Oluseyi Akinbami Poems

He is not your husband
Who undresses you before the alter
And bid you follow the path of lust assuming love
It is not the alter that determines a beginning,
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Deeper and deeper
Into seas of depression,
Obscurity navigates on my amber;
Startled and amused watching shadows
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Like a stalking hoarse
Have endured shrewd days and night
Like the physician am-poule
Ready on my skin to pour
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They Say'
I said,
But I say nothing
they only say what they immagine,
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Let them now to the foreign land escape and be justified
Them who by writs claims authority above other in words
Them that by honor and chevron are ranked above our dons
By the ignoramuses of imagining red necks
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It was not for bread or the lack of it
It was not for death or the danger of it
Her tears was not for illness or the pain with it
Though her camp deceived her to the end
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Vincent

Vials of rare genus spotted with golden invisible dots
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These,
Who preside over changeless empire
Lording multitudes from ills
And societal ribs
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Share…
All that remain of these woes
Cut the head and keep for the gods
Remove the eyes for vultures
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All in hundreds, all in needs
From interior homes of birth,
To the city vanities of shows
Wanting, many having none.
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