SAILOR
All captains pull cold, old mainlands.
Never a valley.
The lad rises like a warm moon.
Ooh, desolation!
is a big gull.
Reefs like small shores.
Gulls travel!
The stormy sail fights the sailor.
grow like big captains.
7/4/19
written words by James Edward Lee Sr. ©2019
Lovely are your waves
Cloudy desolation;
Desire rise endured;
Misty yet clear calm;
Nature roars;
Cold, clear suns roughly desire a warm, dead wave;
Winds wave like clear mainlands;
The sunny lad swiftly views the whale;
~Love is a big sea~
3/30/19
written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2019©
ISALE EKO (LAGOS)
A rooster of discrete tongues
Culture, tradition
Where,
Zillion specters resonate
Quantum croak.
Cock crow,
Erupts whirl, barge at Alaba
Descry of sea of soul cases
Kibbling in, out as Emmet over nectar,
As husky ell of murk drench dawning,
Eviscerate NEPA's spasmodic spitfire
To stupor, obloquy.
The hindmost geezer nestling,
Drenched in diaphoresis of animation of dog days
Eludes unforgiving hail of bug blitz,
Hallowed howl of ole! ole!
Arched in his decrepit nest
Deploys a taper
Until,
Sunup deflowers night jaded sockets
As,
Resonance of one more Naira
To breast billion mark
Percase, perforce, precipitating
The epogee in mores
Rummages his cranium:
Top dog never capitulates
Vanquish countermands blossom
In kernel of hovel, wreck, quagmire
From mainlands of Iddo,
Bog of Badagry
To Favela of Ijora, Ilasamaja
Colonize the cocoon
Which,
Burgeoned Whiz Kid, Davido and Nollywood
Confuting phantasm
That,
Golden fleece
Is muted in the jaws of no man's land.
A colossus who never unwinds
No arrears in innuendos
Paris is your headrest
Rio de Janeiro your ottoman!
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