ON EARTH I CRAVE TO SEEK THE GRAVE

Metallic digger jabbed,

Unmasked the holocaust:

Pelvis, femurs, fibulae…

Have me pen to born a dirge:

On earth I crave to seek the grave

The dust I pelt will venge me still,

Fossils, odures, organic manure in the cave.

Dandy, take a coffin for a thub,

A solitary hut for all dust eaters.

Air conditioned shylock in upland “dome”,

Navigation skates your mincing feet?

A shoveled slip in the mind.

Thanatophobic?

Hypochondriachal?

Escort me to the necropolis,

A tourism to skulls and bones.

A grave so prim a stadium,

Gerasene’s demoni‘ac’s court of badminton.

No fume can fume your mummy last in the morgue,

Douglas of Russia is necrophiliac.

Either by ancient Egyptian mummification

Or antique Scandinavian cremation,

All bones into rigid bones

On earth you crave to seek the grave.

Olayiwola Metamofosis

THEY DON’T LISTEN

They don't listen

Yes they don’t

Even when I shout for a month

Or course through my teeth

They won’t still listen

All I hear of,

Are their Cinnamons and Mahoganies

And yet my tales

Of the mighty Iroko

And his brother the Omo

Are unheard and ignored

I wish they’ll listen

More to the cries of orphans

Than to their whining ponies

Maybe then their minds would have heard

All that their ears shut out

Had my tales of Abikus

Been real enough to them

Then their kids

Would have shown more respect

But then respect as they say is reciprocal

Had Amadioha’s shrine

And Sango’s staff

Not been desecrated

Maybe then they would have been saved

From Catherina and Rita’s wrath

I hope one day they’ll listen

And maybe then their earth would seize to quake

And their land would stop to slide

Maybe just maybe then

Damnation would be delayed.

And who am I

But a bitter minstrel

Sitting on the road side

Waiting for someone to listen.

Ekejiuba ‘prince ice’ Innocent

PARODY OF THE GOLDEN GOBLIN

Of course the messiah of Oyo

Shall run to the Oyomesi

But I wonder if Oyo truly mesi

For at their words

The goblins amala was served

And with their knives

The meat was shared

So tell him and let him know

Tell the so called messiah

That tomorrow is only a foot long

When the wind shall blow off

Want conceals the hen’s groin.

Ekejiuba Innocent

LOVE YOU COZ HATE YOU

I love you amore coz I hate you more

I love you really to be with you, yet hate you as it’s impossible

I love you for you seem right though all my hatred grows coz you’re wrong

I want all of you coz you tickle me laught yet reject totally coz you make me sad

I seem interested coz you seem like puzzle, look away coz you’re all trouble

I love you coz you make me sure, hate you coz of a million doubts

I love you coz we seem right hate you coz all is mismatch

I scream I hate you coz the more I hate you the more I love you.

Bakare Simbiat

EUPHORIA

In the time past it was fun,

But Euphoria now torn,

Longing for laughter,

I might become a murderer,

The throb of the heart beat,

I am in the fog’s heat,

Wishes might become true

But will hopes be true?