hello guys, this poem is just a selection from my poetry book, i will so much appreciate more posts of something like this, Bring it out !!!

[center]let there be peace

let the silent doves of the sky sour above the planet earth,just like the heavenly birds of the sacred sky.

let the stream flow in tranquil to meet its line and blow around the peaceful breeze of bliss and life.

let the trees blow around the diamond morning dew, to quench the thirst of soul and that of inquiring mind

let the golden night glow down and up the streets cooling every admiring sight

let the gate of heaven remain open wide
so the earth can feel its peaceful tide

let our weapons of wear be buried deep beneath the earth

so that not even a flash comes back to our mind

let the city smile with their hearts

let love and merriment twinkle like beautiful stars of the African night[/pre]

let there be peace[/center]



criticisms are welcome

its a kool masterpierce really enjoy the concord and simple grammatical structure and stlye keep it up

Thanks man.
Here is another one done by me, expecting from you people too.

Good evening Africa

Good evening Africa
where the ancient city lies
if i could sit under your sky
there should be no reason not to smile
enjoying the cool breezes of your highs

with your sweet water
flowing over my feet as i drink
Africa, of culture that nourishes life
Africa sweet Africa
A place to live
whether at dusk or dawn

the storm

when the angry air called a meeting
all the rubbish and wast of the north, west, east, and south
met at a point in the space
holding along with it hot red sparkling gold sand dust
swerving dangerously to and fro the four cardinal points
if all the gods and goddesses of the earth
could lose their anger in some seconds
they could not their the angry rolling wind
neither the roar from a thousand hungry lion
cos it travels fast and wide
with a loosed hell of rage
yes i saw it travel
it traveled far down there and vanished in the middle of no where.

I loved the second and third
You also seems to be more intimate with poems with its theme on Africa, very patriotic of you, and the poem on god and goddesses, really got me hyped, thinking how I would love to try my hands on that too, all in all keep it up

abdulone:

hello guys, this poem is just a selection from my poetry book, i will so much appreciate more posts of something like this, Bring it out !!!

[center]let there be peace

let the silent doves of the sky sour above the planet earth,just like the heavenly birds of the sacred sky.

let the stream flow in tranquil to meet its line and blow around the peaceful breeze of bliss and life.

let the trees blow around the diamond morning dew, to quench the thirst of soul and that of inquiring mind

let the golden night glow down and up the streets cooling every admiring sight

let the gate of heaven remain open wide
so the earth can feel its peaceful tide

let our weapons of wear be buried deep beneath the earth

so that not even a flash comes back to our mind

let the city smile with their hearts

let love and merriment twinkle like beautiful stars of the African night[/pre]

let there be peace[/center]



criticisms are welcome

you seem to be doing very good at composing poems, but i think this would realy be a masterpiece after you proof read and correct spelling,SOUR i take it you mean soar e.t.c

Nice Poem. I like the depiction of mother nature. Your use of imagery is dope as well.
am a poet like ya.
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Cold Cold Heart
Come away with me in the night
Come away with me
And I will write you a song
Come away with me on a bus
Come away where they cant tempt us
With their lies
I want to walk with you
On a cloudy day
In fields where the yellow grass grows
Knee-high
So wont you try to come
Come away with me and we'll kiss
On a mountaintop
Come away with me
And I'll never stop loving you
And I want to wake up with the rain
Falling on a tin roof
While I'm safe there in your arms
So all I ask is for you
To come away with me in the night
Come away with me

PLAY OF MY LIFE

      Prologue
My life stinks! Nay, it is not good looking itself
Yet it gives me an ocean in the eyes
‘Tis a search through past vastly that reveals
Intransigence in mouth breath and sound
      Act 1 scene 1
She sat close to the banking rivers
‘Tis true she had been sealed
But that glowing attraction stood in between
      * * * * * * * * * * * * *
I lured her into dirty black
By killing her husband
So together we would dwell
      Act 1 scene 2
That day involved judges
And men in corporate black
Twenty-five years was my sentence
And on the stand, she received a judge
Nay, it is not true
What did she have to do?
I gave her freedom from her man
Kiss the ground oh my soul;
‘Tis true I done been used


copyright: irabor jeffrey (jey_d_poet)

poetry is freedom,
poetry is a city without laws
poetry is a states of a sane mind seeing things in an insane view
poetry is putting words to battle field and coming home with victory
poetry is knowing the answers to an unasked question
poetry is our refuge
poetry is saying yes and meaning yes with a NO
poetry is the streets of jakande on the 26th of December
poetry is laying down swords and picking up words
poetry is hurting words to unhurt a heart
poetry is beauty
poetry is a man on his knees with a diamond ring saying "pls set me free and marry me"
poetry is beauty ugly
poetry is me
poetry is cold shower in the Sahara
poetry is life, more to come

thanks to all the guys who have been commenting and also posting their various replies to this thread.

@princesa, jeythunder, onoedosio, and area. nice work and i will like to say more ink to your pen

The failure

Alas! I’ve failed again
Not worthy to grace the rain
In my private life
I’m surrounded by Damocles’ knife
Yeah, I do see bright lights
But then after this tight sight,
It should be time to fall over again
And then say I’ve failed again

Considering all aspects of life
Especially when taking a big dive,
It crumbles to the start then
We say we’ve failed when
Our lives crumbles, our fame fades
And we lose our aces and jades
Hearing that sound of game over down the lane,
We say we’ve failed again

Hi failures and fellas,
I send this to your faxes and tellers
Whenever you climb a ladder and fall,
Carefully lean that ladder on the wall
Find another ladder
And see joy fill your bladder
And now, you’ll say “we haven’t failed have we?”
But know that this was brought from yours faithfully.

i appreciate the poems of everyone in this thread
area, abdul, jey and everyone who spin their words in fine thread

so here is mine

365 dayz come and gone

365 days I walked in the rain with my eyes in a tearful haze
365 days I lived with the pain ‘cos I thought they’d be better dayz
365 days I felt empty and lost in a hopeless maze
365 days I fell with no supporting base
365 days I felt trapped swimming unrestraint in space
365 days I reminisced the fun we had before the parting dayz

But on the 366th days I threw the gloom right out the room
Freed myself from the invisible rope that tied me in doom
Made myself prosper like a rose in the sunlight bloom
And found myself a replacive charming groom

Its like life to win and lose
And my tears had paid the dues
Let the dead let the living be
For the two world housing the beings
Must never have a link
So the balance would forever click

Goodbye my lover for I have to leave
You are beyond pains gone to the world of the dead,
but I live and I must forge ahead


_{am heart broken}

nice one @ princesa and jeythunder

here is another one-

BEAUTIFUL BIRDS OF NIGHT

beautiful birds of night
who's wrong thee today
that makes thee look so sad like a dethroned king
it's make your sweet mellifluous voice sound coarse
and your wings so heavy as if controlled by a pulley
why have you cease singing of your journey long


i mean the song you sang for the flowers in the moon
that one that you use to sing that makes your wing fly high
and the ones you sang to call the mountain close
why the sudden change into a dirge

sad beautiful birds of this princely sky
covered and crowned with clusters of stars
i pray you don't care so much about life
for its, full of rosy flowers embroidered with thorns
i hope the cool breeze of the sky ease your troubled mind
i wish you a nice day in the happy sky
which you now sadly fly

that got to me

princesa:

that got to me

really,thanks

PIRACY

Piracy has gone round
To everywhere things are found
Taking a good look at me
Will say I can’t be two or three
So why is there
A miming me who is rare
And sometimes hard to see
Though, he doesn’t have a complexion as me

He pirates every move I make
So fast even without a break
A dark mischievous creature
That sometimes walks in my favour
He plays dirty tricks on me at night
At a point, I began liking him right
He follows me even to the meadow
So, I named him my shadow.

BLACK DIAMOND

Black diamond
what a lust that shines brighter than the stars
the pride of a nation
an embroidery of nature
a jewel of life
best to golden treasures
face of hope
a charm for good future

the moon rested on your head at leisure
to the sun a pleasure

standing unique
just for the bird a click
surrounded by beautiful cactus tree

its the zuma rock
a rock filled with love
the love of nature

wrote this years back in my undergrad days in ife.

Even as a child i dreamt of this day

the day when boys wld grow up to be man

and girls women, a day when the sound of war

wld be heard no more, i dreamt of freedom

freedom from slavery, freedom from oppression

as i child i walked about wit hate in ma heart

where did this heart come from, i know not

wat brought about this hate, injustice i must say

injustice to the human race, injustuce to humanity

can this hate be changed, i say NO

for not from ma mother's womb did it come from

for its was the world that gave it to me and to the world

would it return, but then wat wld the generations to come say

would they not say their freedom was redeem by bloodshed

LET them say so, for does not life lie in the blood

to give a man life is it not by blood and to end one

is it not by blood,

then why do u all look as if sin i did commit

for even as a child i have seen lives of men been take away

i have seen child ma age been thrown into slavery

some been thrown overboard ships for their bones were weak

and movement caused them pain,

noone to help them but the sailors hands that swings them

overboard.

even as i child i dreamt of this day, a day when the cry of

freedom shall be heard across the land

written by

$oulchild

nice one car shopper expecting more from you

i just felt you guyz could solve this mystery for me


CRIME CASE?

Five years ago, he wasn’t born
He was killed despite that fact
His body lies in west Osborn
Being embalmed and that is that.

He resides in Oxford
He wanted to travel far
He was into big time fraud
This was a day before now

He landed at west Osborn
He saw a man in a Mexican hat
His games were newly born
He stole money, and shot at the heart

He had killed one of himself; a terrible thing he had done
Another was to kill him; a curse following generation.

jeythunder:

i just felt you guyz could solve this mystery for me


CRIME CASE?

Five years ago, he wasn’t born
He was killed despite that fact
His body lies in west Osborn
Being embalmed and that is that.

He resides in Oxford
He wanted to travel far
He was into big time fraud
This was a day before now

He landed at west Osborn
He saw a man in a Mexican hat
His games were newly born
He stole money, and shot at the heart

He had killed one of himself; a terrible thing he had done
Another was to kill him; a curse following generation.

Nice poem. expresses the beauty of confusion in wonderful poetry lines.

solution to the mystery- in his dreams