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love poems to english
1
English is the pride in my abject saliva
That flows to my African persona
And cleanses the tongue of its insecurities
Then inflates it with the authority of eloquence
English is the diction of raw love
Whose lyrical notes are lovebirds thereof
In the excited phase of singing love songs
While sensual English pierces to her soul
English is the queen of my heart
And my heart is fertile like Aladdin’s mat
Ready to explore the width of the lexicon
To express my thought according to the dictionaries capacity
English is the mother tongue of novelty
Whose alphabets are arranged to exquisite mastery?
And so i hope to teach my ink laureate writings
That is inscribed on my soul’s tablets
2
There is no expression to surpass English it-self
As one of the multitude books stuck in the shelf
But every minute countless of books are being written
And remain unwritten to the hearts composition
There is no language to beat such beauty
And the tongue is not being given a cumber duty
But it’s sliding smoothly out the parting lips
As gentle waters flowing through a brook
There is a fount of where the water flows through
And when i sit by my favorite bough
Observing the source of pure spoken English
I become the master of the English craft
Now, my thoughts have all freedom, no cage
They might change into a dreaded rage
Or remain as temperamental as the clouds
But sure i feel rudy expressing my feelings
3
The world is such a tarnishing silver
And rather than opt as a non believer
I believe in the religion of pure poetry
That calms the heart by composing a song
Songs can be found in the well or waters
And it’s more lasting than things that glitters
But stamping your authority with an ink
Is the link between the dead and his name?
So what is this frail hand awaiting?
When the distance of the journey is gaping
And soon my brain is washed of all this English
Then my mouth is coy to speak in pride
Then the English that is heard is graveyard English,
Death, the pall, the shroud, the coffin, the cemetery
The mourning cavalcade, the epitaph, the ashes rite
The forgotten memoir, the abandoned remembrance of your title
4
English is the humility and pride of perspective
That makes a proud man speak abusive
But cushions a wise mans words as a lullaby
That sings the foaming dragon to sleep
English is the balance of a square table
As that of the chips on a pool table
And that man speaking dangerously with words
Shall succeed to gamble the negotiation back and forth
So he who is speaking is swaying someone
And whose words as a tap have begun to run
Must be doing so to deceive your intelligence
By coating his lips with sugar and honey
Then he who is writing his daily affairs
Of his sweat, his turmoil, and his fears
Should at least be given an attention of ears
As he speaks that which bubbles his conscience
5
English is the fragrance of my mouths breath
And whose live giving is a refreshing health
For he who speaks more years to his age,
Or he who crucifies his affairs with his words
English is the measure of loves expression
And the width that equates passion
So there are no limits to the presumed borders
As the world is small but still its size is insurmountable
English is the modernization of the civil age
English is a lost and unfound poetry page
That if its lyrics are shared by all men
There will be no cause for sweat or blood
English is the fame of a mans life account
If he can speak his mind without having to daunt
Then he can become a loyal laureate
That wrote English books from his thought
6
English was dragged to our motherland
From the port shores of Sunderland
To the transformation of our illiterate clan
And now we all crave fair education
I can never regret completely colonialism
But i regret in extreme fascism and racism
To he that brought English to our huts
Is forgiven for the pain that he brought
I thank the table that gathered English to a language
From where it spreads to all our lesser linage
And the pauper now too can learn
From the English expressions of his own heart
English now is joint with our native dialect
And together they flow like gentle rivulets
For English is the language of peaceful men
That negotiate free, and fair, and flattery
7
Mere English brings out the legend in a man
When he is writing mythology with his hands
He is only using English to express his expressions
But English is by far the greatest expression
Men have tried to explore the use of English
And they have ended as bards distinguished
As men that shall die buried with novels
And who thought further than the suns distance
Men that construct the fables and folklore
Are men whose minds are wild and exploring
Not someone that contains his thought in a shell
Because he is fretting his thoughts will be loose
Men have produced English excitements
By what they have written in installments
And when the final book is written by an author
He writes his epitaph to the tale of life
8
If i can share with you all the words
That my slow hands cannot afford
To write all the poetry that lays in my heart
But a few are salvaged from my soul
If i could jot down everything i assume
Then my books will continue to be consumed
By the pregnant ink due to conceive
Myriad ballads that i personify into mythology
English is the language of God
Words are more deer than gold
For what is written in your heart
Has a channeled path to your tongue
Therefore i search for sheer pleasure
And utilize every task of leisure
That yet is an easy kind of work
Having to configure the truth in your own way
9
When I’m wondering why i love English so
And why ordinary words are escaping to the soul
There is no clean explanation for passion
It’s just an uprising from the test of time
Come there seasons of snow and winter
Come here by this burning log, come thither
Let words heat up an igniting spark
To cause warmth from its fortitude
Come there rain that washes away name
And scatters them in repulsion to fame
Let all the toilers have no fret of this
For the drop of their sweat is germinating barrenness
Let English coat and polish me with pride
Let me not be coy as a blushing bride
But let me stand before the queen and the king
Having the depth of my heart to proudly speak
10
Let English not fade like lowering sunset
Let it rise like the morn in Tibet
Where the truth rises in the east
And pacifies beyond the western hemisphere
Let the light of truthful English
Upset the eyes of the foolish
And teach him the truth with words
That rises boldly like the surging morning sun
Let not the darkness of corrupt languages
Turn us into radicals and savages
But let us speak the English of assurance
Whose voices are meeker than a humble man
Let us not fear the horrors of darkness
Or feel the conviction of self-righteousness
But all men should speak by the justification
That he is a sinner by birth and rite
11
English is the dictator of the world’s currencies
For he who sings with more melody
Compels the crowd to dance to his strings
While he might never listen to his own lyrics
English is void like when the earth was made
And the world is like a comely maid
Whose heart is taken by the eloquent man
Who has composed that void-ness into sound songs
English is the centre of all interactions
That bonds tighter, and secures relations
Thereby we can feel love and trust
Because a true friend speaks straight to the soul
English is by the means i come to you
Giving the cow grass for him to chew
But such big teeth can eat only grass
While the cork without teeth can eat much more
12
English is the spring of the purest lingua
Flowing through our lips as a seductive singer
That entices the ear to listen
To the sounding gush of the gliding river
English is the first of all mothers
And the first of all my lovers
For the time i spend seeking English
Nothing eats deeper more into my time
English is a door-knob wanting twist
And this could be my greatest hearts wish
That all men learn the syllables of English
And study deeply the conjunction of its construction
When the door-knob of English is twisted
There in that room is a place sacred
Where great novelists and bards have trespassed
And found that the inspiration room is a concentrated sepulcher
13
English is an antidote that soothes a writing wound
And some people are like a brainwashed foetus mound
Whose umbilical cord connection to the mother is English
For words join the soul to the mere flesh
There are some words longer than a rope
Then holding that rope you can grope
Being led into the life of another man
Because his words have revealed his wretched life
English is the forbidden apple i hand to you
And English can be the last supper grail too
But its Decense is in the tongue of a man
Having being empowered the authority to make or brake
I shall rebuild things with mere English
And write the doom back to bliss
For once everything was as pure as English
But now things are rotten like a corrupt tongue
14
When some people claim of only words
You might think it’s rather absurd
That a king should be compared with a pauper
But what if the pauper has meaningful words?
Then with those words he can sing to that king
And fire him with a tranquilized sling
That shall make his words as soft as oil
And he shall sing that king a peaceful sleep-song
Now he conforms that king to his allie
He has done this only with the power of words
And by this i play gently to a feared king
Who has conquered all the territories of the west
Listen you king to pauper English, as i sing
Let me serenade your eardrums with impoverished tales
And let English join the rich and the wretched
Because they are speaking one beautiful language
Critiques
Orphani
16 years 9 months ago
in answer to" in celibration"
Orphani
16 years 9 months ago
awakening