A PATH THAT WINDS IN TO THE CLOUDS

Oko, labe igi oronbo
A path that winds into the clouds
In loving memory of broken cisterns that squirt.
The very moan of trees
Rises to ninth heaven in praise,
Of the cat that died
Dousing the rampaging fire running in your tap

ABUJA (6)

Abuja, I need a call to the heart; 

Touch me with thy whisper; 

Cringe my skin with thy touch

ABUJA (5)

Abuja, thou has forsaken me;

Left, lorn, love lost, longing;

Amidst infidelity that overcrowds

ABUJA (3)

I'm in love with Abuja;

Her love strikes me with lightning bolt;

She kills me with wont!

MARKETPLACE

There's a thriving marketplace
When insomnia comes to Owls, to Ravens
Aminu Kano, Adetokunbo Ademola, crescents of Ahmadu Bello

DON'T LOVE ME SWEET

Don't love me sweet

My heart's deep and wide

You can never fill it

Don't love me sweet

My heart's given up

To maternal love, surreal

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Don't love me sweet

My heart's too broken

Your love can't mend it

Don't love me sweet

My heart's not for one

Yours' a loosing fight

Don't love me sweet

My heart's dead

Immortality reigns here

Don't love me sweet

My heart's given up to hell

You love but a bestial

Don't love me sweet

My heart's too selective

You don't fit the profile

Don't love me sweet

My heart's in need of reality

You, but a dream

Word Eaters

Be kind with words, mildly eat

Not with oil of the furnace's fury

For then, the tongue shall burn sore

Neither from cold's slumber, dab

It's sludge would give you away

But in thought and gentle caress

Eat them, well cooked

JAWS

Aw, with this weather?
Let the bombs rain
Warmth come forth for
Those without a blanket
Merry where the cisterns leak
They will hug calabashes
And gamble away sanity
Like Zacheus, of Jenta Mangoro
They pay the taxman of spirits
And kill the fake heart within
Those without a heart fall
Within Jaws the city from chaos
Where anyone with some cash
Gets to thrust at Jaws
Sensitive mandibles between legs
There it burns the most
The rampaging fire in his tap
Seeking to be doused