Five Poems

by Joseph Ogbonna

From Barbados With Love

Take me Samantha

I beg you,

To your flourishing

Abode within the

Idyllic shores of Barbados.

To the smoothened sands

Of the placid beaches of

Bathsheba. For our

Deep romantic adventure and ecstatic

Surfing.

A split second with you in the land

Of the flying fish, would no doubt,

Be a lifetime to remember. As we

Bask beneath the Caribbean sun,

Amidst the pride of Barbados,

With a flourish, your smile would

Usher me deeper into your world

***

Swift Dorcas

Come with me to the

Meadows and enjoy

The bucolic life

Of the unruffled

Landscapes.

Amidst the low hills

By the cosy pool,

Where we will bask

In the summer sun.

We will have a summer

Vacation date that

Will leave indelible

Prints in our transient

Memories,

After we must have

Explored our different

Worlds on the smooth

And lush quiet green

Of sunny Spain.

***

The Magical Gaze

Ingrid and I met in

A ramshackle pub hidden

In the south end of No. 10

O’ Connor street.

I’d gone there to drink my

Depressed state into oblivion.

But before I tasted the rum,

I raised my wearied head dizzily

In a horizontal angle across the pub,

And instantly caught her blue-eyed

Fixed gaze.

I knew instantly that my misery had been

Drowned in her hypnotizing stare.

Our magnetic gazes had become somewhat

Permanently glued to each other.

And her slim Scandinavian elegance was

Forced repeatedly on my attention.

The magical eye contact cured in a split second,

The very reason why I’d gone to seek for

Solace in a tavern.

***

Open Sesame

I have my plans.

My emotions are deep and

All bottled up.

I want to speak, but my words

Insufficiently convey my strong

Feelings.

I get disarmed when I think of you.

But all I can do now is dream, because

You possess the keys to my own

World. But when can I in turn

Have the keys to your seemingly

Sealed world,

To get to the very centre of you?

Give me the keys to your own

World, so that I can

Loudly and gladly say,

‘Open Sesame.’

***

From Texas With Love

I played my strings in the

Usual bucolic fashion to

Her utmost delight.

I sang about our trips together

To Alamo.

Our romantic sightseeing tour

In the hot summer.

The rodeo sporting events

We amazingly gazed at in our

Deepest fascination.

The Tex Mex and sumptuous barbeque

Food we relished by day, and the

Continental cuisines by night.

The very pleasant reminder of

The age-old western hospitality.

Whilst I played the melodious tunes

Of the country side,

She lovingly truncated my mellifluous

Song with a French kiss.

Reminding me of the cap-off of

Our Texan visit, when we had deep

Romantic moments at the Sheraton Dallas.