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I'm a poet from the suburbs of Abuja, the capital city of Nigeria. Curious about the Act of Creation but nonetheless satisfied with my ideal
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Questions that get you thinking
Thought-provoking questions you may or may not have the answers to. Don't forget to tag me @chainedinshadow
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What if I told you that you could live forever?

What if you could do anything as long as you could think it?

What if I told you that beauty was created to hold man in contempt?

What if you could pluck money from trees?

#Money trees do exist

They are planted in your family’s genus

What if I told you love was as sackcloth and sex was created for immortals?

Sex is overrated

Love is underrated

What if I told you everything you were told when you turned 18 was a lie?

What if I told you, you were living someone else’s life?

Would you question your existence?

OR

Would you throw these same questions that now haunt your soul back to me?

#life #questions #provocateur @chainedinshadow

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The world is ending and all that's left is one piece of paper. You have space for ten words. What do you write?
Use another ten words or less to describe who you would want to read it.
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hausofswag in Sci-Fi

Fin

So this is the silence of the night, thoroughly unimpressive

"This is for the dark people of this world"

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Compose a sonnet of your true love. Winner gets spotlighted.
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hausofswag in Poetry & Free Verse

Wolf blood

Hidden in her eyes, my #soul lingered

A nostalgia that #burns in my inners

But she’s betrothed to another

Before she knew who he was, we loved each other

The need to be the good child for her parents had no one else

She’s conflicted,

Rebellious spirit within, longing for manifestation

Moment when she beheld him, we would never forget

Run away with me, we running from the angel of death

Running from the world with no plan B in set

Our senses collide,

To go back to him she decides

Because this #love she cannot describe,

It’s Wolf blood clouding our eyes

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Add a terrifying twist to your favorite horror story. Winner gets spotlighted.
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hausofswag in Horror & Thriller

Letter to my EX

There is a certain girl I love in the city of Abuja. In this crowded city she’s the needle in the haystack. My love for her accrued from my pith up on the day of Astarte arôme. I held her hand as we jolted through the park like #love birds that had just discovered sex. My eyes turning to the side in adoration of #angel galloping next to me. Her hair pretty like sundew on a Ghana dawn. A basking of affection angered for its form had not yet evolved into #matrimony. This was day 26 of this glorious ballad for lack of better words to describe a relationship that had us running from everyone else that shrove to keep us apart. We were not fit for each other and both families know it. Her father called me a wannabe and her mother always thought I was on a fast track to extinction. I shoved off their misconceptions and here she stood, with me, and I believed it could be to the end. Her parents were primitive but those minds make the best wisdom. Business wasn’t #blossoming as we expected, motivation was low and inflation was on an all-time high. She knows what I do and she’s good with it. Sometimes my father says she’s stupidly in love because he didn’t believe any female could take me serious. I feed him though, because he’s my dad.

She’s sitting on a concrete slab as climbing grass caress her bottom half, she’s laughing at my jokes. I’m not that funny but she loves to make me feel good. My friends find no interest in her because they find her easy to please, but they have not laid with her. I’m surprised she chose me, Onowu would be better, his father runs an empire. We are not afraid to hold hands in public so we do it often, damning the consequences. She leans over and tells me the colour of her underwear, teaser. Her sweet nectar drenches my atman with holy water. In this treacherous road she has been my pathfinder. I speak of baboonish words when I try to describe her affections because it’s a double-edged sword. In this city I live in with no job, I can leave on my own accord yet she keeps me. Her sisters said the daintiest things about me but she hushes them like ‘Big Mama’s met her perfect match’. This might just be youthful exuberance but the next words that came out from within me weren’t.

“Do you love me?” My heart throbbed just thinking of the answer her fragile heart was going to bellow. She smiled, something she did a lot. I think it’s just an impression to keep all the insults in.

Today I want to know how she feels because all I have given her was cheap thrills. She was still here and that should have been enough but I’ve met ‘karashika’ before and I drew a circle around la femme for a while. She stood up, did a spin and sat back down but now you can almost guess the expression on my spotless portrait. My mind was restless and a thousand images began to flash through my eyes. She moves closer and now I could smell her true aura. By now my nose was engaged in slow whine with malt liquor. She always drank spirits, this was a new girl. I put my hand around her wide hips and shoved her up, she held me even closer. The intoxicating stench was overwhelming and I was bound for disgust. She then leaned over to steal a kiss and I shrugged.

This was the girl I dare to say, I loved.

Her heft started to weigh on me and she felt like a bag of cement, the girl I knew was a size three.

She caught me on my left cheekbone and I blurted. No telling where she had been but I hated malt liquor. My hands were holding her tight for fear I might lose her.

This was the girl I loved.

I wanted to pop the question but now she would never know. She drew away for a split second and began to giggle, heads were begin to turn to our direction. Her beautiful tenor was shrinking my ego to the minimalist form. I startled away from scene and she followed, hands stretched out as if she wouldn’t let go. I held her once more for fear she might freak. She leaned on my broad shoulders as I called a taxi. I put her in and followed with a shut of the door, “Just keep driving”. Leaning into my utility pack I found a sharp razor. She was snoring and I was agitated. I drew her head back to expose a neck vein and slit it. Blood poured more than in the movies, I thought. I found a handkerchief in her bag that I used to clean my hands. The taxi was an Uber so the driver didn’t see it. I stopped the car abruptly and paid him the fare.

This was the girl I loved but by the aura she had ploughed with another lover.

What broke my heart? Like every girl I have been with, they always ended up sleeping with my best friend. I have problems and even as I drift into the night, I know someday I will account for my decisions.

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A day in the life of your alter-ego. Winner gets spotlighted.
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hausofswag in Fiction

Icarus

Many thought me a #narcissist but I know what I am

Many don’t think much of me but I’m up #high still

I take all my regrets, wrap them in these wax #wings

Maybe I will get to witness beauty that makes the birds sing

For sure this is a new one

Trying to fly high enough so I can touch the #sun

It’s just the sun, I’m not chasing a dream

In this world where airplanes own the scene

Maybe my vision’s blurted or everyone misunderstands what I mean

This pain I experience, the need to choose a stand

So I fly, May I pass #oxygen barrier

Drift earth to oblivion, prove the Sharia

Grant me this one wish, oh Great Creator

Let me be my #own motivation and mentor

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Shoreline

In the beginning there was #silence

The mist rose from like a mantra of the #earth

Down in the deep, a ship suspends

Its captain disgruntled, oblivious of his crew’s bland ambition

The #sailors sorrowful as razzmatazz escalates

No land in sight, no hope for the #blind

Then she shines her light

Her single mind pierces through the clouds medium

In the night of #hopelessness, they took a chance on #life for a last time

And broke their sails for the shore

The focus was impeccable, a dreaded apogee

For just across the #shoreline

A #mermaid lies

Her breasts, a savoring well worth succor

Her hands, muddy from two seasons and a half

Her countenance as silent as in the beginning

And she waits as the ship’s anchor cleave to the shoreline

Ecstasy finds #expression in the sand from wallow times to purposeful divine

Wilt your waist and flick your wrist for debris to free you

Dock on this shoreline

For she waits and marinates in silence

For her mind to purge this boredom

You have to come

But she has a second face

And every sailor that stepped on the shoreline, she swallowed up

Down to SELAH.

Challenge
Challenge of the Week LXIX
Make me smile!
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Beautiful People

You feel a little jaded, too excited

Loose, secure and full of words

You feel no need for status quo in this place

The people that live here are young

Young, Wild and Free

The people that live here have fire

Hot, heavy and crisp

Welcome to Paradise Valley

Where the sun always shines

And the clouds are never empty

Where it’s flourish without blemish

And your light need not outshine the dawn

It’s not heaven but it’s pretty close

The streets aren’t lined with gold

This place is worth much more

It’s a place where you met smiling faces

Where your problems were buried in love and care

It is a place where the happiest people exist

Here, we are all beautiful people

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Can I?

For your eyes only

I write this parody

Can I

Have you in my bed of #roses

Can I

Watch you while you sleep

Can I

Break the #fear within

Can I

Dress your #heart to accept #love

Can I

Bring down the stairs

Can I

Get you thinking about the first time?

Before you turn the #lights out

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CASTILLEJO - Living Single

Once upon a time

There lived an hermit

Castillejo

Humble vanity for fully clad

Hard as nails

Battling to make hay

Bent to be brute, steadfast

Castillejo

Alien gore misguide you,

He holds tiny grip

Leads baby’s through path straight

A learned sage

Castillejo

He had rather concur

No-one cares

Castillejo

Trolling around golden sheets

Ménage a trios

Where Pride, Fate and Wisdom meets

Castillejo

Swerving to social climate

The knowing, cognitive

The doing, choice

No children, no wife

Is your house a home?

Castillejo, must grow

Body must strive to complete

For, one shall chase a thousand

Two, ten thousand

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Boy Meets Death - Conversations with the darkness

So I’m meant to empirically understand this

A #life lived under someone else’s umbrella

Walked on everybody’s path

Only to arrive at the #amusement park of #death

Regretting all the things done and said

Forgetting all the things that come after

Since everything’s #vanity so what’s the cause for laughter

Sensual, #intellectual, master of emotions

I’m a text message from your partner, with no #emojis

Darkness from Light, #Light from #Darkness

Co-existing in a #world that frequently rejects the eventual

#Fire and #Ice, #Water and Sweat

Similar to #acceptance

I was always considered UNUSUAL