisque steeps.

Through this stream, ember
motility of curdled 
cream seeps into pores.
The seat embraces. Blood
colors sugar soft.


Fragments of dust waver
around the chair. Like 
the suspended stars, or
the pixel points on 
an LCD screen. Crumbs.

Feathers stick to the cheeks, 
to be brushed off,
puff into the heavens.  
Egg -white tinctured coat
wilts within the humid

air. Like the jaundiced 
skin you wished to shed
when you first sundered
the sheets this morning.
This chair rocked my great

grandmother and her
children, and mother. Creaks
like an anchored boat.
Exposed grey brown wood 
perishes, stabs the skin.

Like the chilled sea tinted
eyes: an ingress tears 
the hushed air- a summons: 
her son. Long ago 
an apollyon. Starless.

The chair will be kindle
in September, sand-
peach colors imbued, 
flushed like the candied
burn of Fall. Her flames.

Relive the fire
in the sky; salt waters
plum green, oily.
tauten red orange arms.
War in the distance-

better. The rose portrait,
diabolus shades stain
a cimmeran- tinted 
loss, wound. Chalk inhaled.
And the blaze of two black 

holes colliding. Wraiths.
The winter of her life,
within which a lurid
spirit-thin webbed cross
bleeds ash. Freezes; clots.
Form: Shape

To Love What Sunset Never Seen

To some such a thing would seem to be
A waste like sunsets never seen
Whose brilliant splash of corporeal hues
Ignites a moments symmetry
The saffron fires, the sizzled throes
The tinctured celestial overtones
Of all that light in bending makes
Of all that nature shares of soul.
He stopped upon the edge of sea
And cast an eye so stolidly
With withered gaze he glanced
Its vivid, lancing memory
The final fury of a sphere
Whose tumult lights our world
Passed with dual gravity
Beyond our earthly rill.
To such some men would dare compare
That mortal strain whose sweet despair
Brings only candor to the soul
But leaving leaves man there
To love what sunset never seen
Has cast its rabid sultry sheen
Upon the waning noon of life
And leaving woken naught the night

Premium Member Holy Glorious To the Highest Praise Hail Hallelujah

HOLY GLORIOUS TO THE HIGHEST PRAISE HAIL HALLELUJAH

Much I marveled
The spiritual doxology
The sacred sobbing
Holy! Glorious I rejoiced I, Yes We Holy-Holy

HOLY GLORIOUS TO THE HIGHEST PRAISE HAIL HALLELUJAH

And the alto basses were daubing
Singing their Hallelujah higher and highest praises
Take thy paschal sacrificial lamb from out my hearting beats
As I throw my exhortation upon the floor raised

HOLY GLORIOUS TO THE HIGHEST PRAISE HAIL HALLELUJAH

That moment my soul my spirit grew
Tinctured praises and raised fingers
Saints and Angels yet singing
Holy! Glorious I rejoiced we all voices sing yes to your will Holy-Holy

HOLY GLORIOUS TO THE HIGHEST PRAISE HAIL HALLELUJAH

Deep into that darkness sticking
In their stepped a non-religious
The plainchant, they say “Don’t go nonreligious”
Says the sinners, the saints and the atheists

Everyone
Rains with voices shouting
Holy! Glorious we rejoiced we all every knee bowed, every tongue shouts and sings
HOLY GLORIOUS TO THE HIGHEST PRAISE HAIL HALLELUJAH
PRAISE HAIL HALLELUJAH HOLY GLORIOUS TO THE HIGHEST
HOLY GLORIOUS TO THE HIGHEST PRAISE HAIL HALLELUJAH
TO OUR LORD, OUR GOD OUR KING


11/19/20
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr.2020©
from Anthology "JUST JESUS"
Form: Lyric

Premium Member Two Drops of Tears

*****;;; *****


l.
tears rip at the seams of memories’ betrayed  trust
like liquid fists gushing through desolate waterfalls
gargling bloodied sobs upon lungs lumped with crust,
wet, wet on crumbled sagas  of  tortured, brick walls

this is the pang of swallows falling dark… the pain,
of a painful tear ravished by sins doubly committed
by spiked wrists  slit by eyes’ deceit  on pelted rain,
cracks of tinctured vapors stain these suds not quite acquitted

                   

ll. 
still, there are tears robed in delight of embroidered nights
and perching there, radiance’s rafters spin overlapping joy,
swarming the soul with giant suds  whitening all whites
as  giggles  lift cottoned pillows only love’s fullness can buoy

i think of rekindled homes knighted by flutes’ ripeness
where children paddle days virginal without attic of fears
a maze of hoisted jaunts open zipped stars’ need for madness,
in times marinated gingerly sweet by life’s lush beat... such are tears,

they cleanse all. they crawl out of soul’s  dual spears.


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(( for HGarvey Daniel Esquire's " Personify a Tear ))
     by nette onclaud
Form: Rhyme

The River

A canal, far away,
was built many years ago 
for the ships' passage

between two oceans. 
A river, near me, slowly 
flows, floats the barges.

And, years ago, 
this dove- colored river 
was open for the wars.

Today, distant lights 
on the river are a moon's
glow, and one or two

are stars, that poke the dusk
through the hush of falling snow,
to the Summer warmth

of a shelter, where 
onyx tinctured mares have wings,
to fly through at night.

Their snow-white wings
are soft as flour, and their hooves
are as magical

as the Ruby Shoes 
in the dream.They tear through, weave
tatters into fear.

They tat a net,
with the silky gleam of tinsel,
to catch the diamonds

that prick the sky, cut
into an artist's canvas,
who paints this nightmare..

the very edge of 'morn
spills cream hues, lifts up a gold
rose. The river sparkles.

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