THREE POEMS
By David Ishaya Osu
Saturday, January 7, 2012.
JUNCTION OF FOES III
I
Dressed in greens
A bushy harvest perfumed with a fragrant morn
They danced to choruses
Sung by heavy canaries
With its wintry smile
A sun invaded into their camp
Racking their whistling mirth
II
In shawls of soothing dews
We were wrapped
Yet that fiendish sun
With its brutal rays raided
Shriveling our charming mien
III
Their fertilized wombs
Though patched with estranged oases
Today
Bursts with thumping edenity
HOW?
How drunk was the night
That it coughed spells
At the wake of your bud
How drunk were you
That the neonate suffocated in its cradle
How…?
ON THIS HILL
Red streaks encompassed her locks
Fainted the blueness of her smile
On this hill
We bled to soothe blisters
Swathing our beds
Fumes from carcasses yet
Terrored pulses of our horn
Canoeing to ressurect bulwarks
David Ishaya Osu is a Nigerian journalist, writer and poet. His creative writing have appeared in several publications and he won a Honourable Mention for a National Poetry competition in honour of Prof Remi Raji at 50. Osu who was born in 1991 is currently a student at the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Federal University of Technology Minna, Niger State, Nigeria.
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