Shola Balogun Poems

I ride on the waves
of their lies
and tell how vicious men
master vain manners
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To His Penelope
(for my wife, Hauwa)

1.
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(Songs for Jazz)

A river of wine
In the kiss of your lips:
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Sango's Ballad
(Osogbo,2017)
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Oedipus by Sophocles


Oil for the brow.
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Could this be the setter forth of Ethiop tongue!
I thought the Aegean breakwaters,
Beating at Aphrodite's tender limbs
In wingbeats of storm
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As ill-clad Zlelponith bemoaning
The mangled body of her son tempered
Beneath the hewn stones of Dagan,
Reached deeply into her grief
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Abraham...Ra...Ham

I kissed the navel of the night.
The chalice of sprouted stalks of bitterleaf,
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Rain on my tongue.

Threshing floor of pebbled camwood,
Then hidden faces and strange footsteps
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A shadow of light transported
Into three eyes in a flood of triangle,
Tempered omelette of whirling cyclone
Beating pawn to forlorn stones
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