Minority!

I am a minority
In the majority
A bony tongue
For their thong

My race weeps
For their whips
For their brake
My sighs break

I am like curves
On their coughs
Keying in to fate
Burning on faith

New sword torn
From tower lees
My heart bleeds
On life ails pleas

On rosier sunrays
A minority reigns
A bright minority
Lulls dull majority

The grave grazes
Like hungry cows
Minority at dawn
Majority for dusk

Deeper heartburn
In art nightly born
On prosaic poetry
Lovers' soul cased

Sophisticated rum
Down the scooper
Holds the old spell
For the cold pencil


THE IRE LOST IN THE LEAD

The combustible tinderbox
Built in the furious feelings
With foreign powers' wires
Activated sectarians voices
On flaming bloody bunkers

They retouched the flames
With the eternity to blame
From under the mock huts
Their fire was painfully hot
Like the ire lost in the lead

Shot showers from towers
Beefed up the eeriest hails
The breath and flesh apart
With warmongers at alerts
To stock our skulls in store

In the cannoned cathedral
War bride madness groom
Walk down the blood isles
Harmony like grave organs
Pen down drowning dirges

THE WAYS AWAY IN THE CLOUDS

Black goggles giggled in far skies
Babbling upon strapped sandals
The storm in core competences
Espoused the lights to darkness

Demagogues in the synagogues
Lost in thoughts for the wagons
Pastoral version of urban books
Loaded with hell-bound sinners

The waterfalls crawl downward
Like the flowing wedding gowns
Given to the fire flame of peace
Kindled aboard the honeymoon

The flood weighs the idle mouth
On the weighbridges of the deep
More than more cries the ocean
Like the graves yelling on deaths

The asthmatic waves call breath
From their breached brick ovens
Like the oats taking the oily oath
In the cardigans of our gardener

Footages of cottage in a portage
With burden upon her shoulders
Their tongues laundered the sea
Like squirrels squaring up kernels

The despondent correspondents
Came on chattering like magpies
Plaguing the sky with ball plaque
To stake us on maddening clouds

Adeola Ikuomola
Tel:08031373303
Email:seasonsglobal@gmail.com