Blazing Hot (Issue 3)
Arewa by Kolade Olanrewaju Freedom
Arewa,
your beauty is a blade cutting deep into
the fleshiness of my muse, to draw blood
plastering crispy papers with fine layers of
words refined in the industry of infatuation.
Arewa,
your beauty is the departing sun
radiating its elegance through waters
basking in the calmness of the young night
unworried by alarming approach of darkness.
Arewa,
your beauty is a poet versifying moments spent
under the shade of a tree, under endless canopies
of skies deserted by stars because you were
the star for the night – the supreme beauty.
Arewa,
your beauty exists on the glossiness
of a paper traced with impatient hands
held captive by locks whose keys are kept
in the safe of your candid eyes…
Arewa,
your beauty is an inhaler to my asthmatic needs,
a pore space on my tongue sinking prodigious
wants into the abyss of contentment. Your beauty
is a restaurant where admiration freely dines…
Arewa,
your beauty is a creaking bed suffering
under the weight of a thousand admirers
tossing coin-like desires within confines
of a heart pleading for a victorious head.
Arewa,
your beauty is an ointment flowing
from the base of your brain
to the base of your fleeting feet. Your beauty
is a creation of the seventh day.
Kolade Olanrewaju Freedom is the editor of PIN Quarterly Journal and Moderator of Eriata Annual Food Poetry Contest. He has authored two poetry collections entitled The Light Bearer and Punctured Silence.
the last place you touched by Stanley Princewill McDaniels
.
the holes in my heart
are your legacies
of what was and
what ought not
so,
i found
home in dark
places, i search for
happiness in drops of electric tears,
i search for happiness
in broken benches,
piles of memories
to burn
till my heart becomes
a castle without doors
and you become a tale
of civil war
I Want To Believe II by Stanley Princewill McDaniels
.
you fit into my heart
like a glove
so our togetherness becomes
a myth
ingested by children and the ages
.
your face is filled with secret doors
keeping secrets from each other:
.
your
lips, your
chin, your cheeks,
your brows, your eyes,
your soul
are celestial places
and every smile is a home
beyond the heavens
Stanley Princewill McDaniels is a Nigerian poet, realist and a 2016 Ebedi Residency fellow. His works of poetry have appeared on several literary outfits including Brittlepaper, Tuck Magazine, the Kalahari Review, Deep Water Literary Journal amongst others.