GEHENNA: by Aremu Adams Adebisi
Gehenna, The long narrow thorny pass Through furnaces over some muddy floors, Terribly disgusting to lost lamb's souls; Sending forth malignant odors To their ephemeral bodies. Gehenna, Unaccessed by the...
HAPPENINGS: Aremu Adams Adebisi
Wailings of children, Faces of sadness, Mournings of siblings, Bitings of regrets; For land is bloody In endless bombings. 'Had I wishes', 'Had I knowns'. Laments of fathers, Dirges of...
NOT MY CONCERN: Aremu Adams Adebisi
Hear me, kinsmen! Hear my lamentations! Those who do what has not been done Shall experience what has not been witnessed. If an ugly vulture Keeps pecking to death its...
PROGRESSIVE DESTINATION: Aremu Adams Adebisi
Driver, you stopped by them calling out In your sugar-coated voice of canvassing For the need for change and development And adequate uncommon mobility That promised a progressive destination. Driver,...
THE GHETTO STREET: Aremu Adams Adebisi
Waking up unremarkably To some silly shout. Arguments never culminate. We stop not the bout. The late night lovers hand in hand, Also in the night. Beside some cars some...
THE BEGGAR: Aremu Adams Adebisi
A building high above the speedy Busy vehicles of mindless drive. It was built to serve as safety For citizens; to be their hive. This building bears feets of thousands...
A LOVELY DREAM: Aremu Adams Adebisi
After plays of the midnight band, We strolled late past the lone parkland; She kissed gracefully my lips more As we danced through the backyard door. On the grassy field...
WHOOSEE, WHOOSAY AND WHOOSHARE: Aremu Adams Adebisi
Whoosee, Whoosay, Whooshare, who's who? True love sadly is hard to find Likewise true friendship can't be bind. The musing moon of gleaming light Has darkening earth to make a...