‘Sir, Parties Are lovely. Those Attending Would say So. The Choice of Fine fabric Is The fragrance Of age’s Time. With Untamed Colouring, We Impress, dress To look Proud. As Much as Tradition Needs, We will teach To our Kin That What the Agbada Knows, The suit doesn’t And won’t Learn. One Is good. The […]

Faced With this Filament tied to expose or hide night I open, envelop a halogen of fine gas. A mixture, iodine trapped in a bulb to be lit A texture of bromine sealed in a lamp would be heat Do guide me as i walk in to places i know not. I will work one […]

If you will permit me, I’ll count again my wealth, please. Four, maybe even more than a thousand have been lost. I’ve broken, opened safe. I’ve seen prints left. Someone’s here. Look under the water, for those ignored in the sea Search inside every heart for leftover silver joy. Leonell

They Slice and Bleed open As They cut my Blue veins Out It Starts with A drop then It Flows with a Rush and Stops. The Water Coming from My Eye falsely Drips out For This Onion Is a smoke Screen. Pain resides Deep down Here The Exes I still miss The Memories I choose, […]

Sin looks a lot Like myself. Once I thought He was my twin. But instead I’m warned to stay far from him. That I cant. For in the middle of sin is ‘I’, locked on both sides. Sin’s nature is like rain the way it falls to quench thirst. Once it is gone, one is […]

“Hope is a beautiful thing,” Mother will always tell me. And it was true what she said, One could see it when she smiles and also in her blue eyes. There’s this solid assurance in the way she clings to hope. “Hope for the best always son,” Father will always tell me. “But make sure […]

To that dove with no shoulders How did your long neck reach here? How did you answer the call? Before now you were asleep, All of a sudden, awake. and breathing much more harder. This dove loves to dive bushes. How long can you truly starve While you sleep alone at night? Legends say you […]

Your thoughts just turn on their own The scent of your timely rain your indescribable clouds your hug that is a bracelet that ties me to your soft breasts. How can this boy love you less when your soft lips give me more? Your voice is my galaxy Holding the stars of your moans. You’re […]

To those ones on the cliff edge, forget your soul, hold the wind. Try everything, try to float. Don’t make a boat from a tree, A ladder may be useful. Think when putting on fire, Cause it may never go off. If today becomes your day And the sun opens her legs. Don’t forget the […]

You’ll read this poem word for word, line by line, Until you feel that your hearts heal and you are fine and cool and calm. The rhymes will flood your veins like blood and soothe like balm. Ink becomes wine as you find rest in words like pigs in mud. These subtle rhymes will make […]