DINNER AT THE KING’S YARD

It was dark and quiet
Seldom, if sun rises at the moment
Fracas at the market
Sun has lose it sight

 

Birds showing what they’ve got
Plainly from the gut
Sonorously without faults
On the Iroko tree near our hut

 

When a boy stares
At the moon
When the gorgeous stars
Changes a hopeless man’s mood

 

Princess Adetoun made for me
A call ought not to be missed
Out of this planet I mean
Shall one resist Her Highness appeal

 

Several thoughts accommodated my heart
Just that night
Boldness engulfed my earth
But the call remained hid

 

Dinner with the King

Dinner with the King

For I’m not handsome
Lively and gregarious like some
Compared to Saul
My boldness was for that night and that’s all

 

From head to toe
Joy found my mournful soul
“You’ll eat with her in one bowl”
A guard whispered in low tone

 

Humbly I sat
And the princess told me I’m like her heart
Though being to the north and south
Yet, I transcend her heights

 

Like the honey’s taste on a sour paste
Was our soul after the delicious taste
We fell in bed with uneasy haste
We wrote it a memorable date

OMOTOSO, SEYI OLABISI

 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR OF DINNER AT THE KING’S YARD

OMOTOSO, SEYI OLABISI was born on 19th Feb. 1996. I hail from Ikire the land of Dodo, Osun state. I attended Holy Cross Catholic Primary School, Ikire. Having graduated, I was admitted to  Saint Augustine’s Commercial Grammar School where I was elected as the Social prefect boy of my set. I was then one of the competitors group, a group said to be the community of the intellectuals. Having succeeded in the secondary school, I opted to study Medicine in the great citadel of knowledge; The Lagos State University, Ojo which was successful but to a different course, Physics.

 

 

 

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