Saturday 14 February 2015

Valentine Special: Wuraola

Image Credit: Kerry Park

Wura from the black soil - a winsome fairness
Unspeckled skin – sacred to the spectacles
Rays recollected in a feminine silhouette
All eyes can’t but slumber in the stupor of admiration
Oh! Are the orbs of your oval face moulded from the soil of the sun?
Let your lamp of love lighten the labyrinth of my heart
Accept prithee my poetic platonic proposal...

For Wuraola Kayode Fagbamiye
Written By Samuel Oluwatobi Olatunji
Samuel Oluwatobi Olatunji is a freelance writer and editor. He has been published in a number of journals, magazines, anthologies and blogs such as Black Heart Magazine, Black Communion (Poets of the New African Poets), Rolling Thunder Quarterly, Footmarks: Poems on One Hundred Years of Nigeria's Nationhood, Rivers Poets Journal and so on. He is the co-editor of The Rape of Death: An Anthology of Poems. Currently, he is studying English at University of Lagos, Nigeria. You can follow him on Twitter: @SooPoetika



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