Saturday 30 June 2012

A poem: The Exile’s Lover


It is the night we beg for dawn to break that
we live the realities of hell the most—all becomes false.

And as this garden of hell burns truth into cinders,
so much to rehearse sombreness in us,
while we eat berries of lust as loins bite at dusk, wishing
the morning is a new testament.

Today, I watch the future sneak
out from borders of dusk’s aperture,
trusting nature to solve the riddles of lightning
into crashing shimmers across the skies.

It is raining paints, but the soils of the son—vendors of this land
can only paint as much as nature’s colours allow,
he sketches out things imagined from deprived realities,
long before the warmth of a land’s embrace will come.

Today, I am the lover: a sea of strayed riddles
settled in shuttling latitudes of liquid and sleepless nights.
I wonder if this is that middle season, that time of ends,
when I should betroth hope as an even better partner.
                               
So like the riddle of the soil in the veins of leaves;
culinarily delivered as vegetable into willing mouths,                                                                                 
the riddle of the berry is solved on this lover’s eyelids.
Waiting for the night to call the day to function,
it is with blinking wet lashes I stake claim to land,
I’ve found rainbows are in human tears; the sun is in the soul.

(c) Jumoke Verissimo 2012

1 comment:

  1. Anonymous7:25:00 am

    I ALWAYS FIND YOUR MARBLES, YOU DO NOT WRITE POETRY, YOU CAST POETRY, YEAH, I ALWAYS FIND YOUR MARBLES MARVELLOUS, MIND BOGGLING, MIND BLOWING, MIRACULOUS.....

    UMAR SIDI

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