Tosin Abegunde Poems

Noise of Silence

Just like a ship that runs aground
Catastophe awaits the undiligent
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The street is filled with desert'
Curfew hold-ups the pedest'
A regal redeployment
Conjesting illegal employment
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A battle of witts
On the grounds of inscription
Where men lay wreaths
On a peg o' instruction
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On a Love Train.

He that sits on the horse
With sheol storming his clause
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Death Be Not Proud.

The Lord said to my lord
Sit at my right hand
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I begin to ponder on wonders
The rhetoric of petitio pricippi
Reposed like plague on Esu
Hither-to-fore accused of guilt
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The Coat of Crime

The dew waters faster like a slug,
Here on the dry island I habitate
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Songs On The Tablet (Epitaph)

Here sleeps a charismatic enigma,
So reverend a messiahic personality
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Slowly it came
From the Atlantic,
Like a rush of mighty wind,
Hurried; struck; stole away:
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Like Paul, Like Silas

In this dungeon I lay, lips sealed,
Waiting patiently for an angel
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