It’s one in the morning.
I zoomed into Lisa’s room
and threw myself on the bed where she lay reading
in a near virtuoso, Fosbury flop.
She bounced, jostled by my mechanical bed wave.
“I hate goodbyes,” I said, indignantly.
“You’re not strong on hellos” she said, not looking up.
“They’re so bone-marrow deep,” I went on, “they steal hope away.”
“Did that sound pretentious?” I asked her silence, a minute later, somewhat self-consciously.
Lisa took the yellow, #2-pencil out of her mouth—just long enough to answer.
When she studies, she chews on them, seemingly eating them like french fries.
“Yeah,” she says, “but I get cha.”
“I know,” I said, smiling at the ceiling, because in a rooted and real way, she always has.
I’d be a different person if we’d never met.
I feel very grateful for that.
“Your boy’s flown?” She asked, using her pencil to hold her page and finally looking up.
It was an ironic, near-rhetorical question, she knows he’s gone and she knows I know she knows he’s gone.
“Yeah,” I admitted.
.
.
Songs for this:
4am by girl in red
Don't Stop The Music by Rihanna
blushing! by BETWEEN FRIENDS
You want to feel like only girl
In world, who has such a lover
Who takes care of you like a pearl
For you, whose spell is night's cover
Is that a passion of the youth?
That like a stream of romance flows
Whose tender touch to soul can soothe
Whose affection as Flowerland grows
"Good Girl Gone Bad" I love a lot
As, in heart you've for someone zeal
Can't be opened love's fastened knot
Or, its to men a sex appeal?
March 06, 2022
"The melodies of Life"
Melodies that excite an old Tymer to think he is still in his prime! Perhaps he is as old as he desires to feel? I have no idea but these melodies are remedies like broken codes to a connection with no Earth!
Music lets me write stories Mother Theresa would have wanted to tell , perfect fairy tales that inspire life so each and everyone can sparkle. Rihanna was right , we are indeed Diamonds and we shine bright! My Radio silents tornadoes trapped within.
I groove , l move , l choose not to lose ! I am a brick! Tougher than the nails and hummer of negativity , the Voice of Sia or Adele heals the headaches of next week's exam , dad 's excessive drinking , Jason's inner demons ....the guitar of sweet Tropical Blues like Santana meets Elvis , Rock feeds my agression l am ready to face the devil and say l , l will not stop ! These melodies bring rain on a dry day.
Music is my life!
I love it when you laugh and smile,
At the same time, in my
delight I get sad.
Because I wish I could be the only
man while other men are animals
Àdùk?´, you're so beautiful
with those marks.
Don't be bothered about the city girls,
you got tribal marks not devil marks.
When you laugh I see a rihanna,
When you now decide to keep it
low I see a Michele Obama.
Àdùk?´ Onídìrí, follow me to the city,
I'll open a fashion hub for you
at the riverside of lekki.
?ni bíi ?kàn mi, please help
patch my broken ribs.
Àdùk?´ èmi ?w?n
When we've a daughter, we'll
name her Ar?`wà èkó (Lagos)
With your hands on her hair,
beautifulness will be a course
in the university.
Àdùk?´, dùk?´,
Shake those beads on your waist
for me and let's dance to Àpàlà
like sány?`rì ?`k?là.
Poet
Olajire Damilola Muyideen
(SmilingPen)
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Olajire Damilola Muyideen
must be love that makes me think this way.
or my mind that awake me on nights.
Same love my eyes display.
one my heart keeps pumping alright.
blood pacing through veins.
Your beauty adding delight.
I foresee no doubts nor vain.
when your eyes reflect more light.
must be love on the brain,
that making my heart burn.
must be love and my aim.
that makes to be who I shall gain.
you driving me crazy,
I think of you till I'm lazy,
my mind surrender to you hazy,
fall more with you when I am dizzy.
easy, is when making love to you.
I promise my life only ends at you.
dying for you is like living by you.
must be love on the brain,
that got me thinking this way.
written 01/05/2018
Rihanna Love on the brain.
By dusk, in a city of rich desert
I started a joke to my dear Nana;
On her deep country poetic voice and heart;
On her oral peace poem as ha, ha, ha.
To her shooting stars, I say aeroplane,
To her misty dusk, I prove dusty smog,
To her smoky chimneys, I point machine,
To her dancing breeze, I light up to smoke.
When she misses her naughty village birds,
I play the song of Rihanna so loud.
When the city burns golden stars, it hurts,
For she watched the winning of moon in bout.
When the village Mom must raid her boys home,
Beggars raid the poor hearts of passers-by.
When a bunch of peaceful town folk should roam,
Thousand half-busy-bunches foul the sky.
When I end my joke, I silently cry
For Nana is dreaming amidst my joke.
And that joke makes her poetic soul so dry
For Nana is dreaming amidst my joke.
For the contest "I Started A Joke"
Dated : 29 Nov 2017
Teach me to be
Ashamed and humbled
Cause at the moment
I'm so rumbled
I'm so boom
So thunder roll
Indeed my love
I'm a troll
I roar, resound
Reverberate
It's mindlessness
Looking for fate
It's mindlessness
Trying to grasp
Love and it's wisdom
Will make it last
I question You
So critically
posting some duets
Musical.ly
I'm unimportant
So sorry love
I know you're dealing
From high above
You are revealing
Inside my heart
You are appealing
I'm unable
To grasp your words
What I can pick
It is two swords
One on the left
One on the right
And I will go
With you to fight
So all the others
Will see the light
So all the others
See you shine bright
It's you my love
Makes me a knight
In front of you
death is afraid
As beside Hades
Your body laid
You reached sea bottom
Walked in abyss
I love you love
You're a bliss
A blessedness
Humbled I ask
For forgiveness
A beatitude
You are Nirvana
'f you had a voice
It'd be Rihanna
Day by day
You command to rise
Life with you love
It's Paradise
You've always been
You'll always be
Nothing can hide
As you're free
Smile for a mile
Stay here for a while
Your grace face and reality myth
Is something I can’t keep pace with
“You’re amazing just the way you are” – Bruno Mars “Just the Way You Are”
I quote singers because I don’t plagiarize…
I realize that they are grand in my wild eyes…
But, in my tame-wild daydreaming, I wish…
Someone would read this – to turn their day around like an anguish
In reverse…
You’re not a curse…
You’re a blessing from on high
It’s something I can’t deny…(sigh)
“Shine bright like a diamond” – Rihanna “Diamond”
Speechless because this song speaks through me…
These lyrics I am most fond of...I wish these lyrics is like a magic wand
That can take away all the pain of past’s rain…God is here, healing’s near, I sea…
I see crystal clear that I’m not the only one suffering
I’m like a YouTube video, sometimes buffering
But, I am an incomplete masterpiece . . .
I want to give you chaos no more, but of peace…
Without the media involved
But, that’s another poem to polish up on…a riddle unsolved…
(the series inspired by “Clown” by Korn and “Clown” by Emeli Sandé)
Melanin
Girl, your melanin is POPPIN’
You woke up like that
You’re flawless
Yo’ skin is mixed with caramel and chocolate
As dark as night
Or as light as honey
Yo’ hair is so big and curly
You turn heads when you come into a room
Everyone becomes blinded by your glory
You’re feeling yourself…
Feeling your melanin
You are magical
You walk with an air of confidence
One that no one can deny
Erykah, Lauryn, Sade
Nicki, Rihanna, Beyoncé
Taught us self-respect
Taught us never to settle for less
Taught us to love ourselves
To love our melanin
Rihanna takes a bath in two scoops of ice-cream
Gaga fans made a lots of wind as Pink rosy on the cheeks
wrapped in a linceul twirled a rope
revere the faithful for a smile
as no limo here to ride a fiat
the found almost a fiacre
coming from Cuba I do not surf the past
open the keys and lime the way to pies for every one
JZ my subway I M the ride
exchange of blues
wear the hood.
at any hours I chance to walk the streets of black as white I share the shade of skin
and if mistakes are mades not my problem
the cops were not here for me as they shoot you on day light with no questions
I had to amend their lies that I fell loosing my identity in the middle of the night to the try on ATM at the corner coming from work serving the Rihanna making us wait for an umbrella and a scoop of vanilla ice cream Spike lee so small in the booth
I am mighty living with harry smith in my aviary and allen ginsberg visiting on regular basis of past they both died
brother
tangled metal
entwined
like hate filled lovers
unnatural
unnessary
a radio plays
a rihanna song
disbeliving eyes
wish upon heavenly stars
forgive me Jesus
of my sins
this is not the way
it’s meant to be
I have sworn off women
but I can't control my dreams
Beyoncé and Rihanna are trying to corrupt me
At least that's the way it seems .
The skimpy outfits they were wearing
Took away my breath
and on a winters night like this
I thought they might freeze to death.
They told me they would soon warm up
and what they were going to do
I know women have no stamina
but at least I'm getting two.
Now I'm a confident sort of guy
With a very open mind
but even I was shocked by their knowledge
Of a very carnal kind .
Then they started calling me Wyatt Earp
I thought my peacemaker must be so long, hard and slick
Beyoncé said , Don't kid yourself honey
Its because you shoot so quick .
Women .
Even in dreams they have to have the last word.
I know that you are seeing someone else,
I'm not there when you close your eyes,
I believe that you are kissing me,
Knowing I love the way you lie.
I hear those three words from your lips,
If love is even possible, it's impossible to cry,
Though I know your heart is not truly mine,
I will always love the way you lie.
Your arms hold me as if you care,
My wise heart still wonders why,
Pretending that everything is alright,
Because I love the way you lie.
When I kiss you I think about nothing,
Wishing it wasn't you when I open my eyes,
I wonder, if I told you the truth,
Would you love the way I lie?
Written for Just That Archaic Poet's contest - "Sing To Me"
Inspired by the song "Love The Way You Lie Pt. 2" by Rihanna ft. Eminem
No one can love you till you learn to
love yourself.
I learned that when i fell and went
through hell and came back as
someone else.
Rihanna ft. Eminem (love the way you lie)
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