Monday, March 20, 2017

OF GREY HAIRS & MISSING SHAFTS

Grey hair inhabited that cramped space alone,
Begging every passerby for nickel and dime.
It wanted only but a dye,
It wanted to turn dark from white.

They wondered,  I wondered,
Where lies grey hair's shaft?
Why can't grey hair turn dark from its shaft?
Why from grey hair its shafts does hide?
Surely every grey hair has a shaft?
Lest it die a lonely whitish grey hair.

But alas! Grey hair did die lonely and whitish,
Inhabiting its lonely confinement.
Its demise birthed myriads of shafts,
All the shafts it needed to stay dark,
And murder isolation.

They drove in in droves,
They came with drums of dyes,
All shade of dyes
For grey hair who has died.
They've infested gray hairs' abode,
If only they were around to keep it dark,
If only they came earlier to murder loneliness.

Copyright Samuel De Poet, March 20, 2017.
PHOTO CREDIT: monoimages.com

Wednesday, August 17, 2016

Sunday, July 24, 2016

POLITRICKS & POLITICS

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Politrickcians, Polithiefcians
One and same
Only change in names.

Ever seen a politrickcian
who isn't a polithiefcian?
One and same,
Only change in names.

Dictators in 'Agbada'
Men once in green, in camouflage
Are they not whom we recycle?
Year in, year out?
Are they not politrickcians? Polithiefcians?

Ever seen a politrickcian
Who isn't a polithiefcian?
One and same,
Only change in names.

Is black white?
Or white black?
So why to us they sell this lies?
Are they not tricksters, trick stars?

Ever seen a politrickcian
Who isn't a polithiefcian?
One and same,
Only change in names.

#Pen_Wielder

#SamDePoet

@Iam_SamDePoet

Monday, June 6, 2016

BOOKWORMS


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Look at her, she's buried in it again,
She'll be on that book feasting,
Try prying her from it,
She'll be on your face fisting.

Bookworms, what can you do with them?
You can't chew them, you can't spit them out!

Agatha! Won't you look up?
Can't you see over your head?
Don't you know you're socially dead?
Why looking up from that page you dread?

Bookworms, what can you do with them?
You can't chew them, you can't spit them out!

 For you they're all pinning,
But to that book you're literally pinned in.
Miss 'Jackerholic' workaholic,
Why pass through citadel learning?
Can't citadel pass through you? learning?

Bookworms, what can you do with them?
You can't chew them, you can't spit them out!

 Why are you locked in?
 Wouldn't you rather be out exploring?
 Aren't you tired of life so boring?
 Why don't you go out, stop this dulling.

Bookworms, what can you do with them?
You can't chew them, you can't spit them out!
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Thursday, February 11, 2016

THEATRICAL

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Mothers strained and drained 
New borns crying unbridled 

Butterflies flapping wings
Fire flies lighting nights 

Bees humming sounds 
Birds chipping melodies 

Swans swimming streams 
Lovers dreaming dreams 

Wildcats preying on preys 
Hyenas laughing away 

Beers sleeping in caves 
Dogs mating with mates 

Bantams securing territories 
Orang-utan leaping on trees 

Mother hens cooing chicks 
Hungry hawks swooping on chicks 

Goats bleating with ease 
Mother's kissing their kids 

Sun setting, night coming 
Curtains closing, acts ending

Wednesday, January 27, 2016

INDECISION



Caught in two seas,
Betwixt two beauties
More I look,
Less I see.

Her or her?
She or She?

Eeny, meeny, miny, moe.

Under a tree,
With two fruits,
Both are ripe,
Which do I pluck?

Her or her?
She or She?

Eeny, meeny, miny, moe.

She blows my mind,
But she does too.
Who to choose,
I've got no clue.

Her or her?
She or She?

Eeny, meeny, miny, moe.

Is she right? Is she wrong?
These two,
Are they best?
Outta these throng?

Her or her?
She or She?

 Eeny, meeny, miny, moe.

 Caught in seas,
 Stuck in roads,
 Lost in junctions,
 At beauty's juncture.

 Her or her?
 She or she?

 Eeny, meeny, miny, moe.

 Don't know right,
 Can tell wrong,
 Where do I turn?
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  Right? Left? 
  Left? Right?

  Her or her?
  She or She?

 Eeny, meeny, miny, moe.