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Re: The Convict by timpaker(m): 1:06pm On Aug 11, 2014 |
The Convict (Tanka) (Escape) Carefully I looked From the tinge of bravery, I concealed my fears; A death rope on my cuffed wrist... Choked life off my torturer. |
Re: The Convict by timpaker(m): 2:17pm On Aug 11, 2014 |
The Convict (Grook) If the night was my worst fight It'd see the tattoo of fear On my face - so clear That it gleams with angered-light And a quest for peaceful vengeance - For to love is to learn how to hate... The paradox of life that decides my fate. Like an innocent devil Is one crime too much? They say once you don't meddle In someone's life you lose touch Of your valued essence My beloved city Don't have pity For the weak, it feeds from them... |
Re: The Convict by timpaker(m): 3:18pm On Aug 11, 2014 |
The Convict (Lyric) Carrying the city's credo cross Is like basking foes and nemesis Not exhuming butterfly smiles Because compliance is love I killed a man of crime mastery He was the city's finest He made my hands bloody His ghost became my chapfallen company I buried the law That snatches my family line As the my bore-pain reaches the abyss In the heart of an enforcer |
Re: The Convict by Nobody: 12:08am On Oct 02, 2014 |
I'm reading this all over again! |
Re: The Convict by timpaker(m): 9:45am On Oct 03, 2014 |
Shikaamaru: I'm reading this all over again! I'll update soon when I return from my journey. How you dey self, and how's madam S.T.A.N.D.D? |
Re: The Convict by Nobody: 9:58am On Oct 03, 2014 |
timpaker: She's doing well Bro. And yes please, do well to update when you have the chance. |
Re: The Convict by Chuksemi(m): 7:50pm On Oct 04, 2014 |
This is sincerely epic. Wow. Wow. Wow. |
Re: The Convict by timpaker(m): 2:07pm On Oct 27, 2014 |
The Convict (Free Verse) I heard her voguish voice At the cave of my ear Rasping and vociferating at top pitched echoes. “wake up sir!” I smelt her tidal air escaping through her warm nostrils As she pecked me with that hurricane breathe And the pavilioned door enveloped her… I woke up again, Looking lost in life My eye sockets were heavy as rock Each blink eclipsing flashes of blurred memories. Sweating like I had battled a ghost, The haunted one with grieving injuries Before exhuming a survival moan Into the strange air. I watched The lady pray to the tritheistic being In strange but courtier tongue For my revivification, Her oval face stained with teary droplets That could drown a mouse in a stoup Her hands all raised high in supplication Under the hottish hut that looks like a hospice And the cloud beamed flashes of curvy lights Variegating and threatening heaven’s peace with thunderous yell; While the sky cried to sleep, But she continued. I pinned my ears out To the audacious entreaties of A young woman who knows not me, A lady summoning the Supreme from his sacred abode, For my sake, Then I must be damned. But Why break a rock over me? The Thomas in me finally twig That between us two, One of us is a friendly stranger. I still can’t remember her And she said she housed my son’s heart Though I recall having a little boy But a full grown lady? As the cloud bleaches into another time I basked away deep into the sky eye And retired back to bed… 1 Like |
Re: The Convict by Buqqui: 11:40am On Dec 20, 2014 |
This is epic. I got addicted reading through,it almost landed me in trouble. Oliver Twisting Bro........ |
Re: The Convict by OMA4U(m): 11:15pm On Jun 27, 2015 |
I read this series all over. Sir Tim, you are a great poet! Is this the end? Come and continue abeg |
Re: The Convict by timpaker(m): 10:20am On Jun 28, 2015 |
OMA4U: Thanks man. I will continue this week. I just found some pieces of the poems that got missing on my drive. Happy Sunday!!! |
Re: The Convict by timpaker(m): 12:32am On Jul 06, 2015 |
The Convict (Drama) THE CONVICT Bits by bits i watched myself broken by you, Even the walls of Jericho would crack by your touch Let alone me, an old broken man, caged by your love Which pours out the tenderness and soothingness of care. The touch of a goddess it seems, submissively my body yield To thee whose love my heart now crave for. YOUNG LADY At dusk, under the soaring sapphire sky It is my face you steal at morning sight, While your wrinkle melt with kiddies blushes, Butterfly smiles polish your rumple cheeks You feel alive, young and like a conqueror, With which your face blossom like the roses of Athens. Is that love i see on your face? THE CONVICT Oh dear! See not the garden of wool on my hair Nor the tears that hides under my creased flare, Your love and its absence i cannot bear For my son's love and I you cannot compare. If you extinguish the spark i have for you Where else would my heart go? When it is locked in the coop of your love. YOUNG LADY Ah! The heart of my heart beat!! Why is your thought blurred with the unimaginable? Is it the lemon grass, aloes and the dried pawpaw leaf? Or the bitter herbs from the forest's garden of St. Paul's shrubbery? We together is like making incense from the devil's beans, And the sun, moon and stars would blind us for incest. THE CONVICT Can't I be caged with you my dear? If your beauty would lead me astray, If it turns me against the world again, i'd gladly beseech it dearly, For I'd rather burn in the devil's lake, drown in its fieriest of fire Till my breathe is whisked like the ode on a Grecian urn. Please lock me in your heart where i'd feel safe of this world, I wish to be imprisoned till your love sets me free. Do not wait for my son, the law doesn't love, it only lives - My son lives for the law. YOUNG LADY Please don't speak so of the love of my life because not even the Stockholmic love i bore, nor the affluently blessed or other audacious men, together can match the modest nature of his love. However, we could have one sin in secrecy Just to test your prowess... the forth night we shall... But please have more wine... 1 Like |
Re: The Convict by timpaker(m): 2:42pm On Oct 08, 2015 |
The Convict (Rhyme Royal) I've lost my shadow but I am not dead, My soul seems nake d as my body flee From the crown of crisis around my head. Darkness and light, both are now against me, Shouldn't my breathe be scared of what i'd be If my life is nothing but a mere trifle? A hunting peg for stern looking men with rifle. The clock has ran for a dozen month now Since I broke-free from my captor's claw. No love, no hate; before me are ups and down, Face of frown, drowning dreams, a broken jaw, A dampened heart, forlorn thought on mazing yaw Which locks me in that sadness that fans my rage, Blustering the embers of revenge that i wage. Happiness has a face, I seen and worn it Even under blemishes of worries, I grin-glee, Now i'm silenced by the same smile my face lit; To move on I need to put on a chameleon skin. I've evinced my fears, no words of my family of me, I've looked up before getting stuck on the floor That my prayers are ricocheting before heaven's door. My intentions are my actions with carefulness, Scheming amid the puzzle of choice, day and night; My imagination arms my feats of thoughtfulness: But further thought could buy me craziness at first sight And I don't trust myself because I have no living might Until I decide to accept the prospects which will embrace - My concern - my well-being, family and love case. 1 Like |
Re: The Convict by timpaker(m): 6:42pm On Oct 19, 2015 |
The Convict (Ninette) Fate, God's game On mere men, Life's on the play; Watching as he's tossed. "Live up your strength" Says the heart, Keep the Faith! 1 Like |
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