IMAGO

this is between me against the mirror;
the conflicts and the constraints,
the truth and the dare do or don’t.
will i say i become an adult today,
who watches the Cuppy woman flaunting wealth
from the hard-work, restricted by my
mental pull of a hatch
if i could just propel my brightly dark wings,
leaving arms and legs on the stem of a blue ivy
who nurtured me with the nectar, secreted
after my world had been hatched to larva
till now. this image is a freak,
i am the world itself in a mirror, lifeless.

Natur’s Pictur N’quill. 2019.

11:50pm. Àtùpà (Lantern)

I am the light, I cloak you from darkness
I see you, I feel your worries
I enlighten your heart;
Sure you don’t get lost in the dark
And this I think, light your path.

Few hours ago,
Before the night beckoned on your soul,
I found you, sun has not ducked fully on the meadows.
I told twilight that moonlight would not be bright enough
To walk your lonely self in the dark.

So I make sacrifice to burn all night for you,
Whilst I wish a candle could burn for me alone.
I don’t trust the moonlight to keep you safe
But I trust in my flames, it will keep you warm.

I illuminate your way while in need of illumination,
For I am your ATUPA. I assure you,
You will always survive darkness under my flames…

®Jaiye_Taiwo with Fisayo (Natur’s Quill)

Date: Tuesday 9th of July 2019.

Reasons and Redwoods by Richard Wilson Moss

I would climb redwoods
I have my reasons
But there at the top of them
Clouds confer, droplets talk of jumping
Angels are angry, seething
How dare one break into heaven
Picking the lock of hell.

© Richard Wilson Moss.

44 Years by Richard Wilson Moss

44 Years

At 16 the sexual revolution
Meant nothing.
Mars was yet mysterious.
God declared dead.

At 60 an orgasm is commended.
Mars is red.
God was not offended.

Richard Wilson Moss©

CHOICE

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This life I wish to live

Is the life I’m living

It’s my life

Not your life

It’s my life

My living… 

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This life we choose to live

Is the life we’re choosing

Is the life

You choose, I choose

We choose, 

So choose! 

Natur’s Pictur N’quill 2016©

THE MAGIC

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Give out the gift of poetry

The earth will rejoice –

The soil, sea, and breeze;

The land, water and air;

The trees, lilies, and wings

 will poise… 

For the earth is poetry.. 

©Natur’s Pictur N’quill 2016. 

HERE WE ARE…

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Here we are

Beneath the Sun

Above the Shore

Betwixt decision

Of east and west

Of sea and sun

Of insight, of flight

Of world of ours

Of whom we are! –

Beloved of Nature!

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Photo Credit: Natur’s Crew

c. Natur’s Pictur N’quill 2016

PROVERB CHAPTER A vs B

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The most sensitive word 

Comes out of’d tongue of a sensible soul,

As well as the most sensible word-

Gain its existence from a sensitive soul.

c. Natur’s Pictur N’quill 2016

THE CONVENANT

While the earth remains,

Seedtime and harvest

Cold and heat

Winter and summer

And day and night

Shall not cease.

Genesis 8:22

TRANSPARENCY

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Cocoyam leaf folds its palm

Morning mourns on passersby-

Walking without a wink.

c. Natur’s Pictur N’quill 2016