Joshua Adeyemi Poems

Bill your ears always to listen
To talks and ideas. Fasten
Your heart to passion
of indisguise vision.
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The little Hibiscus Grows
In the Winter's brow.
Summer and fall had seized
Their blessing she's ought to feel.
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He jumped into the vehicle,
By the staring he praised the Oracle.
Billed the pedals, scolded the horn,
Clutched the clutch, pricked by fun.
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Singing through all magnanimity of God
All will say: 'The earth is the Lord's'
Land, ridges, human, reptiles, inanimates,
Mercury, venus, Jupiter, and all vast spaces.
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Ishthar, the mother of all goddess:

Eating pigs, hallowing incense.
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He held my throat,
Allowing my breath to float:
Awaiting bird, behind the coat.
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Living like you do not want to go:
You've reap what you never sow.

You sit on the castle of your tongues,
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He gained access to the forest:
Disfigured the trees without rest.
Tilled the soil and baked it's egg,
Fashioned out all useful pegs.
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They'll tell you what they can't do,
They'll give you what they don't have-
borrowed jewel from a wretched potter:
Drunk with penury, drown in poverty.
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If you think you have nothing:
That in all things you're found wanting.
Then pick up your luggage from the earth,
And give back the Lord your breath.
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