ADEOUYE MUYDEEN

ADEOUYE MUYDEEN

MEMORIES

Only memories have the memories

of those childly alfresco corroborees

in our fab fabaceous herd

to fable and be heard

habilimented in our grinning habiliment

when the gibbous moon mans the firmament

Only memories have the memories

when salubrious all were boundaries

when limbs would circulate for black shoes

jumping from mergs through bergs of boos

mounting limbs through bough

of barkless birches at arms that bow

Propelling through pools and billabongs

chortling a chorus as the dong of gongs

bathing in the thin-tall-tears of the skies

running down and up with screeing cries

when those stormy tears greeted our habitats

and the currents waited for us in the puddly fats

Only memories have the memories

for honorary were those horaries

till the abranchious grew gills

when no reason climbs me up the hills

storied are the days, told are the nights

taled are the hopping and tethered kites

Only memories have the memories

now that mind thinks for cowries

and limbs forage for fodder

for the nippers I seem the holder

jejune wards now are my memorabilia

let man swear if those days never were dear

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