Short Manacles Poems

In four and sixty syllables
He strains to squeeze some thoughts profound
Into unyielding manacles
Of 8x8 form, tightly-bound.
He seeks to hand-pick words that sound
Unforced by metric obstacles
That sing and sensibly expound -
In short, do verbal miracles!...

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Break away the manacles of fear
Get up and get away from here
Out into the great, great yonder
Scratch that incessant itch of wonder

Follow the steam of your heart
Chug, chug, chug on down the tracks, apart
And with your beautiful mind fly, fly into 
The vastness of a beautiful new...

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I am an early riser, usually between 4 and 5 a.m. 
That's my quiet time for reading, and thinking,
And sometimes writing. 
I especially enjoy it when, 
After a pre-dawn shower,
I can look out my window and see,
In the apricot light of dawn,
To the spattering applause of rain,
The miscreant predatory night
Being borne reluctantly away
In manacles of rainbows.
...

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Could it your fancy tickle:
The fluid you need does trickle;
Legs once free like vehicles
On Stopped Feet of Manacles?

Won’t it up get one’s hackles
That one often tasks tackles
Others’ Wrists not in shackles
For what one down to buckles?

You others tag ‘The Fickle’
Fit only for the sickle;
Expo sure to ridicule:
Lots of  in Article
That you know “Just Bicycle”
Swearing on “No Icicle!”

Honestly, I won’t like it,
Though shan’t jump into a pit!...

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Unchaining the chained
Is my ultimate gain
Life we live is of chain
Full of manacles and shackles

Let we unchain the chained
Legs and hands under siege
Even our head and mouth
Cannot be free of doom
Can we ever leave above the gloom?
In chain we desire freedom
For our land is full of boom.


Alayande Stephen. T
9.20am 
Sat,July 29, 2006


In the morning when I was about leaving
Aunty Rose’s house in Iba,it was 
An Environmental day in Lagos....

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