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Big Shout Out To My Father

Daddy you have been everything to me,

Right from birth, you have nurtured me,

Paid my school fees, clothed me, struggled to give me the best life.

There were times you couldn’t buy new clothes for yourself,

Instead you bought for me.

You couldn’t eat three square meals daily,

You ensured that I did.

You gave me the greatest gift no one in existence can ever give me.

You have thought me the importance of family,

You explained to me the gift of love and sharing,

You exposed to me the secrets behind success.

You are definitely -the-one. ‘I Love You’

Thank you Daddy.

 

Happy Father’s Day to all the Fathers in the world!

I would Eat Popcorn for Poetic Pastures

I would eat popcorn for poetic pastures,

Inspiring for poet’s finest thought,

Smiting a puff up heated word-web of senses;

For my thought to live in tunes.

To which I popped-up poetic licences,

Solemnizing words unseen being nearer brought.

 

It’s grooviness popped-up words unwritten,

I mouthfully chewed; creating an insightful leisure

Of poetic-catharsis, with crimson literature,

That without cornfield prairies comes a poetic drought.

 

My popcorn brings me a quietude chair,

Where poet-inspiration will sit in;

When it mused soundless words in the air,

Rhymed and ballad; as the pop is melting.

Brings the words close to the poet inspiring.

 

I walked popping corn in the linear hedges,

Singing by the colourful lilies edges;

Popcorn in my mouth turning sadness into good,

While I chewed the last pop beneath my blanket,

To which I prayed; popcorn be my thought-food.

This was written and sent to me by my friend Jubril Gulani. If you are reading this, I want you to know that I wish you all the best.