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Arewa,
your
beauty is a blade cutting deep into
the
fleshiness of my muse, to draw blood
plastering
crispy papers with fine layers of
words
refined in the industry of infatuation.
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Arewa,
your
beauty is that of the departing sun
radiating
its elegance through waters
basking in
the calmness of the young night
unworried
by alarming approach of darkness.
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Arewa,
your
beauty is a poet versifying moments spent
under the
shade of a tree, under endless canopies
of skies
deserted by stars because you were
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Arewa,
your
beauty exists on the glossiness
of a paper
traced with impatient hands
held captive by locks whose keys are kept
in the
safe of your candid eyes...
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Arewa,
your
beauty is an inhaler to my asthmatic needs,
a pore
space on my tongue sinking prodigious wants
into the
abyss of contentment. Your beauty
is a
restaurant where admiration freely dines...
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Arewa,
your
beauty is a creaking bed suffering
under the
weight of a thousand admirers
tossing
coin-like desires within confines
of a heart
pleading for a victorious head.
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Arewa,
your
beauty is an ointment flowing
from the
base of your brain
to the
base of your fleeting feet. Your beauty
is a
creation of the seventh day.
Biography
Kolade Olanrewaju Freedom is the
editor of PIN Quarterly Journal and moderator of various poetry contests
including the prestigious Nigerian Students Poetry Prize and Eriata Annual Food
Poetry Contest. He has authored two poetry collections entitled The Light
Bearer and Punctured Silence.
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