Folayemi Akande Poems

To forfeit the grieve of her sweet absence
Will be as foolish a wish unto death
Indeed I've lost her embrace and presence
To the long hands of miles and undue sunset.
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Your faintest smile's far brighte' than sun's best day
It threads sparkly into my ill hue mind
Sad notes of such absence makes
me sway
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O you bulbous offspring of poor autumn
Mother of cluster, funnel-shaped pink wings
Crowned with petals and sepals bright as dawn
And with white crimson veins that never wrinks
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My love's faint breath hast strayed as summer would,
When the frosty hands of spring hugs the skin's feel.
Her absence is of the feel of pale brood.
Had roses no red, life be damp without her thrill.
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From the frosty eye of the sun do sparks fly
Forsake of my impetious desire.
Too honest, the obvious charm from thy eye
Cast within the linen womb of fire.
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Have not a thin grace to spear, time's cruel knife?
That man's faith is mortared and left to clive
You with death, sneeze doom unto his strive
You attorn his hope to nothing but waif.
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