Tuesday Poem by Oloyede Michael
I sat on the width of a tree,
read pages of poetic letters
in a quest for  an acquisition spree.
On several burning notes, we agree.
Poetry is a pear tree, pick rhymes for free.
Our clothed nakedness we lucidly see:
The nakedness of nothingness,
The nothingness of existence,
 our persisting  existence.
 I chewed one-tenth of sane tenses 
 interpreting the essence of joyless sentences,
 I bit the fruit of ethereal depth on the poet-tree.
 I marked oxymoron on my speech tree,
 antithesis, I chew for a gift.
 My pulse less understood by morons,
 the voice of sarcasm became clarion.
 The axe of pain is oxy,
 The hook of forgiveness is moron.
 I sat on the trunk of pun,
 It lubes my buttocks with fun.
 I swung and caught the branch of paradox,
 on the poet-tree; wisdom and I had tea, 
 knowledge obliged me,
 understanding took me fishing.
 I sketched the mural of these three literary life guards on a baobab tree, 
 I scribbled the ode of these three on a poet tree.
