My Poetry Diary

I will sleep now and day-walk among the stars, The only two giant lights at two arms apart, One dwell within here and the other at mars, This is the field of Gaffy where heaven attracts, Within its wildness lies the gorse and rose alike; Where its fragrance makes the frail becomes golden at heart; Two thousand years will I walk this field astride, And dwell within its plain and mystical path, I will traverse here a day before forever, From its aperture will I watch the sun rise, On this field no anguish, shame, whatsoever; At its gate shall we make the final byes; I will sleep now and make symphony with the wind, Amidst the softness of the grass and trees, While the birds, the beasts and the cricket sings, On this field I am eternally free. Gafar Odubote, “Field of Gaffy”, copyright 2018

Just another day, Night has come, Verily soon I lay,   The day has gone;   But seems am lost,   Mind is hollow,   After this, is dust,   Hard to swallow. Just another circle,   The day is old The silence tackles,   Strange and cold,   The dark knocks,   Spreading his tentacles   What a fear, it shocks   An unsavoury spectacles, Just another night,   O' what a view,   How dark it might   When at its darkest hue,   Rustling and windy,   The unseen stalks,   Emptying and chilly   As the shadow walks, I will trail this path,   Just once, no other,   O' save me from thy wrath,   I shouted, just only mutter. I shed away every shade of darkness, Binding me to its shackles, I illuminate my shadows with light, Within my sight, every touch sparkles. “Strange Path by Olorunleke Odubote”

One more night with thou I will sail, O' Pirate of the land and water; We will sail Through the dark like a whale, Thou that regenerates like an Immortal. Thy reign resonates through the deep, Where thou made abode thy ancient keep, O' Sailor of the far and near, Thy sickles through the ripples it reap, A sage whose foot unroofed the pier  Thou that feast among the beasts, Where can we found thee master of the sea? Amidst war thy valour like inferno we've seen. Captain of the wind, O' the sea god, Thou himself the turbulence and the quake, Thou that ride the sea like the olden Lord, Who can then hold their ships from thy take? The goddess wantonly at thy bequeathed seat, When the sea is like a ground to thy feet; One  more night with thou I will sail, And traverse the world as thy seer, The emblem of skull over bones we hail Till the sea return to its sanity from fear, We shall stir our oars as virile horse; As...

I was a lone wolf of a decent breed, Without the park, I denied my hunting creed; After the shadows of the goddess of my dreams, Wantonly charmed by her daunting streams. A glimpse was all I saw; When thou laid nestling by the shore; Thy voice charmed me to a softly fall, Beyond this shadow I pray for more; Show me the entrance to thy abode; Let thy petals to my touch unfold, I will honour thy bids as divine duty; O'ye the embodiment of beauty, Even if it's for a thousand years, let it be; Let thy immortality entangle me; I will set the course to thy sanctuary, Where thy awesomeness deeply rooted naturally, I plunged ahead on this uncharted course, I swam deeply through her terrestrial cores; Pleasure, hatred - Still I chanted along, Those names I learnt from an aging song. By thy shore, I will wait, But not so long to be late; Till thy shadows become real, Unfettered to thy spell-bound seal. Poem: “Godde...