Poetry

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Anxiety.

19 Sep 2023 1 minute read 1 comment Olawalium

When it creeps in on you,Curls you up and have your head,Laid on its lap like SamsonLaid his head on Delilah's lap,What will you do? Will you allow it shave your hair?Will you allow it call for situations,That can weaken your strength? When it come...

Revealing code

19 Sep 2023 1 minute read 0 comments espacioreal

I'm looking for an explanation...inexplicable, a reliefa barefoot walk, feelthe earth in the plantsof bare feet.I'm looking for a revealing code,numbers, words, signsa coded barin one look,perhaps, in a conversationhaving a coffee on a street,or in t...

Àìkú, Àìṣá, Àìdibàjẹ́ - Praise Poem.

18 Sep 2023 1 minute read 1 comment Olawalium

That moment after your trial,As I beheld you on Calvary's tree,I couldn't but think of why you deserve such a burial,I wished a miracle could happen, at least, to set you free,After all, you are a miracle and even a miracle worker. But who dared st...

Concrete and stone

17 Sep 2023 1 minute read 0 comments espacioreal

Our timethe sky of our citiesour hard nests of concrete and stone,all our human historyfrom the first cry in a swampto the first letter that unfolded the voiceof Man, everything: boats, telephones, stonesagainst closed shutters, doves and hawkscourie...

Thirty Lines Of Poetry.

16 Sep 2023 1 minute read 3 comments Olawalium

These ain't like the thirty pieces of silver,That that betrayer, betrayed the Saviour with,These ain't like the thirty pieces of silver,That spelt and smelt betrayal in each of it,These are thirty lines of poetry,With words precious than silver. Th...

Any alphabet

15 Sep 2023 1 minute read 0 comments espacioreal

then you will love me without knowing itwhich is the most beautiful way to lovewanting without wanting itwant even without being awarenot knowing that you are loving meand yet your elbows hurthurt in your ears and lipsand not knowing what you're look...

Agitated Night

15 Sep 2023 1 minute read 13 comments Rachabel

    Seeing myself on a high cliff edge in a dreamIn the middle of the ocean stranded Extending my hands, both chainedThe scene was so real not from a film My eyes seeking out the horizon for an aid Blinded by the lightening gleamI couldn't discern t...

With the sun

13 Sep 2023 1 minute read 0 comments espacioreal

I will be the earthwhat I wrote,the one I pointed with my fingerwithout knowing where,tangled by the hangoverof lifethat enters through the holeof the windowwith the sun.My sunken hands,buriedthey will look for the stonesthat they threw at uswhen we...

Master move

12 Sep 2023 1 minute read 0 comments espacioreal

Fire, tired lantern of the night,shadow fireflies,cosmic ray, the silence ofthink... Let there be lightin all its forms in alltheir ghosts.In the chess player's master moveon the cosmo board.The city brain thinksfor the millions of soulsthat inhabit...

Birds

10 Sep 2023 1 minute read 0 comments espacioreal

They say that every few years(the figure is arbitrary like all figures)of articulating in unison certain causalitiesa woman and a man blindly fall in loveand that the race experiences certain material variations as an example when the woman and the m...