Day 29. NaPoWriMo- Celebrate Poetry, All Month Long!
Poem: Life’s First Morning
On a day such as this, a rough, lonely today
You’ll find the hidden mysteries of life in perfect play
So let’s play a game of flow and float, and let’s play it right
In this game, you are not the you conditioned by your walls
Walk the lone road, but not alone
The road destined to push and test
The road of discomfort, of unrest
That path laced with tears and pain
Walk to a place where peace doth reign
Poem: Blinking Eyes; a poem for insomniacs
There was a closed door
And when it was not
It was ajar
With memories slipping out
Busy! Busy! Busy!
Busy being trapped by memories of past painful sorrows
Busy being anxious about the uncertainties of our tomorrows
Busy making plans about a great life and never actually doing any living
Busy working dead-end jobs with people who drain and slowly suck us dry
Poem: Azuka, Iruka: past and future souls collide!
Azuka! Iruka!
When past and future souls collide
He was a son of the red soil, a child of seasons past
His ancestors laced him with showers of blessings
And when he came into the earth, they named him Azuka!
I invite you to meet me tonight
At the Bridge, with all my stuff in my bag
Struggling to find a glimpse of beauty
Poem: The Colours of Youth
Many different hues and colours everywhere we look
And yet none holds a candle to the colours of our youth
The colours through which we found and embraced our truth
Beyond the bridge, across the gentle, flowing rivers of the Niger
The colours of our youth took life, blossomed into shape and form
These colours hold secrets and mysteries of a timeless passage
(In loving memory of OluwaTosin Adepegba, RIP)
Poem: Love’s Call
(Inspired by the movie ‘The other end of the line’).
A phone call across oceans and continents
I am flushed in strange feelings and sentiments
Lost in the hypnotic patterns and inflections of your voice
Poem: The Stories We Tell Ourselves
The stories they told us of ourselves
Dis-empowering, based on a fallacy
Based on their own projections
Of their unresolved stuff and pains
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