THE SECOND SEASON

And that unkind sun is coming
To dry the pouring tears
Of the heaven o'er the earth
Olive,palm, and the likes
Shall have little to drink
their leaves shall wither
And sunder away from their stem
Streams shall pass into slumber,
Wells shall become a yawned pit

The sun shall dry the earth into dust
And the wind shall carry it about
From here, there and there in whirl
The frosty clime too shall come
To visit the fierce dry sun
Our lips shall quiver, break and pale
Our palm, our feet shall crave for wool
Our stool shall be fast by a burning ember
To warm our cold feet and palm
The heaven will not cry,
Vegetables will not smile
And we shall pay high for the ones that comes by
I hate for this to come, the second season
But my will-drum can't make nature dance

FOR YOU

I'll buy the sun,
To lit your day
I'll wrest the moon
From its dwelling place
To make the inky blackness
Of your night glow
I'll pluck the stars
In their thousands
And make them twinkle
Their plentiful lights
While you lay your head at night
On your oaken couch
Tell me you're thirsty
I'll bring you water
From the purest spring
To slake your thirst
Tell me when your stomach calls,
I'll bring you the freshest greens
Even from the garden of Eden
And hunt down the finest deer
To fill your belly
You're my everything
For you,
I'll go to the end of the earth. 

FAR SKY STAR

Evelyn Stonefield,
A woman of surpassing beauty
Rare to find
One of a kind
A twinkling bright star
Up in the far sky
That she be, a garden flower
My hands would have reached her
Touched her glossy long hair
Whisper my heart to her ear
But she dwells in high place
Where I can only cast a gaze
To the call of her attraction
Fanning my untamed affection

THE BLOOD MOON

Beautiful,
The roseate glow
Of the lunar moon
The light it shed
Touches the earth
O! a coruscating brilliance
A touch of red,
It could mean love
Love?
Perhaps the moon
Has been speared,
Ran through with cold steel
Shedding scalding tears
In gory pool
Sun,
stars
And other heavenly bodies
Have you done this?
Have you killed our moon?
Why does she glow in gore?
Will she breathe again?
Will she glow
To lit our inky night again?

I'LL SING YOU, A SWEET LAY

I'll offer to you,
my dearest
a sweet silvery rendition
Embraced in a harmonious rhythm
Deep from the abyss of my steadfast heart,
A sweet lay of love
No ear has welcomed

I'll sing low,
then high
Till it rises,
a deafening crescendo
I'll beckon on songsters
Form all earth's quarter
Together,
we'll make the song swell around you

I'll praise with the sweet ode
The greatness of your surpassing beauty,
Your alluring eyes,
Point-carved nose
And Sexy pink glossy lips
Not saving your inky long tresses

From my piccolo,
There shall a pleasant tune issue forth
To tear away your heavy-heart
In great asunder 
I'll twang too
the ukulele strings
And set free it's sweet melody
To unfasten your joy

For you,
Bone of my own
I'll sing till my strength wane
twang strings
Till my fingers are dead
I'll go to the end of the earth
To make songs that holds you
Under a rapturous heaven

LIFE

I love her so much
I care for her as such
The lone reason I breathe
She makes my heart beat
In sweet harmony with her presence
With her, I've found my essence
That her father could let her be mine
To dwell fast by me till the end of time
Then I'll go to the end of the earth
To gain plenteous wealth
And pay her nameless bride price
But alas! Won't death awe in fright?
Yet only then will I breath forever,
And ne'er ever shall I sever ties with her.

TIME

Behold! No clock lean on my wall
None rest on my wrist too
I watch no time
I just see the sun pass into slumber
And the night awaken
I see the seasons come and go
The sun that drinks dry the earth water,
And the rain that waters the earth soil
The deep crow of the cock tells the dawn
And the receding sun bespeak the night draws nigh
To keep time is needless
I was born benighted of the time
I'll live through the earth with no time too
And I'll die not knowing the time

GRIM REAPER

O! Grim reaper
I know of your essence
Instrument of fate
But your bones should be weary and leaden
Your scythe should have slacked it's thirst for gore
For numberless souls have you shuffed their mortal coil
Yet, you hunger after more
Though you're blameless, a true-hearted servant
You're blind to gold and silver
You're heartless; deaf to piteous cry
Alas! Your end is nigh
Ultimately, you shall be cast into a fiery mere
And humanity shall live forever more
Our flesh shall not wrinkle, neither shall our hair grizzled

WIDOW PLOUGHING A LONELY FURROW

At first light, in the morn
I set out to further my wanderings
Tripping the grassy ride along
To catch a boat sailing to other province

Along the path, a sweet sepulchral voice
Arrest my sympathy breast
Entranced by the sweetness of the voice
I seek it to find, thus, I became unquiet

I drew nigh, the verdant field rings
Of sweet lay,resonance with elegiac tune
I espied, behold 'tis the widow that sings
Her visage writ large in gloom

The tidings of this widow
Had once danced pass my ear
Alas! A pitiful lonely soul
She bore no heir

Sited neath a bower,in wonderment I stare
She had worked mightily on the farmland
Heaps arrayed on the earth bed
All she'd sown flowers on her fertile land

She sow and sings by herself
Pearls of perspiration watering the heaps
A solitary sower, with no hand to help
Anon, her eyes rimmed with fatigue

She cast her eyes heavenward
Storm clouds were gathering
She hurried, in fleet of foot homeward
Thence I further away in my wanderings

TO AN ANGEL

I cast my gaze heavenwards
To a place where the love angels dwell
I can't see you, but hear my words 
And my heart desires as well

She placed her heart on a platter
Not for me to consume nor to savour
But to keep ahold and cherish forever
Yet, shower upon a sheer ardour

Dear love angels hear my plea
Life changes like a quicksilver
I know not tomorrow, though I see
But I yearn to keep her forever

Quell my worries, my fears too
I'm possessed with ardour
If I lose this jewel, I'd be a fool
And ridded of heavenly favour

Would you rather plume out now
Perchance I'll see your celestial visage
As you clad in a holy alabaster gown
And set your ear towards my message

Bless me with plenitude of wealth
So I can give her a paradise
And from all quarters of the earth,
Pluck her the treasures of life

SLAUGTHER HOUSE

Tis a slaughter house, ne'er a refuge home
Young and old, they kill our kindred own
Day after day,blood and tears runs like a river
Alas! No stern stance, but asleep our own leader
In luxury of his comfy mattress
Lo and behold our dangling hopeless heads
Craving to see no more massacre
Oh! Heaven we call, bring forth succour
                                     

ASAKE

ASAKE is beautiful
Lo and behold,
the very epitome of a beauteous woman
Cursed with an aspect,
that outshine the moonlight
Yet a magical eyes that arrests souls
Her glossy ebony skin nick away sight
Overcomer breathes no where her beauty tempts
Alas! Asake, flawless but a bilious vixen
The smudge on her sweet perfection.
                              

CARE FOR YOU

I care for you my man
O Ye, I'll do all I can
To hold you for my own
And make your heart my home
Dine along on my platter of gold
As my love for you unfold
Out of the spring of my breast
You shall drink till our breath rest
I care for you my man
O ye I'll more than I can
     

TILL DEATH DO US PART

In your arms
I found peace the most
And miles away from all harms
My life with you I chose
To be with till I wrinkle
And love you till my breath cease
Oh love!, crazy and blissful
You touch my heart with your gentle kiss

I live my life for your love
No one i place above
Undying love kept us thus far
With you I wish not to sever
Together we'll be forever
Till death do us part

             

UNCHANGED

I see with my eyes,
as the season change
Rain comes and go
Sometimes,
the river cease to flow
Leaves dry,
and swept away in wind
cold comes
and makes our lips tremble
And our body craving for woolly cloth
Ye!, Albeit  season change
E'en if your visage with it
My feelings for you remains
Like a thousand year stone
I love you and you're my own

THE WORDS I COULDNT SAY

Oh! what a tragedy
My heart is so heavy
I've been made this way
By the words I couldn't say

I love this dame
But my courage is so lame
To externalise my feeling
Thus I drool like a suckling

I love you,
the word I couldn't say
Hoping she'll see through
and peruse words I want to say

ILL PRONOUNCE HER NAME

I'll pronounce her name, Dunmias
For she came like a messiah
And saved me from perpetual loneliness
That had made me sleepless
Her love for me makes me wonder
Cos she cares like a mother
I know not how I deserve this
With sweet kisses, she Bathed my lips
With her hands all about my neck
My emotions I can no more keep in check
I threw my hands on down her spine
For I know she's mine

NIGHT

Black is the colour of you
Night, that eyes can't see through
You the friend of the wicked soul
Only light's your closest foe

To kill you I hold my touch
And make you bleed in a rush
you go and I shall see clearly
All the parts I stumbled lately

                  

MAN UNDER THE CLOUD

Don't marry him
Everyone's crying it loud
He's not what he seem
The man under the cloud

I want him
But I'm scared
I love him, but about him
Much have been said

He cares for me
In ways I ne'er imagined
He loves me for me
On him, my heart is all enshrined

I wanna carry on
Cloaking all the doubts
Alas! The cry still is on
The man under the cloud

MATANMI (LOVE)

Matanmi, a beautiful dame
With an attraction like a burning flame
Her regalia as white as an alabaster
Her visage sparkles like a twinkling star
Matanmi is harmless
Yet blameless
Blessed with an aura
That brings forth euphoria
Matanmi is peaceful and calm
Talked about in the book of psalm
Matanmi does not despise
Nor possess a haughty eyes
Matanmi cannot kill
But a balm that can ill
Have I said too much of matanmi
She means a lot to me.

Alas! Matanmi is here no more
Taken by an enigmatic carnivore
At the river down the town
The news swamped the town
Soon, rivulet of tears begin to drop
Like eternity, seeming ne'er to stop
My heart became heavy
Oh! What a tragedy
Indeed a tragedy
The whole town is unhappy
Cos Matanmi that holds our town
Could be below the soil now.

So I search, searched for days
With sweat running across my face
Day and night in vain
If only for Matanmi's remain
Thought thorny forest and perilous river
I search, my heart ponder
Is that all about Matanmi
Eh! Wail, oh! Matanmi
Like a withered flower, I dropped my head
I couldn't hide the tears I shed
Will I ever see her again
I weep in excruciating pain
My visage rupture in lugubrious frown
For in vain have I searched the entire town
Matanmi is no where eyes can see
But I believe she is not dead still.

UNCERTAIN

Weary of the morrow
My heart
Abruptly leapt into sorrow
Pondering over the uncertainty
My mind
Utterly bewildered,
Yet unquiet
A gaze at the sun to come
My strength
Wither away like a flower
Under the scourge of sunlight
The morrow is pregnant
Benighted, I know not
The fruit it shall bring forth

WINDY RAINY NIGHT

Oh! What a cold windy night
That heralds the rain coming
Breeze sweeping the ground swiftly
Dark cloud shroud the stars from sight
But the lightening flashes across the sky
Oh! Ye the rain is quickly coming
I can hear from my room
The beating sound of the rain
Over my shelter roof
No sooner, water running along the drain
It's here really, plenty is the pour
Rolling pebbles as I peek on
From my threshold door

My Girl

She nags a lot
Yet, helps my lot
Unknowingly, love erupt
Like a volcanic over a mountain crust

She has my heart
She's the horse that pulls my cart
A beacon that guides my path
May God ne'er draw us apart

DIE AT THE GATE

I know plenty tongues that utter 

It shall die at the gate

It shall swim away like a leaf on stream water

So they say let go now before its too late 

They cry it's a pseudo of what it seems

And she kiss happily a deceitful tongue

Anon, her mouth shall wail and scream

Yet her eyes soaked in tears of wrong

The pain, her heart would not contain

The damage shall reach her marrow

Thus her wholesomeness shall wane

All they utter, an imminent sorrow

Eh! Tongue of the world 

I trample over your utterance

I'll slay you half sans a war 

Neath the auspices of Lord's ordinance 

Nearer, let me whisper to your ear

So you can proclaim to your clan

That gate, it flew over there 

And it shall live a limitless span

Await, you shall learn and tell 

That the aspect of the morrow,

 Not for the mortals to see nor foretell

Sooner, you shall be put to sorrow 

ADEDUNMOLA

Adedunmola mi

Let your ear gbo voice mi

As I wake this morning lati

Eulogise gift ti Olodumare funmi

Eyifunjowo mi akanke

Ko si anyone like you my dear

Arimaleelo, awopadaseyin

Spontaneously, okan mi si to let you in

When you show forth thy good demeanour

Mojogun ife pelu iwa rere na

Iru re po laye but Eni ti yoo se bi tie still

Kosi ni anywhere eyes can see

Monife re pupo

                                          Like I drank wine to stupor 

FORLORN

Gone but here, 

Atop my brooding heart

Far yet near

My thoughts brings her forth 

I miss my dear

And the halcyon days we had

Doughty visage shroud my tears

But lugubrious of countenance 

She severed ties tween us

And loses upon me an unalloyed loneliness 

I became unquiet and broody

Benighted of the path to walk henceforth

'tis loneliness all about me

My heart's desolate and hollow

Abandoned to brood

This, bitterness in my bosom

I passed into slumber at night 

Perchance this feeling will vanquish 

At my wake in the morn

Alas! Forlorn hope, it lingers on

Unavailing my quest for love anew

A damsel with ardour I crave for

To slough off this perpetual feeling

And cast off my woebegone visage. 

IF I WASNT HERE

If I wasn't here 

Perchance I'd be an angel

Looking downward with a pristine stare

Ostensibly, intimately with Gabriel 

If I wasn't here

I would feel no pain

I would breathe sans fear

And fly nude with no shame. 

If I wasn't here 

I won't need a hoe

Nor work my shoulder 

To put grains in my bowl

If I wasn't here

I won't have any foe

Waiting in repose to fleer

When I hit a stone with my toe

If I wasn't here

I would ne'er shed tears

Neither would a dirge pass by my ear

I'll walk the night with no fear. 

If I wasn't here 

The sun ne'er will burn my skin

Nor the rain fall on my hair 

No cold will be felt within 

If I wasn't here

I would never die

I won't have a body you can spear

No hands but wings to fly

If I wasn't here

I would be an angel 

Up high swerving in the sky 

I might e'en be an archangel 

LET THY TONGUE TELL

Oh hear me, ears of the universe

And pellucidly peruse my heart,

With thy plentiful eyes

Spill out thy notion,

outpour thy believe 

With thy telling tongue

Is this love dancing in me?

That I feel empty, yet hollow

The existence of this feeling

I do not know

Could it be love or whatchamacallit 

Not too long her eyes disappeared 

From where it use to meet my eyes

Not too long her glossy tender skin 

drifted away from where it use to grease  

My densely manly skin

Yet it feels like ages, long gone

Since she disappeared before my sight.

I sleep with her, Wake with her

Looking around thereafter,

Oh she's not here

But near the shore I exist, 

where my eyes cannot see

Nor my leg could walk

Amidst multitudes about me

I feel yet so alone, lonely too

That thousand words flew by

My ear couldn't hold any

My heart, I could feel it

Drifting away from the place I exist 

To yesterday before the wave of hands 

Oh ye, that yesterday, the halcyon days

The halcyon day Bathed with smiles 

Kisses and unbreakable nearness

E'en though once before now

In my mind I harbour

Thoughts I'm too strong to feel alone

And only the near vista

Would be painted on my mind

To slough off her existence

Till time pass to see again

Alas! I feel the emptiness 

In the abyss of my soul

Love, is it you?

Eyes of the universe see

Let thy tongue tell

SWICTHED SIDE, SAME OLD BLOCK

I sat on a concrete stool

Underneath a twilight crescent moon

Gazing at a geezer's dark room

Dabbing on a trinket I once used

My eyes not dismayed, calmly I behold

So tomorrow I won't be told

The tale of the trinket and the new lord

Switched side, same old block

Waltzed out the dark room, the trinket

Soon follow, the geezer clad in white singlet

An harlot? My eyes know one

That gives pleasure with no money gone

Switched side, same old block 

I beckon, oh trinket come

I know well that place you came from 

Has it become your home?

A place to make songs with melodious tone

Callow fool, it's just a stone throw away

From the place you use to stay

In cold nights with no wool shawl

Oh trinket, have you no shame at all?

Switched side, yet same old block

I wish the trinket sheer luck.

#loverias

TO MY EX

So long a letter
My hand too short to write
There may not be a later
So doing this, I hope right

Today, your day my day
Coloured white,coloured black
Mixed cloud clad the day
Like a book, memories flipping back

I look to the yesterday
And I see, the grin smile
That accost the unknown face
Tales of two to walk miles

Behold! the euphoric chapter
that graced the long mile
Alas the two together that saunter
Went asunder along the mile

The path, so rough
The mile not walked
The two not tough
All got stalked

Still your day, my day
first to surface on this soil
Happily I wish Happy birthday
Savour the jive, lite the galore

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

NOT HERE

Without you here,
I stare here and there
Nothing to cause me to cheer
Under the bright sunny noon sky
I walked till my tiredness reached high
No one to pat my aching back,
No one to fill my hungry sack
loosed upon me, a lugubrious frown
Oh! Dunmias, why leave now
Why leave, why leave
The dawn is yet to break, see
Darkness still hold sway here
Without you here
I have no beacon
Yet no one to beckon
When my eyes can't see through
The aspect of the night's gloom
Left alone in this concrete wall
I miss you, that's just all