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Friday, Happy Oyamenda
Friday, Happy Oyamenda
(20th April,1984 / Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria)
Blue And Grim - Poem by Friday, Happy Oyamenda
Oh humming bird, hum not your song today beside my window on this forlorn-empty dawn; for the woman I love - the one before whose elegant feet my young heart is cast - thinks of someone else and not me. This makes me blue and grim. So dear humming bird - oh you whom nature has profusely lavished with the most splendid love that appears in your bright colours; the most perfect azure, the most beautiful gold, the most dazzling red, with such beautiful diamond eyes - go hum your love song elsewhere, for my heart is blue and grim...
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Excellent poem Friday, gave it a ten and I can relate to it cause that's how I feel on the inside deep down right now, thnx for sharing (Report) Reply
Excellent poem Friday, gave it a ten it relates to me now as well because that a how I'm feeling deep down, thnx for sharing. (Report) Reply