ifedayo oshin Poems

BELIEVING AGAIN

Standing before Mount Kilimanjaro in Kenya
Or before Everest in the U
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At the turn of the time at nine last night
Sprawled swimming still with the tide
The wheel against her will in her on pool
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I will enter deep down to grow
And my root in the soil bow
My stem I spread within the loamy reach
So my bought trunk shall in depth breach
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Is it early in the day
Is it early in the day?
Is my fingers faster
than my heart
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He’s found his groove again
His pen finds a fount to reign
In the smile of a lady, he muses
In her voices, his rhyme bounces
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Life is a series of stories...
A big interwined script of large cast and stage
Every person a script-writer, an artiste, a director
There are writers who conceptualise scripts:
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THE TABLE MOUNTAINS

To what shall I compare thee
Oh, awesome sprawling masterpiece of nature?
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he came, his sword unsheathed
like his forbears in -deed
cutting through thickets of injustice and oppression
he plunged deep into
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I know of a man. A man full of gratitude and humility for all he is and all he has
He has an eternal fault: an obsession to make a difference; to make an impact
To sow where he care not to reap
And give where, he does not get back
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For history is wont to repeat itself
Ever reneging, constant turning on the hinges
For the old in nature’s obeisance
Enter oblivious existence
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