ROWE MARCH EDITION 2016

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MARCH    EDITION    2016

AYINKE MARTINS

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BERIOLA AYANSHINA

THURSDAY 3RD MARCH 2016

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2016 CONTRIBUTORS - TPC VALENTINE POETRY SUBMISSION 2016

MEMBERS OF THE POETRY COURT

We want to say THANK YOU to all our contributors for this year’s VALENTINE POETRY SUBMISSION 2016. Your works are deep, rich and enticing. But like we have all known, that there are Poets and there are POETS!

For those poets that their poems were not published, we want to make it known to you that it’s not that your works are not worth it, but that your work still needs to be re-ironed.

Some poets submitted Nursery Rhymes.

For those that submitted Spoken Word, your works are good, but do not have, the complete version of a poem in them, they only have the free flow of words, rhymes.

Although. It should be noted that we published those poems, as fresh as they are without (makeup’s). We only try to correct Spellings, and words that might not be clear to the poet’s audience/readers.

Note: we are trying to see the possibility of publishing both 2015 poems and 2016 into a book, before the 2nd edition of BEAUTY OF WORDS. But if we are un-able to strike the cord before then, then lets expect it in January 2017.

But for the PDF version as promised, will be made available, as soon as we are done with editing.

2016 CONTRIBUTORS

(We had contributors from more than four (4) countries for this year 2016)

 

1: ADEOSUN OLUWASEYI FRANCIS "FRANCOFON" 

2: Sule T. JOSHUA - NIGERIAN

3: Olatujayan caleb - NIGERIAN

4: Abdulbasit Abubakar Adamu - NIGERIAN

5: Abiola Inioluwa Oluwaseun - NIGERIAN

6: Anca Mihaela Bruma

7: Eziafa Brenda Nwafor - NIGERIAN

8: Ogedengbe Tolu Impact - NIGERIAN

9: OLUWAJUWON (THE SCRIBE) ADAMS - NIGERIAN

10: Egerson Joshua - NIGERIAN

11: Abdulbasit Abubakar - NIGERIAN

12: Lyn Twist

13: Prestige Ifeanyi Bernard - NIGERIAN

14: Sir Caleb

15: Seun Peak

16: Adejumo Kabir - NIGERIAN

17: Daud' O. Shittu

18: Nana Arhin Tsiwah

19: Akor Emmanuel Oche - NIGERIAN

20: Ivvy Isabella Anito - NIGERIAN

21: Salaudeen Habeeb Adebayo - NIGERIAN

22: Ijalusi T. Samuel - NIGERIAN

23: Tendai Rinos Mwanaka

24: Vivian Belford Okoye - NIGERIAN

25: ITUNU AJAO - NIGERIAN

26: Deacon Adigun Temitope Idealism - NIGERIAN

27: Uwandu Chioma Esther - NIGERIAN

28: .u. Faith Edoja - NIGERIAN

29: Sunsampaul Egwu - NIGERIAN

30: Wale Ayinla - NIGERIAN

31: Samuel Leumas BlueAdonis - NIGERIAN

32: Ojo Taiye - NIGERIAN

33: Ibe Chiemezie - NIGERIAN

34: Obichukwu Nkem - NIGERIAN

35: Okoemu Okoemu - NIGERIAN

36: Abienekpen Osaletin Augustine - NIGERIAN

37: Taiye Paul Kolawole - NIGERIAN

38: Brad Kunguru

39: Vine Izuchukwu Evulukwu - NIGERIAN

40: Julie Njuguna - NIGERIAN

41: Emma Blake - NIGERIAN

42: Obichukwu Chidi C - NIEGRIAN

43: Tanimonure Richards Adewale –NIGERIAN\

44: Oluwatobi Akinbode Israel. - NIGERIAN

45: Sneha Susan Shibu – INDIAN

46: Benjamin Elemide – NIGERIAN

47: Ugbo Caleb Onoriode - NIGERIAN

48: Kariuki wa Nyamu – KENYAN

49: Oluwatosin (Double_ST) – NIGERIAN

50: Ayoola Goodyness Olanrewaju – NIGERIAN

51: Ude Ibiam Ufiem – NIGERIAN

52: Ogundepo Titus Idowu - NIGERIAN

53: Adesoye Fisayo Sylvanus - NIGERIAN

54: Oyin Oludipe - NIGERIAN

55: Amazing Samuel Ayoade Wordiator(Blazing Pen) - NIGERIAN

56: Ayuba Momoh Danjumah – NIGERIAN

57: Oki Kehinde Julius - NIGERIAN

59: Adesewa Oyinkansola - NIGERIAN

60: Oko Owi Ocho Afrika - NIGERIAN

61: Akintola Akindele - NIGERIAN

62: Kunle Adebajo - NIGERIAN

63: Olaniyi Olayemi Luke – NIGERIAN

Osigwe Benjamin (Moderator TPC “VPS 2016”)

TPC LEADERS are very excited to see your names on the list for this year 2016.
Thank you.

LOVE IN A MORIBUND WORLD (VALENTINE LOVE POEMS) DAY 11 Features Paul Taiye Kolawole & Oki Kehinde Julius

Today, is the 11th day. Being the last day of ThePoetryCourt Publishing of valentine love poems.
Thanks to all contributors.

THAT NIGHT

 Arewa,
I will
No longer wait for your parent's consent,
 Before I'll manipulate your sour name into mine.
 Cant longer wait for that night, when love will glue us together under
 the blanket,
 Where my Camel will ride your horse that has no tail.

 I want to climb Your erected nipple,
That stand tall, like My Father's palm groove.
My fingers wants to press the sensitive button,
That sat like cone on Your water melon.

You will scream, scream and scream,
No one on earth, will be worthy of Your rescue.
I will dig deep the hole, that makes You a Mother,
When My pistol pestle, start to pound Your mortar.

Woe unto that undies and pants,
That will cover the clitoris of pleasure in between Your leg.
Curse be unto those nicker and skirt,
That will deprive My cuddling, from making You wet.

Your tongue, I want to lick like the lolly pop,
Along with Your virgin lips, that sweet like candy.
Your spine, I'll vertically trace down Your buttock,
Sparing not Your thigh and veins of Your pussy.
 

 My throat is already thirsty for Your saliva,
For I'm not con-tempted with the wine I drank from calabash.
Your lips, I want to chew like a chewing stick,
Pardon me, if I refuse to bite You with a holy kiss.
 

 But before that night, Arewa!
I will never open your leg, like a nylon bag.
 

 Let this covenant ruin my life,
If My lust fulness, will ever rob away your pride.
Let the darkness of Our "horny moon" blind my sight,
If My shackled eye, will ever seduce Your libido to rise.
I promise,I'll wait till that horny night,
Before I'll spew your virginity blood, which is Your pride.
I will lock up, My swinging pendulum in its bob,
Never to let it travel 'to and fro' into Your workshop.

 

Oki Kehinde Julius is a Nigerian Writer, who has won laurel in both Spoken Word slam and page poetry.

 Okikehinde@gmail.com.

 

LOVE IN A MORIBUND WORLD

Have you ever asked why
the female cheetah
keeps its baby in her belly?

Have you ever asked why the
kernel is guarded by a shell?

Have you ever asked why the
snail hides itself in its shell?

The soil holding the plant
after the rain is not a mistake;
neither is sun for the day
and moon for the day
a failed promise to I S R A E L.

God is love even if
we worship in different ways.

Love is everlasting
even if destructive men
try to grind our world to ashes.

Love is peaceful,
even if we try to create the divide.

Love is progressive,
it tells us why the world
should keep being.

Love is sacrificial,
why would some men refuse
to die like Saint Valentine?

Love is tolerant,
just like the ocean tolerates
multitude of fishes.

Love is everything,
It is a reflection of our shared humanity.

Paul Taiye Kolawole "Litera-tee" is a poet and an undergraduate of Kogi State University, Anyigba; he can be reached at  kolawoletaiye@gmail.com 

LOVE IN A MORIBUND WORLD (VALENTINE LOVE POEMS) DAY10 Features Tanimonure Richards Adewale & Samuel Leumas BlueAdonis

THE LOVE

 

earth is in sadness
her peace pierced mouth
frowns her smiling pains galore
and her body tremors the thick sickness
looming large of passionate loved hatred
that hangs heavy death in time's sacred womb
death smiling a monster hunger in wait
of a horrid sweet swallow in totality
with a massive mouth of nuclear attack
whose pathetic munch breaks the sky into terrible tears
and the sun scampers in fear flee safety
gross darkness laughs a mockery remnant on mother earth

where is the love?
where is it exiled?
who has driven it into a missing oblivion?
what makes a scarce silence of it?

i am searching for that unique lone love
and we are many combing corners for it
not amongst the myriads of mocking lean seen on display
not within sweet poisonous treaties and agreements
the headlines hurl at our faces everyday
not found in the holy churches of gigantic sin bellies of deceit
not seen in pious mosques of turbaned corruption of worship
not resting either in the groves and cults of tradition's slavery

i am searching for the love; the unique lone love
not photocopied, scanned, transgendered or cloned
where could it be? someone please show me?

and then the questions flew me up sky high
we overtook the sky, zoomed past planets waving bye
and lo in blazing behold of purest scene unfold
i saw the lost longed love, sitting on a great throne
"oh why did you abandon mother earth?"
"why are you making her suffer so,
in wearies of wars, miseries of calamities bold?"
it smiled at me; i was sweetened by its glee
and its soft baby voice filled me up so deep
"I AM STILL WITH EARTH; AND I AM NOT WITH HER"
"i make my home in the homes of my heart
and earth will never find me in fruitless search
until earth finds my heart; my heart in earth's
within murks of moribund, it will be a fright of find"

and so this speaks the piece of miss
of true love in a moribund world
find its heart, earth and live it for sure
discard your created parades of deception charades galore.

  

Tanimonure Richards Adewale is one of the upcoming new generation poets from Nigeria and Africa as a whole. He has deep passion for painting realities with words and leaving lines gaping awe in admiration. He resides in Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria and can be reached on his facebook 

Page:www.facebook.com/artface. EMAIL: moviart636@gmail.com

TO MY BEST FRIEND

A song of true-Blue love
Ethereal friends join me seraphinely
As I sing this song with colorful voices of water
Venal vibes pouring my ray of smiles
To the sun with sublime petals of light

To the tunes of flowers
Beautiful cherry blossom
The garden of stars is friendship

To the voices of the west wind
Western Bluebell in the hycinthine sky
True love is the truest heart of nobles

Covenant of exhilaration
On the dale of music and passion
Shining vale of beautiful beatitude
To swirl of dewy cloud in gentle sough

To the flowering tones
The rosy honey on the lips of my mind
Showering magnolia and narcissus
Pride of friendship
A citadel of oneness

To my Best Friend on the isle of lagoon
A smiley Cherub
heartbeats of heaven,
Star of David
Banner of Jonathan,
Songs of Solomon
The psalmist description,
Insignia of affection
Emblematic peace,
The Chorale of birds
Timbre of Eagles,
Central garden heartening s
The Blue apple of pristine,
The lyre of geniality
Vega of glee,
Colours of my ink
Joyful ivory of gold

His presence like
Banquet of wine and music
World truest treasure on the beach of serendipity
A rainbow within new multiple colors
A spring of diamond and the sea of gold

My Palmy'ness cloud
Shady bower of my head,
Crown of his maiden
My symphony of sapphire
Spectre of precious stones
And a Dynamic hues of Jacaranda

A friend adamantine like spanish Armada
Shield of my heart
Creator of happy mind
My strength and solace

A guardian angel from Avalon
His heart is Love

In the best State of friendship
Wonderful melody of Trinity's territory
Mystified feeling, supernovic
Frisson of bliss
And aura of delirium

I met you in the central blithe of June
Magical dovetail myrr by star dune
Smiles that light the moon with sun-rays
Bringing forth enchanting gale to my happy days

Take me to the windy mountains of spices
So Cosy inspiring blue poetry

Knowing you best friend
Is like tasting sweet white wine
from the ambient of Glowing vine
Which angels tend

The month of May may juice June
My best friend Is my best tune
January may knit to February
Shrine of Friendship is Love's sanctuary ..

Happy Valentine's day
My besty.
This is my gift

To Jonathan Joshua Akaniyene ....aka Alucado Kakacious Kaka

Samuel Leumas BlueAdonis is a poet, resides in Lagos but from Enugu . He believes in Love .

LOVE IN A MORIBUND WORLD (VALENTINE LOVE POEMS) DAY 9 Features Oko Owi Ocho Afrika & Oyinkansola Adesewa

FRAGRANCE FROM A WEEDED GARDEN

My heart rains cataract
And my eyes pave streams
Through my cheeks to paddle
The boat of pain you sailed
Into my heart.

I cry dry cry in memory of
Our fragrance in garden of love.
How you planted thousand grains
Of butterfly in vast acres of
My loamy heart.

In our bountiful period of love
You planted and watered our
Love with watering can of your
Lips. Your spittle and the beam
From your eyes bloomed love.

But today?
I inhale scents of flowers
From a weeded garden.
Melodies of music from a
Deserted concert.

I count stars during days.
Every page of our story
Is now written in tense past,
Time pass and I still have scars
Of your love whirling around.

2015.12.21
Benue, Makurdi

Oko Owoicho pen named Oko Owi Ocho Afrika was born in Udabi Adoka in Otukpo local government of Benue state.He attended his secondary school in Lagos where he served as the Secretary General of AJ HOUSE OF POETRY. A writing organization based in Ajegunle. He has performed on lots of stages in Lagos and Benue respectively. He featured in Lagos State Black Heritage Festival 'Night of the Poet' 2014 and Sevhage Literary Festival 2015. He is a Pan Africanist who base most of his writings on Africa and sees Art as a tool that can help facilitate the cultural and economic emancipation of Africa. He is currently studying English in Benue State University where he is currently the Financial Secretary of WRITERS LEAGUE. He is currently working on his collection 'Broken Rhythms.'

WHAT LOVE IS

A strong cord is where love lies
Embrace it always, in your heart
Love, a feeling that makes you grow
Love, a feeling that makes you conquer
Love, something so perfect
           Flawless
Love, something that once you have.
   You will never want to leave.
Love everyday
In it is the happiness you desire.

Oyinkansola Adesewa is a poet

LOVE IN A MORIBUND WORLD (VALENTINE LOVE POEMS) DAY 8 - Features Benjamin Elemide & Oyin Oludipe

LOVE UNEXPRESSED

Before father evolved home into nest of blocks
we lived in house of fading glory with shivering walls
diminutive and discreet, which swallowed my solitude.

There, I saw her perch on a tree behind our window
whose whispering roots sank in my lonely heart.

She loves chores, but I wonder if love was ever one of them.

She lives with a young couple with a young baby girl
who loves playing in the serenity of my arms:
this goodness has purpose and this purpose has a vision;
This vision loves to see the young pretty damsel
whose feathers forms an ocean of colours
blushing my confidence of enchanting words.

When I look at her spotless face,
my heart dance in the rhythms of her smiles;
those smiles once shattered the rage of the sun.

Her voice is a song that sinks into me;
but this tree is sloppy and my palms shiver,
my eyes become frozen at the sight of her wings.

The eve of our departure to father’s miracle of sand
was our last meeting, the last of our night songs,
song of usual words and unusual beating of hearts.

She plucked a feather from her wing and gave me,
when it reached my palm, it touched the depth of my soul.
This feather is the most sincere word that ever touched me.

It punctured my soul, and I became flooded with rivulets
of memory, longing, ocean of wishes that the sun of dreams
cannot dry, haunting me with love unexpressed.

Elemide Benjamin is a biochemistry student of Funaab. He is a poet, short story writer, and spoken word poet. His poems have been published in anthologies both online and hardcopy. He is the visioneer of The Great Minds, a nongovernmental organization that is youth-oriented, towards achieving a society of youths with balanced life.

 IN YOUR LAUGHTER – OYIN OLUDIPE 

(for Ami)

In your laughter, heavens linger
And I wonder if the rainbows quiver
On your song’s tenderness—as I—
As hair—as all the world that spins on your tongue
When shards of your presence touch me here,
Shredded in thunders. In your laughter,
Paths resonate, a season desires veneration
In dreams, and all epiphanies of a brittle sky
Unfetter the prisoned heart—and glow…

But not from any other but itself
Upon the hour of immolation.

In your laughter, the noon succumbs,
And fantasies flutter like a nest of transcendent birds
Coursing to air-roots, to sudden plunges
Of the heart in sugar seams and melodic veins;
Eternities dance in your laughter—as air—

They dance—as that defiance of sand—
As the desire of wind—in instant passion—
As the courage of fire…


I know your laughter
I know your laughter—
O I know your laughter, like the hurricanes
Of my midnight skull, the tickle beneath my scalp,
The manuscript beneath my desk, or that
Primordial rein of the telephone ballad
In quiet recesses of my fear


In your laughter, my silence is a story
In your laughter, my solitude recedes.

Oyin Oludipe is the Nonfiction Editor of EXPOUND: A Magazine of Arts and Aesthetics.  He is a contributing poet to the anthology, "Black Communion: Poems of 100 New African Poets". 

LOVE IN A MORIBUND WORLD (VALENTINE LOVE POEMS) DAY 7 Features Akinbode Oluwatobi Israel & Sneha Susan Shibu

SONGS OF SOLOMON II.

Let me hold your tiny hands

Like a driver and his gears

Increasing our acceleration,

Driving me to ecstasy.

I will travel over your land,

With my shinning shoes and its lace,

I will walk over them,

Leaving my footprints, beautifully seated.

Teach me the lyrics in songs of Solomon,

Split the verses with your curves,

That I may be born again,

Chasing only your shadow.

On your mountains I will see the world,

I will see the dusty roof of others

And be full of praise

Of how you are.

Let no clothes separate us

When we hug in the presence of candles,

The moon watches our door,

Let no cloth clot our oozing flow.

Akinbode Oluwatobi Israel, is a growing poet, singer and teacher of God’s word. A graduate of chemistry from the University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Kwara state, Nigeria. He hails from Ipokia local government, in Ogun state, Nigeria. He loves to write in simplicity to influence this complex world of ours. 

 SECOND CHANCE

As I lie awake staring at the moon
I see your face in every twinkling star,
I smell your smell as the wind blows by,
I feel your warm breath on my neck,
Fantasies of a lost mind, I hear you say.

I think of your hand in mine,
Mine alone to clasp and hold dear.
I remember your tears,
When I failed to bare my heart.

Don’t fear! I hear you say.
My only fear was the fear of losing you,
And cruel time did it for me.

You went away without a goodbye,
Leaving me in heartaches and woes.
Move on! I hear you say.

If ever life does me a good turn,
I would resurrect you, my love,
And say all that were once unsaid,
And feel the pangs of a mad lover.

Come closer! I hear you say.

If from your realm, you could hear my song,
Clasp this dying lover’s hand,
And take me to where eternity wanes.

I will be yours and you will be mine.

Emptiness around me shatters in your merry laughter.
They will come for me in the morning
And say, ‘He died in sleep,
Peaceful and without a struggle’.

And would wonder about the smile on my face.
But my love, you know, you know!

Sneha Susan Shibu is an Indian residing in Uganda. She is trained as a teacher, she writes stories and poems for both children and adults.  Her short story Roses For Betty was longlisted for Writivism 2015 prize and  have won the first prize for a children's story competition held in India in 2013 for her story Dotty And The Albino Dragon. Her works have been published in different anthologies. She loves nature and have an interest in photography.

LOVE IN A MORIBUND WORLD (VALENTINE LOVE POEMS) - DAY6 - Features Ojo Taiye & Wale Ayinla

 

ANOTHER FOURTEENTH

I

Just like yesterday
under papa’s udala tree
I consummated my love for you

Adeeza
the diamond jewelry on your ring finger
a seal of my servility
in the presence of our sun, moon and stars
to this art called: marriage

Adeeza
the oracle of my heart
the sweet smelling flowers of an orchid

II

Adeeza
the rind of a lemon amidst colorful origami
the song of the male nightingale
the sliver of light that silvers the sheik palace

Adeeza
the bevy bosom of the east
the protruded gullet of the west
the daughter of purdah in the north

III

Adeeza
my guardian seraph




Ojo Taiye is a twenty- three-year-old microbiology graduate from Nigeria. He loves books. Taiye, has some of his muddled thoughts published in a few e-magazine. He is currently rounding up his 1 year voluntary youth service in Nigeria.

MI RE ME

i
From the bonded chords of my heart
I loose these words that ache..
I have sifted these lines
From the emotions that nails
My heart and cause it to tear.

ii
Abeke,
I once sang you a song
Sung by the greatest psalmist of all time...
But you chose not to sleep
On the lyrics that was clustered
With conducive bed of honeyed words.

iii
Abeke,
Will a chameleon choose not to change its skin
Because of the changes in climate?
Will the rain choose not to fall
Because of the scorching of the sun?
Will you because of this moribund world
Choose not to love?

iv
Abeke,
I have come on bended knees
With a harp and a band...
I have come to sing you what you love...
I have come with the snake to hiss the Mi,
With the frog to leap the Re,
And with the last one which is Me.

Wale Ayinla is a young and promising poet whose works have featured on several blogs and journals. He is known for his equivocal command of the English language and he has, since he chose this path, not disappointed in his field.

LOVE IN A MORIBUND WORLD (VALENTINE LOVE POEMS) DAY 5 - Features Vivian Belford & Uwandu Chioma Esther

FOR YOU

This half moon

Is the shape of hearts

Left to ponder

Where the other half is

This half moon

Are moribund hearts

Left to wander dark eerie clouds

Alone on their own

Lies rising at sunrise

Dragging me down to mourn at dawn

The torture of truth not told

Left this heart, brittle 

In halves of doubt with doubts

The aches of vows not preserved

has held this frail soul 

Hostage by half-truths and lies

But

For you, I will stand the sting with bliss

For you, I will sneer the sorrow with smirk

For you, I will hop this hopeless hush with hope

For you, dear child

This mother will always believe in love

Vivian Belford Okoye is a freelance writer by day and an aspiring actor by night, she started writing professionally in 2013. Some of her work has been featured in Indian periodicals, Tuck magazine Creativity webzine. Dead Snakes, Leaves of ink She is currently staring in her own movie "living and dying with a smile"

she writes from Abuja Nigeria.

 I LOVE YOU

I love you

Without reasons

I love you

Without pretense

I love you

Without sense

I love you

Without knowing why...

I want to love you more

Until the moon turns red

I want to love you more

Until the sun darkens

I want to love you more

Until all reasons give way

I want to love you more

Until you immortalize my name

On the walls of your heart

I want to love you more

Until every high mountain becomes low

Until every hill becomes plain

Until waters flow in the deserts

Until life itself gives way

I want to love you more

Until I lose myself in you

I want to love you more

Until love's end

And since love has no end

I want to love you till the end of time...

Uwandu Chioma Esther, is a poet and a writer. She loves to touch lives and make people happy with her art... Art for her is not just for art sake, but for life sake! "Poetry gave me a voice and I'm using it well"...

LOVE IN A MORIBUND WORLD (VALENTINE LOVE POEMS) - DAY 4 - Features Salaudeen, Habeeb Adebayo & Tendai Rinos Mwanaka

QUEST

I    I am a caged canary
The urge to sing itches me
Here I am with no rhyme
Oh! Set me free to sing of love

L    I am the legged Cattle-egret
The zeal to dance overwhelms me
But no music to start the show
Free the canary! I need some lyrics

O    I am like a hungry lion
My stomach aches in pain
To devour, I have no prey
Oh come in earnest dear victim

V    I am the lonely love bird
Affectionately filled with passion
I feel of love in solitude
Oh! Come take me chosen one

E    I am the ardent lover
In my heart, your love swims
To hide it, I could not try
In tears, your love flows

U    I am like a trained soldier
In this case, no going back
Headlong I have fallen in love
Even though you’ve got no clue.

© SALAUDEEN HABEEB ADEBAYO  (17/06/2015)

Salaudeen, Habeeb Adebayo is a young man, a poet, playwright and a Critic with great zeal for scholarship. He hold Diploma in Mass Communication, National Certificate in Education in English and Theatre arts. A graduate of Theatre and Performing arts, from the prestigious Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria. He is currently a postgraduate student of Development Communication, department of Theatre and Performing arts, ABU Zaria.

KISSING

Constructing a meeting with her

She weaves an appearance

Allowing the impossibility to enter

South winds of desire rising

Ready to snuggle in cotton candy dreams

She kisses you: brown lips

Dark honey, the sweet lips

Dripped in spit like a newborn thing

Her tongue pushing in, bequeathing

Assaulting each other with love

Your heart is caught on her lips

Your cold, ideal slowly melting

Under her hot particulars

While the moon-red, soft

Inevitable, sizzles around you

It is a full moon rolling down

The stairs, like a heavenly

Body, gliding, crashing onto

The earth, the light, the weight

Of its heat pressing layers

Of your flesh down.

A deeply planted splendour

Burns beneath your breast

You are a teenager bursting

Into his surprising body,

Headlong and you, alive to the light

Telling you of steps to be taken

When the kissing consumes you

You face each other

With vengeance, ripped

Each other’s clothes, rolled

Around in the dirty

And make love like animals

So she is born, and you watch

Born of men, born in need

In lust that is in love

You are her world, she is yours

You have a partner for anything

Competition, copulation

Cooperation, conversation?

Tendai Rinos Mwanaka is a multi-disciplinary artist who lives in Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe. Contracted books coming out in 2015 include, Zimbabwe: The Urgency of Now (creative nonfiction), Finding a Way Home (stories novel), Revolution (poems), Democracy, Good Governance, and Development in Africa (scholarly essays, co-editor), Best New African Poets 2015 Anthology(poetry, co-editor). Other books published, Keys in the River (stories novel), Voices from Exile (poetry), Zimbabwe: The Blame Game (creative nonfiction). He is currently editing Experimental Writing: Volume 1, Africa Vs. Latin America with Mexican writer Ricardo Rodriguez. He is also a visual artist (photography, painting, drawing, collage, video.), sound/musical artist, mentor, translator, scholar, theorist, reviewer, editor, critic... Work has been published in over 300 journals in over 27 countries, translated into French, Germany and Spanish.