2016: EB POETS EXERCISE LXX

Dear MAMA

Your scattered smiles I miss,Not too long too long this world you don’t belong

Up above your abode

Took a bow from earth below

Secure a throne from the ‘heavenlies’,As a queen you will forever remain.-Rachel Charles

Standing before this mirror of memories

Seeing your lows and valleys, highs and mountains

Those, you confronted with a countenance always as fresh as a Rose’s blossom

Mama, you conquered all, we are the testimony. – Tee2emm

There’s more to dying, 

After one twenty or less years of good or bad living!

Dear Willow, the tears have not come.

I doubt they will come!- OracLe

The first note you ever sung in my ears

the moan of a blinded wood against the barking darkness

Tis so gone, so much gone Garnet!

my fingers wish to find holes where she would always rest to strum – Rudolph

I wish I could have moments of you captured in living pictures

So I could gape into your soul, savour every sweetness within

I wish you gave me time to grow, to behold the light in your eyes

But wishes are all I have left,  preserving vague memories of you.  I miss you dad...-AP

What once was, 

We held hands and walked shores 

Time like wind dry tears but big shoes you left to fill

These are memories I sleep on till heartbeat comes to still – Fifteey

In the dark of the night. 

The air with you Teema seemed so thicker. 

Sisters more than friends we shone like the light. 

If only you let me say bye before your last breathe. –Hypermind

They’d never plant again. 

On this farm,  love was sewn where death found dew. 

These waters fall from eyes and hit this earth like grains

The harvest too few,  the laborers too. – Leon

Gone. Gone. Gone with time and space

All I’ve got of you is the memory of your face

Those afternoon walks and the talks we should have had

I’ll wobble and hop a while now that you are gone. -Seun

You dey house? Wetin you cook? 

You know I love you, why can’t we be more than friends?

His smile infectious, sense of humor? Out of this world. 

Maybe she refused dating him cos his end was near. His memory she’ll forever cherish.-Hijab gurl