Jungle Queen Poem by Vincent Adeyemi

Queen most adorable
Where dwells your tent
In my own grown forest
The patches i know and the nests
Where here do you lay your head
For ages I wandered on this soil
But none like a woman I met
The birds were my fairy friends
My only hope while the wild scares.


Sweet lady of the woods
Behold the mossy garland I bear
That grows long down my nude
With a pendant from a python head
All I made not of my self
But for one crowned of the jungle
For all my years the deers I rear
All meant for the throat they thirst
Will you be one only to have my care?


Cast off my blind, give me you to see
As the sun sprinkles life after dew
Wake me when the lady in you mews
Prank my sight from your body's full
As it tenders down your height
Coat yourself in an ugly guise
That my lust might be briddled
In a bid to smell you in the nook
As to the monkey as our riddle.


As the mist kisses the mountain
That till the sun rise it retains
As the moon lit up the earth in candle
Without a thought for the beating dew
Just as a little belly comforts a twin
In a way it does happily to a single
While all these dwell In two
Will you not be my jungle queen?
When you have a crown to rule.