2016: EB POETS EXERCISE XIII

Muffled Voices

Oluwadamilola Hybrid

Eerie air. 

Strands of hair. 

Standing on the edge. 

Of faint muffled waves. 

Desmond Adeoye-Adetoba

In the horde of multiple voices lay the symphony                               

Yet three became the loudest and cacophonous.                                  

The rhythm is disgruntled with bickering beats                                 

But beauty lies in the muffled voices of the minority.                                        

Northpriest Judha

Its sign language now right?                    

You financed the deadening light.         

You seem not to hear your voice a bit.    

It’s because you are strangling it.            

Vera Bonny

Broken, I stand alone in the dark, 

Pained, bloody tears from every pore trails,

Stricken, on my knees to gather my dignity,

Livid, my shouts came out in a muffled shrill.

Oluwaseun Okunlola

Don’t want to hear it so drown it out.

Where’s music? Where’s movies? Volume up. Swallow sound.

Then back to wall, rock and hard place, stunned and dizzy, stumbling crawl.

Sigh of relief, hope at last. It is not silent. I muffled it.

Anre John 

Brazen deprivation to loud vociferous calls

Our suppressed cries yearning for freedom’s chants

Faded will, less strength to break free from the political anvil

Once fiesty protestations dwindles into muffled voices

Rudolph Rudapoet

Let’s play this song and hold its chord by the thorns,

strumming the silence of the dangling sweet nuisance.

The charm sweetened on thumb’s pressed unto the nipples of this notes,

listen to voices throttled into screeching sounds of the clouds.

Leonell Echa

Lawyers they say say a lot

Doctors,  well,  they write unclear a lot

What do scared people do? 

Are babies stammerers too?

Prudence Obadan-Enujiofor

Far away in the land of PASSIVE desperate voices broke free from chains and off into the ears of their monarch they landed

These voices in their helplessness were shoved back into captivity

Like Somalian Children they could only embrace their misfortune and bury their plight

To match this move their monarch snarled This is the era of CHANGE and you MUST deal with it