Long Wailings Poems

As darkness absorbed in my reveries, my usual lapse accommodated itself in height of melancholy but not in this conscience. Then I found myself in my room and my window opened. Everything in upheaval, a...

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As the peacock-sage 
waves of whimsical peace
faded in silence's 
pale watercolors, 
I masked my 
eerie eyelashes, 
with drifting 
angel-mist smog. 
For, I sensed the 
wistful wailings of 
ambrosial lilies, 
encased in my 
heart's crystal casket,...

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Dawn broke
The eastern pink sky
Drew across the stars
As they faded and lost to the night

 

I called the eagle
To guide me
Piercing whistle
That I learnt as a boy
Running wild and free

 

I walked in the company...

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Farewell 2014, God Bless You
               Good years pass in a wink
      The cup is broken before...

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Through the blue and frosty heavens 
Far-off stars were shining bright; 
Glistening lamps throughout the City 
Almost matched their gleaming light; 
While the winter snow as lying, 
And the winter winds were sighing, 
Long ago,...

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*Image of Pendulum by Pixabay.

Of Fatalism

'Tis past the eleventh hour,
As time ...,
Here in the bunker,
I walked away from the Atomic Clock whose pendulum terminated its sway,
Walked I, away from expressionless gazes of our hereafter,
Longings tethered...

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Many moons and many seasons have passed
since you journeyed faraway to alien shores without a word from you, 
save a portrait of yourself clad in fine linen.

Every night, I see you in my dreams in...

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“Remember that funny joke I played on Louise in college? “ Mouse asked me.
She was in full-blown laughter mode now. She had hiccups and tears when she finally almost stopped,
Mouse, my jokester friend, has been...

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REMEMBER US THIS WAY

I look back on the memories we’ve had sometimes ago
When life was free for every one of us, both young and old
When hiding in dilapidated buildings wasn’t a survival technique
And death was...

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the Pit of Hell
I had dream
a broken thoughts
Of strange nightmares
darkened my dark

Lighted by thick darkness
no rules no responsibility no order
beautified by darkness melody by wailings
Coloured by horrors,
horrors you have never never seen

In the fragility of...

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I Pilgrim Seeking Truth Before The Grave

The night so craves,
the languishing moonlit echoes of the seas
 yet the blood in this poor soul, strives to save
the immense beauty of earth, sky and trees
I,  pilgrim...

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The 
appetite 
is 
wet,
The 
aroma 
is 
great,
Roses 
emitting 
a 
pleasing 
scent,
Tongue 
yearning 
for 
a 
taste,
The 
mind 
becomes 
restless 
and 
quickly 
shifts 
to 
a 
bad 
state,
Because 
the 
belly's 
vacuum 
has 
to 
be 
occupied 
in 
haste.
A 
battle...

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When I Rethink Glory Days Of My Youth

When I rethink glory days of my youth
I always find some sad and bitter truths
First is, world and reality always bites
And to rise above, one must always fight
Be...

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Beneath this sordid stanzas storm swept night

Such eroglyphics; frost upon the warping window panes

Oozing opaques of blood red crimson, bleeding from burnt sashes

Crying ashes, screaming amid the rain....

"Do you really know pain," they asked

As the...

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"Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from an autumn tree."

                       ...

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I was standing at the edge
I saw it coming
I could smell its scent
I had this feeling at the pit of my stomach

My heart was taking forever
Slow but sure it was coming to a halt
Death was...

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Stepping through these shadows wherein somber does so dwell?! 

Peering into the pangs of bleak in this its, vectors abode....  

Chained, unto sorrows void and cast amid the dungeons of grims 

Poisoned paths, to...

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Dear Covid-19, 
Life was a rainbow till you came and replaced the chirping of happy birds, the laughter with our families and friends with the wailings of the ambulances’ siren 

The swing on our playgrounds...

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Take of a turn of three
time to talk of penumbra tales
beneath a taramond tree
trials and wailings of two lives in the vale

The life of young from it infancy
thence gradual, conventional neither fantasy
the sweetest of them...

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Let us celebrate
This is not time to denigrate
Nigerians rise and jubilate
Cause we are poised to rethink and meditate
  
Let us roll out the drums
This is not the time to keep mum
Let the air be...

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last night i tried to sleep
but each time i went i failed
i heard the wailings of dead poets
who begged me tell their tales
their tales were very scary
i tried not to listen
but their pleas were very...

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Darkness clipped this enclave,
As we wake to this new dawn.
It eroded our minds.
Our days turned nights!
Our nights turned days!

Our cries swim across our continent's borders,
We craft tents and hear wailings,
From our forsaken lands,
In our makeshift...

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spiritus sanctus
and frankincense
fill the air saturated
with women's tears
and unending sobbing

they think not
of their own 
truths be told
that the taken
is hopefully

going heaveningly
bound if words
we're binding
and he
abiding

so let
the Romans
sleep and
wake
the Irish

the screams and
wailings are really
laughter and cheer
for...

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I must have a generous heart
I once was a foreigner, an upstart
Now I am birth-born again
Now I am a new and changed man

I must have a forgiving spirit
I must listen to peoples pleads and cherish
All...

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When it comes to all my sorrows 
what do I do with them 
Do I place them in a paper cup 
and pour them down the sink 
Do I take a mallet to them 
and...

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