Deep Sores At SeashoreTuesday, May 10, 2016
A fleet of steady stealthy steps In the dark-jeweled night town Echo the precision-faring boots For the economic state matters With safety and beauty coupon From black-gold smith rsquo;s wagon Crawling into a deep deception Stripping soul in dark sigh ways Like the raw laughter of the sea R ...
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Let The Bombs Roll OnTuesday, May 10, 2016
Let the bombs roll on As flames rise in the creeks again Niger Delta, your children ignite thee Is it your wish to be burnt by your blood? Let the bombs roll on As our Rivers are poisoned with crude Children of the South now endangered species Salvation does not destroy, destruction is not of ... |
In The AlleyTuesday, May 10, 2016
In the alley Down the valley Grow sweet barley With my tongue tally Leading the hart With his hidden heart Nightfall is a charged art With a wide brimmed hat The moon is a train For the starlets to drain Booked a registered crane Mysteries encircled his brain ... |
The Xenophobic ShadowsThursday, May 5, 2016
They are black goats Trucking into darkness The xenophobic shadows Black mail our light meters They threaten the sun Like foolish-born fire flies And the monumental floods Like saliva-cultured building blocks They mock the skies Like invertebrate smokes And wander in thick forests Like ec ... |
The Cloudy Skies TodayWednesday, May 4, 2016
Floating like a stateless race The darkly decked sick clouds Roaming in the motionless skies Spread their sadness upon the world The flagships of defeated galaxies Naked and cold, hungry and aching Weeping in their weak wedding gowns Place ransom on the kidnapped sunrays Beneath their pains ... |
Our Head GearsWednesday, May 4, 2016
Chain mine and let me peg yours down Our head gears have lost their bearings Seeking to console the bereaved grains With our unruly dentitions in detention Like tea cups measuring the furious sea ... |
It Is Time We ThinkTuesday, May 3, 2016
It is time we think Like thin shadows Opening twin tins In scenic light-out There in our diary Wails dark gallery Echoing our dairy Within pea salary Our awful wages Slay our sewages Like thermal filth In colloquial feet ... |
There Is Nothing CredibleTuesday, May 3, 2016
There is nothing credible In our fainthearted edibles Neither is a national curve In our ribs-breaking coughs Who are worthy residents In our locomotive presidents To the gains of the starry fuel Silencers are caught up in duels Good ... |
The Clutched Sickening NightsTuesday, May 3, 2016
The clutched sickening nights Performed surgeries on lights Our pupils bleed with abscess From the fake executive drugs Our gums seek kernels to crack Like crudely stitched foreheads Our bleeding skulls they scored For wild monkey ... |
We Have LandedTuesday, May 3, 2016
We have landed Stranded we are Like the fair lake With own scores We have landed Confused we are In contrary views On mountain top We have landed On the wing side In strange flights Over dash board We have landed On flaming tares Comely currency Bears adversities WAKE ME UP Wake me ... |
Selected Poems From Adeola IkuomolaSunday, May 1, 2016
FOR DRY MORSELS WE MOURN For dry morsels we mourn Like censored mousers In wasteful waves we wail Like embattled cargoes For dry morsels we roar Like lightning-castrated thunders Our voice boxes are boxed Like thudded cowherd drum ... |
Fraudulent FriendshipThursday, June 11, 2015
Fraudulent friendship with the faithful Ghosts shadow boxing in the high seas Truncates the rudders and the cargoes Like the cloud bedwetting the dry duck The sun stands on the dormant horizon Upon ethos from the deafening echoes Surfing in the unwrapped verbal wave ... |
The Floating BatteriesTuesday, May 19, 2015
War heads Blind bombers Bloody campaigns: The vicious vampires and virulent vipers The sparks, the fires, The flames, the heat, The smokes, the ruins: The imbalances from the floating batteries Adeola Ikuomola Tel: 234-8031373303 ... |
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