Long Trade wind Poems

It is time for them to run  

In the Jersey Shore tourist sun  

Continuing their three-year-old campaign  

Feeling the warmth of youthful fame  

Before being sent out to be studs ...

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MY NEIGHBOR KOFI
LOCATION: Mazamaza, Lagos, Nigeria:
My neighbor kofi, 
The computer scientist
At 34,
He crisscrossed, jetcrosed, redcrossed,
And hobnobbed around the globe:
Kathmandu, Acapulco and the Galapagos 

He dined and wined
Like there was no tomorrow 
He dined and wined...

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Love me now
Love me today

Wait not, 
for tomorrow
Tomorrow waits, 
today waits not!

Let me know, today,
you love me
show me, today,
you will love me, tomorrow

Let today be the beginning,
of tomorrow, 
let it be the beginning,
of always and...

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Trade wind!
Bring me back in the days I was as small as a seed
Glimmering and growing under glass
I feel nostalgic for those days
When time was countless
Oh God of heavens!
I wish those days they didn’t stop
Because...

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Behold the flageolet wizard wand — 
at each windpipe end,
it toe tag taps the same dirge sound

Abominable Gomorrah black buries
to the left
Vile Yeti blinking Babel blue buries
to the right

This voodoo mint stick
shows you the same...

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My Weathered Deck


          At this time through which I am the lead
            With days flowing...

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Britain sets sail to find a deal.
A lengthy voyage now starts.
The captain plots the way ahead
with complex EU charts
from the Maritime Directive
in all its ninety parts.

Oh what a frightful sea to sail
to reach the land...

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I saw you riding the wild waves
cool trade-wind breezes blowing,
through your long dark curly hair; 
dropping off the lip in adrenaline rush
through spectacular silver liquid tubes
as you obsessed glassy spiral perfection
so wantonly barrel dragging your...

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Death! A lifeboat adrift on a sea 
with sailors who are mates of mine. 
Thirst and hunger we all shall be 

it is hard to think of a tougher time. 
As a hot sun burns...

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Forecast
raise mast

Air mass
eat grass

Storm front 
bear brunt 

Blue skies
time flies 

Dark clouds 
dull  crowds

Wet spell
from hell

Sunshine 
divine 

Strong gust 
disgust 

Gale force 
morose 

Lightning 
blighting

Thunder
blunder  

Spring tide 
I cried 

Rainbow 
eye glow

Wide trough
chest...

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With billowed sails the Schooner glides across the open sea
The crew secures the rigging as they’ve done through history
Port side there’s a Humpback coming up to take a look
They watch in pure amazement its like...

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Chalk-white faces, chapped lips and infected footsoles,
Harmattan, she has come again, announcing her 
presence like a proud royalty's entourage.

Mothers clad their infants in thick clothes 
like north pole elves,
motorcyclists cruise around town with watery eyes...

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As tangy waft  careens into my mind
To softly rouse a glittering twilight,
I frolic with the northern breeze, refined 
On imprints of an ever- threading night. 

And copper-like, my senses mildly clothed
with fibrils tracing ripples...

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Scripted be these endless visions the faithful child; candy-striped....
Sugar coated vertical horizons ? Romanesque, their arches round'about
Obsidian's encircling glass and dark her ages skipping squares your, pyramids
Agamemnon's, subservient generations far from unique their trojan horse,...

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The to and fro 
From pillar to post 
The immortal forget the reason of the journey 
Who will tell others the view of the journey?
All have eyes and ears 
And later know road to life...

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Golden streams of fresh sunshine flush the day
bringing esoteric  galleons to bay
filled from a pointed hull to shapely stern 
exulting teas and spices badly yearned 

Subdued by scents of affection afloat
passions spill in quills...

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Ocean depression
Clouds pulled in by low pressure
Suck inside moisture.

Hurricane is born
Eye follows the track blindly
The trade wind decides.

Distant shore attracts
Hurricane rushes lands hard
With windstorm and rains.

High waves surge inland
Storm flattens things on the way
Rains flood...

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In 100 Years

In 2118 will there still be love
as we ride in driverless cars?
We will have used the Earth all up
for real estate on Mars.

In 2118 will there still be war
when all cancer can be...

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