BROKEN PRIDE

I'm nothing more than I am
And less than the beauty you see
I've been robbed of my pride
My honey pot is broken
By the rod of a stranger

Someone help me for i'm a broken clay pot
my wrapper has fallen in the market square
Help me for I do not know where to run to
My world is collapsed in the day light
It's wall is crumbled before my very own eyes

Someone please tell my mother that
My beads have fallen into pieces
The waist beads which stand for dignity
Have been taken from me
And never will be returned

Someone please tell my father that
My breast have been drained of it sweetness
Both have been doused by corrupt lips
And would never produce holy milk
For melons of vinegar is all I have left

Someone please tell my husband to-be
I'm nothing more than I am
And less than the beauty he seeks
Beneath that white veil
Is a shredded beauty

Which glitters with broken smile
Not more than a sear rose
Covered with broken thorns as beauty
Please take me and hold my frail heart with love
For I am a woman with a broken pride.

(c) STANLEY OGUH

QUEEN MEDESE OF THE EAST

Queen of all gentleness, Lady of all calm,
Whose voice is contentment, whose presence is balm.
Be there in my night, be there in my day,
Your ambiance I seek, your presence I pray.

Queen of all sweetness, effigy of all joy,
Your voice is my bliss, no doubt could destroy.
Be there at my thought, prowl through my mind,
Your love I seek, your heart I want to find.

Queen of all beauty, queen of all maiden,
Whose smile ease and heaves heavy burden.
Grant me strength, I seek for waxed synergy,
And kindling my heart that burns for thee.

Queen of all tenderness, lady of perpetual grace,
Your arms are skilled, eloquent of sweet embrace.
Be there at my homing, this I pray,
Your warmth I crave, at the end of the day.

Queen Medese of the East, Lady of all majesty,
Whose grace humbles kings and hurls dynasty.
Be my lady, for am void of a queen,
The sparkle of your love I seek, be my shine within.

AJIKE

You are not ENIBIOKANMI but ENIOKANMI
Ajike I breath you in and out
As you've become my air
Many are the maidens around
But It's you who have become my heartbeat
The FUJI music my soul dance to
There are so many birds in the sky
But you are the OKIN; the most beautiful of them all
I was at oja IDARA when I first saw you
When your beauty caught my eyes
Your smile that day AJIKE
Robbed me of my sanity armour
I fell so deep in love with you
That I found you wandering the garden of my heart
When I saw you at ODO-ADO the other day
And saw how she wet your pretty face
I thought you were YEYE herself
In the rain yesterday I saw the rain drops
As they ran from your SHUKU
Down from your bosom to your gorgeous feet
And I saw how the earth adores each water drop
That drips from your beautiful attire
There is something special about you AJIKE
That ignite this flame of love inside of me
Could it be your smile?
Cos it sweetness beaconed on me
Could it be your endowment?
That which could not be hidden in a wrapper
Could it be your presence?
That makes the sky barren
And the wind lame in your absence
I think you are among the ORISA
That escorted OLODUMARE to IKOLE AIYE
No wonder your body likens that of a goddess
Far more gorgeous than YEYE OSUN
AJIKE I've drank the love potion in your eyes
I must be filled to the brim
No herb can cure me of this sickness
The ALAWO tried and yet failed
Your love has imprisoned me
I don't want to be set free
So when you see me AJIKE
When next we cross path
Know that this poet has fallen for you
From the tallest IROKO to the deepest river.
Stan has fallen for you.
#PoemByStan #ProudlyNigerian #EverGallantAfrican

DEAREST INAMORATA

Your beauty needs no enhancer nor bronzer
 You are adorable in a most profound way
As a sheen amidst seas of beauties
You glide my thought in a continuous circuit
My love, your smile is a glitter
It gives me fever
Yet it's my quickest fix and cure
My dearest inamorata
I deem of you in my widest thoughts
On each your beauty is engraved
You've got my heart burning
Earnestly inflamed for you
As the air I breath
I desire you infinitely
As the joy I seek
I long for you earnestly
You are a shooting star I wished upon
A twinkle little star
I gaze the skies in search for
Hoped you would one day fall
And so you did fall
You fell into the solace of my heart
From high altitudes,You fell With grace
And glees My heart with bliss
Beyond what was and what is
Beyond the curtain of our time
Beyond my dreams and expectations
My heart glees of bliss you bring
you’re my obsess and my favourite weakness
I find strength and synergy with you
In my book, you are the paragraph and only chapter
My score, against the pundit’s odds
My sure bet when the stakes are down
You are the apple of my eyes, the marble of my soul
A pleasant flower in my heart's garden
your nectar beacons on me, rich in sugar and honey
If your love chokes, and I’m asthmatic
Your dust, I shall inhale willingly
Loving you is an accomplished crime
I so wished to be jailed for.

BROKEN

My pen inks in pain with flows of rhythm in my syllables,
ink of emotions spills across my book; searching for miracles.
Our love transcend visibly in a prism wherein our emotions are true,
A perfect economy of true love so impossible to construe.
Here I am thinking of the life we lived and the memories we shared,
The sparks of emotions we created; how much we cared.
Sounds of the bliss and whispers of our love that could be heard,
In our quite moment of affections it was just you and i not a third.
our love could be felt descending from the skies we were under,
Never was there an iota of fear; not a thing to bother.
Our love could travel the world and split the heavens cover,
And this feeling we had was more than all of earths wonder.
I had you in my heart whispering to my soul,
And when you're not with me i'm never in one whole.
When I'm around you I can even hear the stars speak,
Confessing how our love humbles the heavens making it weak.
You were all I had thought in life and in my dream,
And I had felt this perfection that could only be found in heaven's realm.
But life happened and destroyed it all,
Can you hear my heart splitting as it fall?.
Each is a fragment that bleeds of my undying love for you,
Despite how real it is, this love wasn't good enough for you.
No matter how much I try; you will forever be a part of me,
Even though this love is defied and never meant to be.
I was blind; now I understand the expression that love isn't always right.
And breaking everything that I was; can you sleep with a smile at night?
Broken by fate; I shed my tears every night when I cry,
But you live happily like there's a new rainbow in the skies.

THE VOW TO "Ajike" THE BRIDE

There aren't enough stars in the east,
To show number of times my heart beats for you.
There aren't enough desert in the north,
To show how far i'd really go for you.
There aren't enough depth in the lagoon,
To tell you Ajike,how deep my feelings run for you.
Ajike,I'd sail across the niger's,
Climb to the apex of the olumo,
Walk through the lush vegetation of the siambisa,
If that's what it takes to spend eternity with you.
You know,If words could fall like rain,
Form this lyrics of mine.
I will use all the words the earth could gather,
 To tell you, you are the goddess even YEYE could not match.
You are not just the Queen of Maidens,
But the Queen of the Queens who had grace and will ever grace the earth.
From the hills to the valleys of our land,
Comes you Ajike; the source of my joy.
The single reason my hearts river never runs dry,
It's your smile that comes with hope whose shine cannot be faded.
I was lost, when the waves of your love found me,
It carried me like whirlwind,
And brought me to this moment we are.
Your love is that which set me free,
And made your heart the hamlet I call home.
Ajike, am lost in this lush vegetation of your heart,
So deep that I can't here the hunter’s trumpet.
i've gone astray in your thoughts,
For unto you is all that I bear.
I speak this few words of mine,
Hiss flowing just like the stream at Odo-Ado,
To let you know that in you and only you,
This imperfect poet finds perfection.
To let you know that its you and only with you,
This poet wants to spend forever with.
Making beautiful babes that would portray the image of our love,
For as I pledge my love to you,
Before the most gracious eyes of Olodumare.
Through this holy vow,
I promise to remember always,
Never to defy this love I feel for you this moment.
Never to exist any dew after the rain of this love,
Not for another maiden on this earth.
I vow to love and cherish you,
And never to leave you,
Not in sickness; not even in death.
 when life happens; when this journey of love gets tough,
I will be strong for you; like the zuma rock,
Here and here after; Today and tomorrow,
For this love we share is forever; always it has been and always it will be.

THE VOW

There aren't enough stars in the sky,
To show number of times my heart beats for you.
There aren't enough depth in the universe,
To show how far I'd really go for you.
I'd give to my last breath,
Just to spend eternity with you.
If possible,I would die a thousand times,
If that's what it takes to be with you.
You know,If words could fall like rain,
Form this lyrics of mine.
I will use all the words the earth could gather,
 To tell you how special u are to me,
if only Shakespeare was around,
To make you know Romeo could never have felt for Juliet,
What this poet feels for you.
If eternity lies in my hands,
I would still run out of time.
To tell you how much I love you,
To make you know how much I need you.
Just as Adam could never be complete without Eve,
This poet will never be complete without you.
Just like salt is useless without its taste,
And the dark sky loses its glitter without the stars
My whole life loses its meaning without you
To know in you and only you,
This imperfect poet finds perfection.
To know with you and only with you,
This Adam wants to spend forever with.
Finding synergy and strength,
To dream,to breath,to live and to finding a life of purpose.
As we stand here today,
I see in many ways love can be perfect.
For as I pledge my love to you,
Before our most generous God.
Through this holy vow,
I promise to remember always,
Never to defy this love I feel for you this moment.
Never forget to always cherish you with tenderness,
And when life happens,my patience will never run dry,
Today,tomorrow and forever.