More often than not, social media is used as a platform to engage the senses of users to achieve varied goals, some of which are often entertainment without an intention to impulsive creativity. I am often this way. So yesterday, I posted a photo on my Whatsapp status with an idea to call for a poetry tag-team to create a poem (
a poetry duet, more like it!) for fun.
The only rule was this; write lines from a theme suggestive of the image attached. Three people volunteered to spare a minute.
Soonest Iheanyi Nathaniel, EC Opumie, and Eye Kay N chose themes ranging from love, loneliness, and pain.
The results where genius and beautiful, and unedited!
(1)
A limbic duet
By
Miz Conquer
Soonest I. Nathaniel
Miz
In the dead of night I lay awake in the musk of a guilt thrusted on me by
body counts, of uneven numbers, and hopes buried in limbo.
SIN
Fibonnaci holds the secret, but how do I say it's you I crave, how do I pray
to the God of prime numbers? So I cling to the square roots of memories, love
is an equation, there is an ecstasy yet to be proved.
Miz
You are my ecstasy, my Eve moment of choice between the apple and
snake. You are my knowledge and my woe. My already had and my known.
SIN
Between two positions, love, please let me relight the candles and circle the
grave where we have buried lust with chalk. Let us eat again of that fruit of
knowledge and woe, let us raise a temple at the spot of refuge where we hid,
our maker will not ask why we have come naked. I come again to your garden
alone, defying limits, outsmarting Newton; between promise and fact, pleases
etch again your name as a sacred word at the tip of my tongue.
(2)
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