Oluseyi Akinbami Poems

Come forth!

From that square lifeless wood
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No! , speak not!
No! let me
‘Touch not my anointed’!
How do we know your anointed?
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Today ignorance spoke in the court of kings
A lucky fool amongst lords.
She uttered words from idle lips,
To pilgrims on nature’s path
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Out of this mind in my trance

Three men from earth are in bond.
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Have mercy o priest
To God through Mary let my plea
Seven times more my sins
That I must to hell submit.
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In their minds of exalted kingdoms

They pride in science and great discoveries.
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From the seven empty seas of earth

To the highest mount and hill on land
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Beauty is life’s treasure
Hidden in the bowels of gods.
Spreading herself in thousand arts,
On all the corners of earth.
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At the darkest hour of men’s fear
I walked the street into the gate
Alone at night, when men slept
In a parley of man and spirits of hell
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Vials of sacred births
By choice less compulsion
Shattered at earth darkest harbor,
The male and female cargo ejected at nature’s will.
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