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Holmes
Member since August 31, 2018
Member for 7 years, 9 months
Visions within a dream
I had a vision. In it stood an ovally shaped cave somewhere in the centre of fantasies, away from the peeping sky. We dwelt in the the caverns of our deeds without dress or the burden of knowledge.
You dorsiflexed your legs to the rhythm of the ancient flutes and I was as Onyeneku; the head drummer that commands the muscles of the spirits sprawling in antelope's fitness. Truly all that lived were us in this cave somewhere amid the joys of companionship, away from the turbulent waves of intrusion.
Obianuju, daughter of the moon! My Negress that embodies the spirits of the gypsy horde of the enchantress. I summon you to spend lifetimes with me for with you, every dance of the hour glass is a lifetime of bliss. Come be the firmament of my universe, come make my visions true.
I saw the world peer within our cave and snare. Ignoble ignoramuses! What do they know about the dark mystery of Obianuju? What do they know of the oscillatory heave of her breast or the fluttery sway Of her hips. Her glittering eyes are as the islands of black blood imprisoned by crystals of icy purity. Her poist bore the cause of the maidens of the bights of Fanti, the might of Taitu Betul; the Thiopic lioness. Her touch was Noliwe's soothing bam on Chaka's strained muscles. With a soul as evergreen as the Sapodilla, it is of no wonder that my feet are sprung by the greased stings of her trap.
No Brother! I do not ask to be set free... I'd rather not leave this cave and face the cruelty of artistes staged upon the amphitheatre of deception. I must dwell in the harem of obianuju my negress, in the visions of my dreams and sing of her dark beauty that surpasses the years for eons of minds.
Holmes’s timeline
- August 2023
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31 ThuAnniversary
5 years of membership
- August 2019
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31 SatAnniversary
One year of membership
- September 2018
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28 FriReceived a critique
on Visions within a dream from @themoonman
"Wow, really good. Seems to be a performance piece to be enunciated with flare. One word did throw me: // I saw the world peer within our cave and snare. Ignoble ignoramuses// I thought either the word "snare" to be wron…" -
10 MonPosted a poem
Visions within a dream
"I had a vision. In it stood an ovally shaped cave somewhere in the centre of fantasies, away from the peeping sky. We dwelt in the the caverns of our deeds without dress or the burden of knowledge." -
07 FriReceived a critique
on At Crossroads from @Eumolpus
"some of the images are stunning, some of the language a bit stilted. As people often rewrite others' poem on this site with their take, allow me to give it a try. This is only made for the suggestion, and I find when ot…" -
05 WedReceived a critique
on Spirit of a Negro from @scribbler
"Been a while since I've seen poetic prose. Good to be reminded how good it can be. One question...Who is Porter?............stan" -
04 TueReceived a critique
on At Crossroads from @IRiz
""sharp stumps of the mocking earth" I love these words i would take out distant horizons it is a great poem, i love it i have a question about this line " the abrupt end of his expressions" i am not sure what you mean t…" -
03 MonPosted a poem
At Crossroads
"Meet me at the center of my dream, at the juxtaposition of time and moment, at the confluence point of my endeavours." -
02 SunPosted a poem
Spirit of a Negro
"It is the origin and hope of a thousand children. Tis the love that transforms young seedlings to plants. Its breath canvasses the woods of the Zaire o'er the hills of Zimbabwe down to the lowlands of the Mozambique. It is the great tide that accompanies the Nile to kiss our cheeks at first light. Tis the stars that glitter when the sun slumbers in celestial furlough. Tis the bravery that enveloped the hearts of our forbearers. It is the burning lamp at the towerwatch of the Zanzibar. The courage to walk the dark places in mythical lore. It is the strength that flows in Simba's pride. Tis the tongue of the Phoenix; the screams at slaver's bay. Tis the blistered feet of enslaved athletes at the diamond mines of sierra Leone. Tis the very thread that weaves us in the roots of originality. It is the bowl that feeds all with kindness, the souls of a million bound in Porter's fellowship. Tis the spirit of a Negro" - August 2018
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31 FriReceived a critique
on Everyone Dies In Their Nightmare from @Eumolpus
"The prose poem is so all over the place I could not get anything coherent from it. This type of work (prose poems are the least popular form of "poetry") has no place for the reader to breathe. Pilling image after image…" -
31 FriFirst publication
Everyone Dies In Their Nightmare
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31 FriPosted a poem
Everyone Dies In Their Nightmare
"My eyes close in defeat to hormonal brawl, I am clothed in senile shawl as my lungs gave breath to sound proof sizzles of a bear. In a misguided drift from consciousness, I dissolve as smoke in an unconscious saunter. I have wandered aloft, I am strangely lucid then corded to a time machine, like a tossed coin there is a reversible swap in equilibrium. Recurent visions of events take me; some of which have been and others yet to meet the seer's light hence a premonition of sorts" -
31 FriJoined Neopoet
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First poem published 1 days later.
About Me
Location: Nigeria
Edgar Allan Poe
William Raleigh
Leopold Sedar Senghor
Wale Soyinka
Recent Work
Visions within a dream
At Crossroads
Spirit of a Negro
Everyone Dies In Their Nightmare
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