I'VE NAUGHT (A Valentine Triolet)

Silver or gold, I've naught
My garment drips with lovely drops


Think me not, your paper vault
Silver or gold. I've naught!


Pause not like other lot
Come closer and sip these drops
Silver or gold I've naught.
My garment- drips with lovely drops.


©Feb 14, 2013.

I WILL WIN YOUR HEART ( DOUBLE TRIOLET) Dedicated to Ayinla Leah Olayinka

I will win your heart,
With berries and flowers

Valentine comes in beautiful art
I will win your heart.

Let not our souls come apart
Make this season ours
I will- win your heart-
With berries and flowers.

With berries- and flowers
We will roll down the aisle

Hearts flipping with joy, sharing laughter
With berries and flowers

Be your nightingale lover,
Make you feel so fly
With berries, and flowers
We will roll down the aisle

Showunmi Olawale Michael
©Feb 14, 2013.

MY VALENTINE ( A TRIMERIC) Dedicated to Fapohunda Adefunke Adebusola

I'll catch you a moonbeam,
Dress you up with flowers and leaves
Sing you songs like a nightingale
This wonderful day of valentine


Dress you up with flowers and leaves,
I will, fly you up the rainbow's space,
Watch you fall into my arms while I...


Sing you songs like a nightingale,
To melt your cheeks down your spine...
A bowl of chips will ice the cake


This wonderful day of valentine
Our love is birthed on St's street
Basking in the euphoria of the day


Courtesy: Olukayode Kehinde Opatola
©February 14, 2013.

DEAR TATTLER (PANTOUM SONNET)

Let me be don’t twist my lung
Lest you make me spit on you
Fill you up with watery tongue
Chase the demon out of you.


Please dont make me spit on you
Turn your shaft from that gossip
Chase the demon out of you
…Else I lash you with a whip!


Show the young to live for change
Turn your shaft from that gossip
Dont dare fail to change your ways
…Else I lash you with a whip!


Fill you up with watery tongue
Let me be don’t twist my lung!

Edited by: Kukogho Iruesiri Samson