Welty Poems | Examples


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Benjamin

It’s a garden of roses 
Sweet sweet smells of Jasmine and lavender 
It never rains, 
it never pours
 it drizzles patiently 
It drizzles romantically 
I have my garden
I have my Eden
Red roses smile at me
Beautiful birds sing melodiously
I lighten up like a further 
Gentle winds whistles me to the 9th cloud
Exotically I float aimlessly 
It must be love
It must be love
It is love
The drizzle is thicker
It’s rains, it hails
it thunders
It hissed 
It cracked 
It truck................
Suddenly silence
The sun has gone off
It’s hot, it burning
It hurts so bad 
I can’t take it
I’m broken, I’m hurt , I’m stunned 
The roses are Welty 
Lilies are dry
Jasmine and lavender 
Smell like ashes 
It hurts , it burns
The rain that gave me life 
has taken a life
This is my official farewell 
My goodbye to my
My Benjamin my Eden
RIP Benjamin my love
Death do not be proud 

By Odeline Chigwedere

Hey Fiddle Fiddle

He fiddled 
with his foreskin,
pulling the taunts over

The tip of his nose,
it still stung, from when
Gary Mother****in' Jackson
(a strapping lad who insisted
this should have been his middle
name, after taking up a pool
job one summer)

Had pushed him, rather
abruptly into the bushes,
and those branches

Feeling like hands, poked
and prodded into the depth's
of his skin and he'd walked 

Through that day, red and 
welty, like an overgrown zit.

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