Submissions by mcwealthng (olawumi babatunde)
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
Olawumi is an Architect. He studied in Lagos,Nigeria.
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
19th Sep 2016 5:36pm
19th Sep 2016 5:36pm
Eating Melons
We sat there
We sat, in the poorly lit parlor
Biting deep
Fleshy cuts of watery melons
Eating together is sweetest
We sat eating melons
I took glance of him
Casting down thoughts on my mind
His embroidered gown
Have many voids to fill
He’d been oddly quite
With faraway looks
Often lost in thoughts
As if he knew
The medic’s test results
Munching off our shared melons
I cheered him off his reverie
He is full of lovely memories
And insights into many grey areas
Reminiscences never will elude of me
...
We sat, in the poorly lit parlor
Biting deep
Fleshy cuts of watery melons
Eating together is sweetest
We sat eating melons
I took glance of him
Casting down thoughts on my mind
His embroidered gown
Have many voids to fill
He’d been oddly quite
With faraway looks
Often lost in thoughts
As if he knew
The medic’s test results
Munching off our shared melons
I cheered him off his reverie
He is full of lovely memories
And insights into many grey areas
Reminiscences never will elude of me
...
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1 Comment
UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
19th Jul 2012 11:51am
19th Jul 2012 11:51am
Words
Cryptic words
That which depicts we
Our genesis unraveled
Immortality un expressed
Living words, demised words
Entwined oration
Not authored Verses
Civilization kept you missing
Buried with debris
Washed away in time
For in you immortality therein lies
Earth archived thee dearly
Knotted words, our past
Scripts for eternity
Recurring in humanity
Mortals can't fathom thee
For you were encryted deep
Engraved in our ancient past
On matters corrupted
Yet future lies therein
Sent word,...
That which depicts we
Our genesis unraveled
Immortality un expressed
Living words, demised words
Entwined oration
Not authored Verses
Civilization kept you missing
Buried with debris
Washed away in time
For in you immortality therein lies
Earth archived thee dearly
Knotted words, our past
Scripts for eternity
Recurring in humanity
Mortals can't fathom thee
For you were encryted deep
Engraved in our ancient past
On matters corrupted
Yet future lies therein
Sent word,...
899 reads
3 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
3rd Apr 2012 11:38am
3rd Apr 2012 11:38am
Poetic Fornication
Poetic way of thinking, a virtue not belonged to all if not pedagogic, it is didactic and when well documented and imparted, it’s a gizmo for races. Poem, as known can be rhetoric, written, expressive. It’s expressive in the sense that it can be acted, dramatized or cast. Words, how they’re used, articulated and projected are the oil that lubricates the cranks and shafts of mythical poems!
Euphrates committed fornication with the Egyptian. To fornicate does not really mean what comes to the mind; it’s being pressed at the breast and bruised at the teat of virginity. The demonstration...
Euphrates committed fornication with the Egyptian. To fornicate does not really mean what comes to the mind; it’s being pressed at the breast and bruised at the teat of virginity. The demonstration...
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OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
6th Mar 2012 2:01pm
6th Mar 2012 2:01pm
Volks wagon never die
Vagaries of life had aged him
Coupled with incessant consumption of cheap alcohol
Struggles had damaged his temperament, judging, values
He’s the driver of an old rickety, jalapeño, kombi bus
Like its driver, Volks bus had aged too
I rode adrift in it
Three press able steels, serves as the control
The steering, a rounded steel marvelously adjoining the stern
What was formerly the dash board
Now has a plastic board, polystyrene filled its remains
Junks of tickets braces the gear
An ancient decors portrays the mock of aesthetics
...
Coupled with incessant consumption of cheap alcohol
Struggles had damaged his temperament, judging, values
He’s the driver of an old rickety, jalapeño, kombi bus
Like its driver, Volks bus had aged too
I rode adrift in it
Three press able steels, serves as the control
The steering, a rounded steel marvelously adjoining the stern
What was formerly the dash board
Now has a plastic board, polystyrene filled its remains
Junks of tickets braces the gear
An ancient decors portrays the mock of aesthetics
...
698 reads
1 Comment
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
1st Mar 2012 4:13pm
1st Mar 2012 4:13pm
Reverie
Reverie! Drifting on off
An aloof-er in a crowd
Won’t cut away from the root
Where nature meets humans
Greenness, oh forests cry
Freshness, decaying smell of foliage
Moistened earth, the first rains
The dews had touched the ground
Misty mornings sliced through
Through, by streaming sunlight
Birds’ chirps bird like
The ratty noise is rats
Nature poisoned mankind
With its beauty to admit his source
II
Reverie! Reminiscing on
Still aloof in a maddening city
Distress...
An aloof-er in a crowd
Won’t cut away from the root
Where nature meets humans
Greenness, oh forests cry
Freshness, decaying smell of foliage
Moistened earth, the first rains
The dews had touched the ground
Misty mornings sliced through
Through, by streaming sunlight
Birds’ chirps bird like
The ratty noise is rats
Nature poisoned mankind
With its beauty to admit his source
II
Reverie! Reminiscing on
Still aloof in a maddening city
Distress...
877 reads
2 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
20th Dec 2011 8:22am
20th Dec 2011 8:22am
Tranquility
Tranquility had lay hold of me
Night is come and the beckon of nature been obeyed
I’d woke up from my peaceful rest
Why at that time I rejuvenate, I still can’t fathom
It’s a transition from the realm of dreams to reality
For truly, while at rest, consciousness know not where it was
Till at its wake back to reality
Tranquility still has lay of me
But now it’s with wakefulness and my consciousness
A thousand of my unsettled, all they yearn
Everyone of it cause for it they plead
That even while at ease, the mind is tense
As if in a cross path...
Night is come and the beckon of nature been obeyed
I’d woke up from my peaceful rest
Why at that time I rejuvenate, I still can’t fathom
It’s a transition from the realm of dreams to reality
For truly, while at rest, consciousness know not where it was
Till at its wake back to reality
Tranquility still has lay of me
But now it’s with wakefulness and my consciousness
A thousand of my unsettled, all they yearn
Everyone of it cause for it they plead
That even while at ease, the mind is tense
As if in a cross path...
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SELF POEM
Published
3rd Nov 2011 11:47am
3rd Nov 2011 11:47am
Good same
I've here before been
Yea afore now,I was here
I'll be here till provident change
They'd made become what I am
Days on,churning sames
I'm good now,conjuring sames
Same eon long, yet you say cheers
Same's re-branded,eke seeming good
I'll school me,then a comrade be
I'll principal same someday
Fallen off this ass requires more trial
Smiling fate and "somorin nla nla" both will help
I'll be here and here and here
Till amukiomabe divines change
Same's pupillage, then master on same
Lucida Sans...
Yea afore now,I was here
I'll be here till provident change
They'd made become what I am
Days on,churning sames
I'm good now,conjuring sames
Same eon long, yet you say cheers
Same's re-branded,eke seeming good
I'll school me,then a comrade be
I'll principal same someday
Fallen off this ass requires more trial
Smiling fate and "somorin nla nla" both will help
I'll be here and here and here
Till amukiomabe divines change
Same's pupillage, then master on same
Lucida Sans...
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SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
4th Oct 2011 5:26pm
4th Oct 2011 5:26pm
The true shepherd
Strayed, struggling
Similitude, a sheep short shepherd
Stifling, sulk at life’s stream
Spasm, desirous that quashed, these thirsts
Race! Aye, race is life we therein dwell
Em, em that the herdsman truly true
Stray less, on tracks be sheep whilst life’s grazing
For what the herd craves, shepherd sufficed
But as our world bleats great
All to pasture aside springing streams……..
……… our true shepherd simply hushed Leg go
Similitude, a sheep short shepherd
Stifling, sulk at life’s stream
Spasm, desirous that quashed, these thirsts
Race! Aye, race is life we therein dwell
Em, em that the herdsman truly true
Stray less, on tracks be sheep whilst life’s grazing
For what the herd craves, shepherd sufficed
But as our world bleats great
All to pasture aside springing streams……..
……… our true shepherd simply hushed Leg go
1371 reads
1 Comment
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
5th Sep 2011 12:34pm
5th Sep 2011 12:34pm
Rooster
Having the sunrays seen first
Humanity must be alerted of a new dawning
He had nested acrest the tallest pine
Eyes reaching home and away
Coo- kaa-doo-oo-doo-oo
Crowing, its nature alarm cutting into the silence of nights
Costodian of time, he’d set out early
Gropping till darkness fades for the days breaking
More as streams of light cuts the misty cold morning
He jumped off his top,chested out, neck craning,coo- kaa……..
Re –arranging his colorful feathers, arms spreaded
He has the gait of a proud man, successful and...
Humanity must be alerted of a new dawning
He had nested acrest the tallest pine
Eyes reaching home and away
Coo- kaa-doo-oo-doo-oo
Crowing, its nature alarm cutting into the silence of nights
Costodian of time, he’d set out early
Gropping till darkness fades for the days breaking
More as streams of light cuts the misty cold morning
He jumped off his top,chested out, neck craning,coo- kaa……..
Re –arranging his colorful feathers, arms spreaded
He has the gait of a proud man, successful and...
870 reads
1 Comment
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
5th Sep 2011 12:04pm
5th Sep 2011 12:04pm
Rooster
Having the sun-rays seen first
Humanity must be alerted of a new dawning
He had nested acrest the tallest pine
Eyes reaching home and away
Coo- kaa-doo-oo-doo-oo
Crowing, its nature alarm cutting into the silence of nights
Custodian of time, he’d set out early
Groping till darkness fades for the days breaking
More as streams of light cuts the misty cold morning
He jumped off his top,chested out, neck craning,coo- kaa……..
Re –arranging his colorful feathers, arms spreaded
He has the gait of a proud man, successful...
Humanity must be alerted of a new dawning
He had nested acrest the tallest pine
Eyes reaching home and away
Coo- kaa-doo-oo-doo-oo
Crowing, its nature alarm cutting into the silence of nights
Custodian of time, he’d set out early
Groping till darkness fades for the days breaking
More as streams of light cuts the misty cold morning
He jumped off his top,chested out, neck craning,coo- kaa……..
Re –arranging his colorful feathers, arms spreaded
He has the gait of a proud man, successful...
794 reads
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SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
18th Aug 2011 10:41am
18th Aug 2011 10:41am
Needy in the House
I rushed outta the tabernacle
Bear not could I the shame of it
Empty handed in presence of the High
Love offering, I freely can’t give
I be sated centered front
For the devil’s shame to be
Strategically the first to offer
First to be blessed, vantage positioned
I fled like exorcised
The casting out from a demoniac
So, offering time could pass me by
Saying a desperate prayer in my flight
aarrgghh!!! That penury be far from me
And emptied hand never I come
To his multitude keeping festival!
Bear not could I the shame of it
Empty handed in presence of the High
Love offering, I freely can’t give
I be sated centered front
For the devil’s shame to be
Strategically the first to offer
First to be blessed, vantage positioned
I fled like exorcised
The casting out from a demoniac
So, offering time could pass me by
Saying a desperate prayer in my flight
aarrgghh!!! That penury be far from me
And emptied hand never I come
To his multitude keeping festival!
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SELF POEM
Published
18th Aug 2011 10:29am
18th Aug 2011 10:29am
Cheered I
Merry tide drowns me
Deeply within, I’m peace
Life entails tells satisfaction
Those which were paid to price
Boasts of, now at tips and helms
And as much I live, beckons eternity
Much in gratitude high, myself cheered
For stillness engulfs my sum
Many fulfilled outweighed undone
It’s about those divined, must been
Yearnings of wise that lined my ways
A flagging preset to stay in line
Glaring now be glimpsed reasons not to stray
Tangibles realized are those visualized
Yet more contentment the acquired of me
Oh! As...
Deeply within, I’m peace
Life entails tells satisfaction
Those which were paid to price
Boasts of, now at tips and helms
And as much I live, beckons eternity
Much in gratitude high, myself cheered
For stillness engulfs my sum
Many fulfilled outweighed undone
It’s about those divined, must been
Yearnings of wise that lined my ways
A flagging preset to stay in line
Glaring now be glimpsed reasons not to stray
Tangibles realized are those visualized
Yet more contentment the acquired of me
Oh! As...
805 reads
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