Ransome Poems - Poems about Ransome

The Ransome Note

...What is blackmail catering to one's 
own soul capturing fear in a mason jar 
watching the panting the empty air 
dissolving the beautiful wings extorting 
the brilliant hue manifested overtime
 ...

The Devil of a Deal

...Where will tomorrow take us
Only God alone can tell
A brighter future a cloudless day
Or an earthly living Hell 
How much of its our doing
How much is down to me
Is the fate laid out before us
...

Pathogen Given Provision

...Ocean girdled nation had prospect for absolute containment
Overseas observers, in distant comfort, complacent 
Wuhan origin arrivals sparked a catastrophic failure
Leaving lock down 25th January, ...

Regret

...The road is long, the distance too great
I struggle alone in this distant path
I let pride guide me-a most vicious evil!
Words were spoken and hearts were broken
Now all to my name is but a bag o...

This Is Lagos

...This is Lagos-
a welcoming address to all dignities
an old sermon preached by three wisemen
no praises or pleasantries at the entrance gate
Come and face your death or life warrant
in a no man's...

Apocalypse Boko Haram

...Last night,
when laid i my head to rest,
dreamt i a dream
dreadful;
I wept,though i was a deep in sleep,
I saw a baobab tree with three branches,
on it lays the colony of three birds of the 
a...

Song of Saint Patrick - Part 3 - Return

...III
Return

Patrick had to deter the robbers 
	And thieves he met along the road,
		Ward off viscious creatures,
	Yet steadily he strode
			Until, at last, he came upon
				A landmark he well knew
		...

Reparations

...A man's first right is to his own country:
That place by choice that was his father's hope
Before. His breathing make its history,
Its death is his shackles, his dream its scope.
This was the first d...

The Bartering

...And even after night became dawn
After confession tumbled priest and pawn
I still wish, forever, O you did come
Push back the cubicle to your face
What joy there could tell ransome
What opportunity o...

Insight

...My prickly rose is dropping bush
And what a litter of dead mass
It leaves the bright emotions hush
And wary of the winsome wasp
But there is a bud quickening sun
And a gentle rain to come
After the b...

Bill

...Nothing Common In This World Is Given Freely,
Without Some Kind Of Out-Standing "Bill" No Matter
What The Case Everything, And Everyone Demands
A Price N' Cost Before The Ransome Note Is Given.

Stan...

God Will Be First

...When to Jordan bank I came 
No where to go, I could not cross 
I knelt all broken and ashame 
Then a man stood there to carry me across 

Cho. 
Put your feet in the water he said 
And set the ark bef...

Some Sweet Day

...Some sweet day I will be singing
Songs angels cannot understand
Earth's sorrows done, triumph winging
And I am in the promiseland

Some sweet day I will be singing
Songs of praise to the Gracious kin...

Debbie Guzzi - a Rejoinder

...Great mentor, of my virtual paradise
Half muse, half woman
Yet between the spirit and the flesh
Still of all compassion full
Do you still come to read and stretch your time
In full ease with discomfo...

A Request For Silence

...Let there be no words until the night is gone
For tomorrow will come again
Let all tongues sleep until the wake of dawn
Night in dreams dissolves the pain

Hush all voices until tomorrow, my love
I k...

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