Native War
Beat your butterfly
wings on the
leaves of my heart,
and suck sweet sun lights
that bend their rays
in mornings of luscious delights.
* * *
eyes wild-opened
to gaze
suspicious
on
new dreams from fresh
moans of
nearby brooks,
many scriptures are
written
in love's pining wings,
and
when
the
lights
of
grace
spread effulgence from
your
delightful gospel,
rash ruptures
that greeted
former scions of
thoughts
are banished forever in the heart.
* * *
I see innocence
where darkness
loomed,
beauty
in labyrinths of voices
and prosaic forms,
where
love,
long withered of warmth,
long
separated
from
true spirits
of the
moment,
reconnects.
I
see
joy
renewed
and canvas immaculate
spreads, inviting my
long
suffering
brush to caress
a love long longed for.
* * *
after looking
into
many a
beauty's
face,
many a
mirror where
shimmers wooed
night
calls of shuddering
embraces, a prodigal
mien swept
clean toxins of
former ways,
toxins
that separate
scions of saplings
which
grew
in
concerts of common roots.
Your babblings
seared
like
hot knife through butter,
carry the
burning
flames
of ancestry,
and remembering
the throbs,
the drumbeats of spirits
calling
the many sons of the soil
to
the splendid squares
of former days of love.
* * *
native aroma greets the
dawns
of
delight,
native strength resumes her place
where
alien
concoctions
had once a monarch assumed.
sleep
slipped
silently
slowly
stretching
sound
currents
carrying
curative
compass
to
the
heart, but now when I
hear
your
steps
mingle
with
the
voice
of
dawn
I
look
with
shame
on the
past, wasted past.
Poet, dramatist and author, Martins Iyoboyi was born in Nigeria. His published poems have been published by Zone, Bending Spoons, Flask Review, 63 Channels, International Zeitschift, Contemporary Rhyme, Munyori Poetry Journal, Rhythm, Tenemos, MotherVerse, Poetry Cemetery, Boyne Writers Group, Chiron Review, The New Verse News, Collective Fallout, and Hat.
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