Poems

Honey in her name

Found it
even in her name
as exciting as it could be
Honey in her name

Even my heart bears me witness
with the touch of crown
Royalty! Princess!
Now i can count my stars
in the face of the skies

There is a drop of it for one
but i got the rain of its purity
Much to see
Much to touch
Great to experience
count me lucky if u like
Honey in her being!
Adedoyin!!

Toluwalase Adu

I dont know

hmmmmm...!
that is all i can muster
My head is screaming
My heart unimaginative
Let me out!
Let me go!

My chest heavy
I know not what to do
My vision blurred
no path for my thought

I wish i know
I can only wish!

Toluwalase Adu

Kisses of Rose

With the drops of the mountain dews
Like the flow of the morning spring
The freshness of your mouth fills me now
Memories,sheer memories keep my heart healthy
You are far away
Far from my arms
Away from my touch
Beyond the horizon i look to find you
Now you are back
Always in my dream
bringing the past in my fantasy
Now your voice sounds
Like a distant mountain echoes
Bringing yesterday vividly
That is all is left to behold
Your smile far away I can see
Touching me as i walk
and the smell of your nectar kiss
Last all long in my breath

Tolu O Adu

For Evelyn

Here I am
Here I stand
With my cloudy eyes
With my dripping heart
So long, the days crawl
Much of the owl silence filling the night
I have walked through the desert of Love
With no oasis to give me succour
Under the silvering eyes of the moon
With Darkness tracing my footstep
I am poor
With only my bulging eyes to spare
I am only rich in words
Am wealthy in Affection
Here I lay
Sulking at my rejected Love
With the biting cold
A companion
And my Shattered heart
The only possession

Toluwalase Adu

All I need to give

Like the unending horizon
Like the flickering ocean tongues
My mind in your heart
My heart lives in your passion

I have walked this path before
But not this way
All i need to give
My undenied self
unrestricted affection

Tolu O Adu

Just maybe...

I can wait all night long
Listening to the rhythm of your breath
I am condemned
To watch the Quickness
of your print!
I was told to read the lightning in your eyes
and observe your ethereal voice
drowning the thunder whisper
There in my dream you lay
There in my mind you reside
From then on
I stay to counting your footstep
From my hidding
I captured you esssence
Maybe,
Maybe, One day
I will be back to tell
How u took my mind away
And left me with the shell
Just maybe!

Tolu O Adu

The Cissy's Beat

You can tell me I have woken up
Not to the dispair of my struggles
I have no smell of that
In the ocean i swim yet i was not drowned.
Now I look out here I gaze
To a wealth i have woken up to
You can hear my voice
Across the ripples of the wind
My tho'ts in the gazing light of the morning
Listen to the breath of the breaking dawn
Now i know why the lightning were captured
We only see it once to admire in your eyes
Tell us why the Nightingales renew their
voices
Not in the spectre of the cleansing fluid
But the string of your melodious cords
Tell us the spectacle of the oasis
Tomorrow we may be thirsty
When we wake up admiring this wealth

Toluwalase O Adu

They call You Africa

You were called barren
They see not your seeds
A land of blood
They grew their world in your fluid

The sky cry on you
The sun bathe your sons
The clouds hover around your farms
yet they thought you are hunted!

When there is the time to amuse the visitors
They find u so willing
To greet the aliens
You are asked to report at the village square!

So dark
You were left as a Jungle
The last they want to hear of you
is the death of your womb

Tolu Adu

Unflinching tho'ts

Now the time is here
Now our heart desire
To burn the longing deep in our loins
so much fire, puffing smoke
Heightened passion, expanding lust
Roaring hunger, screaming longing!

A world so real to have
A heaven so wide to possess
such that our ectasy burrows
Up the crescendo of our desires
To please..

Now there is a stream down the fountain crossing deep into you
washing the path to your heart
That speak nothing but my affection
In our highest ectasy
Establishing the tho't we share
Our unspoken passion revealed!

Tolu O Adu

Evelyn

Hear the feet of the sky tears
on the desert sand
The depth of the oasis testifies
prints scattered on the face of the land
Tell me why the gentle cedar looks so strong
Ages have not diminished its strength
So tall, its strength lies in its height
Its reach my mind couldn't hold
Tell me a touch of air so subtle
So quiet the trees wave to its rhythm
So strong relics a heart can't ignore
Tell me once again,How the earth was created
For in the Garden of your world,
Cedar, your strength of character,
Oasis learnt to renew their waters,
Touch of your ethereal voice plays a note
So quiet the trees dance in unison
So strong, it can only be of Angels.

Toluwalase O. Adu