Adeoye Adetoba Poems

Scarlet Women!
You've turned my soul crimson.
My eyes bloodshot
My heart aflamed with red fire
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They filled their seats fitted not like coffins,
As the bird, with age perched on its wings,
Prepared for the sky.
Into the dark of the night it soared
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The dog trod the path
Towards the den.
The hunter sounded his whistle
Towards the dog.
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The lipstick roll of thick red colour
Concealed the lips infested.
Lips blackened;
Not from the smoke of nicotine
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When i grow up,
I'm going to steal in billions
Of dollars, nairas and pounds.
When i grow up,
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Give them religion,
Never make it one but diverse.
Wield the sharpest of blades
Into the receptive hands of the faithful;
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Her birth was not heralded with merriments.
Her crime was the form she appeared;
An unanswered prayer
Seen as a mere consolation.
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Men and animals eat vegetables of varieties.
I'm a thistle meant not for their plates
And palates. I'm a toad whose meat
Is never found in the pool of an egusi soup.
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Jezebel with the gentle voice
Shattering my head with noise.
The glow on her skin the eye sees
The squalor of her mind concealed with ease.
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Drums made taut with human skins,
Trumpets carved hollow from human bones
Paraded valiantry unto the crust
Watered with the blood of the vanquished.
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