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INTRODUCTION
LOVE CHRONICLES 02 Continues the endless journey of love of the poet persona, J.O SPENCER as he continues to traverse the universe in search of true love. He embarks on a journey of self-discovery and his reality appears more an illusion than anything else.
The first installment of this poetry collection was a massive success and was downloaded more than 15,000 times in over 18 countries around the world. The poet persona, J.O SPENCER, won numerous awards during the spell of the first collection, “Love Chronicles 01”. This current book however, has all the necessary ingredients to surpass the feats of the last collection published in 2018.
J.O SPENCER is ranked no.2 in niume.com poet writers’ list world-wide and has numerous other publications and poetry collections to his name, including the wildly successful collection, “Tears in the rain” which also garnered him several other accolades on the world stage.
SPENCER is a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria and a full time Criminal and Corporate affairs litigator
“Running never stops”
The running never stops
The streets smell blood, my blood
Nothing begets my happiness
I time travel to our past as I try to right the wrongs
No cherries were popped, no songs were sung
All is somber as your mezzo soprano voice awakens
My senses and renews my focus
The soft ache that represents my pain
I just survived the Greco-Persian war with Cyrus the Great
Placing a bounty on my head
The sickening sight of bones crushed in warfare
Leaves me permanently scarred
While at the frontlines of battle, Marta! Oh Marta breaks bread with the enemy
As their lovemaking was reminiscent of the
Ominous booming of the guns in Athens
The welcome alas I was to expect made me
Lose my senses with many mad mates
Unbeknownst, Marta is with child!
And like Brutus, she kisses me full on
The lips as her guilt and betrayal strayed me
Offside and into oblivion
Alas! The running never stops as the streets
Filled with blood are indeed mine!
No cause to live anymore
“Unforgettable”
Freewheeling into the present
Nothing makes sense anymore
The force of the first speech
Fire ignited when you took your seat
Sparking the entire planet with your electric current
Truly nothing makes sense anymore
The years passed by quickly as torrential thunderstorms
From nearby rainforests with reckless abandon
The attitude that eventually forced me to preach
Nothing baffles anymore as my soul you did heal
My existence was a byproduct of your very essence
Swiftly turning a worthless art piece to a priceless sculpture
You are unforgettable You restored parity to my wobbly future
That smile that exposed my feelings for you like a snitch
Water freezes at your silent steps
Soft kisses and the memories that remain
No rhyming scheme can be sustained talking about your ambience
Indeed, UNFORGETTABLE.
“Growing up”
I look up from a high mountain
And I remember those magical memories
Of childhood and growing up
Seeing a rose blossom in the sky
And children laughing in the sun
Burned my heart with tears of joy
Through granites which titanic saw
And no shouts reached them from underground
Children innocently play in the moon
Growing up was such fun especially
After the wildest things in the world
Which lies not calm in the mind nor nurtured hearts
But mocks the steady running of time
Oh! Have you seen my childhood? It was very fascinating
I wish I could relive it again
It seems only yesterday
“You make me smile”
It’s almost 3am in the wee hours of morning
I have never seen sapphires dancing in the rain
You effortlessly outshine nature with your mien
The wind sets in your sails as your hair billows majestically
All asymmetric all intentional class
Describing your ambience leads me on a one way train
From Genesis to Malachi!
You came into my life in a blur and ever since you have
Become the rainbow that lights up my existence
Your natural position is in the spotlights
No rhyme and scheme will be enough to paint
A perfect picture of how much you mean to me
I sit up all night crafting a masterpiece befitting
Yet I fall short! You are a goddess to me, nothing slightly terrestrial
Will suffice as you are extraordinary Continue glittering as a thousand stars have nothing on you
“Déjà vu”
The familiar touch that enveloped me
Wearing the very same dress from the botched
Party in high school or could it really be it?
The disarming smile that only managed to arm my memories
With the reality of your presence
What ever happened to Charles?? Married with kids??
I certainly will not pretend to be happy for or with you
You left me in the lurch when I needed you most
The travel certainly didn’t help as your feelings for me
Travelled along with the winds in your sails
Bitter sweet, but my life remained static ever since
I remain a loveless soul hanging on the edge of insanity
Our favorite song “Dangerous game” whispers despair In the background as nothing was the same after you
I wear my feelings for you like a fancy dress
This is no time to be bougee; I want you to stay this time!
My ego aside, I never stopped loving you
10000 letters lay stacked on my shelves
It’s not what I didn’t feel; it’s what I didn’t show
I finally flash you a smile that represents a passport
Back to my heart, not like you ever left!
But you hurt me last time, made my soul swing
Right to left with reckless abandon
Am I ready for another rendezvous with you??
Or should we just allow Déjà vu remain Déjà vu
“Mystery lady”
So mystery lady made my socks literally peel
Her smile could literally heal
Then she wakes me up with her certain swagger
I may not see her for another century, she informs with ginger
Then she sleepy, I cannot lay a finger
Technically mystery lady tell I need not bother
To find out what lay in her hearts under
Be it little fires or golden thunder
It remains cold outside, I shudder
I like her mystery
I like the fact she acts like from the catholic monastery
I like she feels she may soul/sole me up in purgatory
“Smile”
I awake and alas still asleep
That hardened grit, that sultry feel
All I do is smile, smile, smile
Waking up to your bright eyes
Nothing beats the happiness in my heart
All I do is smile, smile, smile
You turn my tears to happy cheers
The last remnants of pain in me you tear with you, all I do is smile, smile, smile
“Untitled”
I wear my uncertainties like a fancy dress
Such love that cures the entire universe of stress
You remain an enigma to me
With you I lose myself
Without you I find myself wanting to be lost again
Crossing the seas of the earth, your love sets fire to rain
Wantonly the volcanoes cry out at my plight
Bottomless pits I enter, creeping to and fro
My heart an expression of love that confounds Romeo
The tales we will both share will spark envy from Juliet
Unscathed, the moon and your love my only companion
The breezy smile that sculpts wonderful artworks in my soul I close my eyes peacefully to the thought that I stole a goddess
The gods of Olympus still chase me for my sheer audacity
But the inspiration to keep on loving you surpasses any fiction!
I look out from the window and see the birds
Singing in an epiphany or rather a spiritual rendition
I see the trees swinging in a bizarre ascendancy
Look up to the sky and see undiluted hopes for
Tomorrow, promise of a brighter future
What is the essence of life for a common orphan
Who barely eats three square meals daily
Who is mocked by the sun for lack of shelter
I neither care nor think about my predicament
All I think about is my future which surely is bright
“An Angel”
She approaches gently
With the gait of a beauty
My heart leaps with joy and ecstasy
Even when others think it’s just a fallacy
Fluttery feelings like butterfly wings
Envelope me when she sings
To envious ones, her speech
Might sound like a screech
But restores unto me peace and tranquility
After series of trouble and calamity
Her smile dazzles
Like the sun sparkles
All her body jingles To the sound of an earthly tingle
She looks rather radiolescent
Even under the brightness of a fluorescent
“Mary”
Oh my! Where am I?
Trees singing in unison as strain I my ears to listen
And trees they seem hum these tunes verbatim
“Joe, she is the one, Mary her name it seems, listen to your heart”
Alarmed, I run faster than Usain Bolt
Still panting, my heart romps faster like a young goat
Mary??
Though clueless, memory fails me not
That Persian beauty that makest me feel safe in the violence of her words??
Could it be, oh! The trees must lie
Or else spine I lack to see the facts
That lie beside me and seduce me all day
“My last words”
Our eyes hold themselves spell bound in suspense
It has always been my fear if life is ever lived to the fullest
The wavy breeze nods in understanding of my fears
Working my trodden path to attaining love draws sneers
No gainsaying, God has shown himself a romantic
Why else will the sun melt and the stars become static
At the wondrous nature of your love that threatens
The royal foundations of physics
All stories about our love tales become epic
Oh! Take me in your arms and never let go
In my incompleteness, your smile completes me
In all these visual effects, my eyesight fails me
With my hands raised in the air in adoration
The sharp thoughts of your royal blood draws a mist “How will the oil on my skin mix with the blue of your blood?”
Maybe historians were correct to declare love inadequate
Regardless, I will hold the sky spell bound as that’s the only way
You are my religion and all I worship
God blessed me for no reason with you
You are that string that keeps playing beautiful melodies
In my hearts guitar, play on goddess, please play on
Our heart beat surges faster than Hurricane Katrina
Earthly obstructions from the throne only embolden me
Death cannot kill a dead man or can it??
Whisking you away from my grasp passed my death sentence
If only the world knows that alone I am dead, with you I live
Where will I find solace?
Since you left, I stopped living
Prison is horrible my queen
Even their attempts to starve me to death fail
Your thoughts feed me day and night and I am well nourished They pierce blades into my spine as I bleed for love
Stubbornly the melodies in my head keep playing
In reality, I am gradually turning to a living carcass
Only bones stick conspicuously out of my skin
My body is weakened but my resolve resolute it remains
Nothing a cause nobler than staking my worthless life for a worthy cause
A cause that defines destiny! Our love my sole cause
Lovely sceneries we created together haunt my dreams
My dreams represent the only venue where I am alive
And painfully that venue is about to be taken from me
Poison they do my water, slowly I live but to die
Hurry my queen! Only you possess the antidote
Hurry my love! As blood splatters from my lips
The toxins begin to take its toll on my body
Hurry sweetheart, as the next time my eyes close
Maybe its last! Feeble my hands have become
Hurry… hurr…. Hurr……. ………………………………………………………………
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“My Avant-garde”
It will be pensive to write my biography
As no stories in my life make any sense without you in them
The greatest mantelpiece in my life as nothing happens without you
Scheming through a thousand books in order to make the perfect line
I remain suspended in the air as your love propels me sky high
Impossible to beat the fire my soul feels when you smile my way
Swishing past like a runway model, your confidence leaves the world in disarray
Despite atavistic tendencies, your beauty turns the devil to a Jehovah ’s Witness
Only a supernatural being would have crafted such perfection
Your tender voice leaves snowflakes in the hot city of Kano
My heart has continually skipped its beat somewhat surprisingly
I intend to retire from my craft until your touch inspires a rebirth
Playing skillfully with the keys to my heart in ways that Mozart would envy
The words at this point have seized completely as I lie helpless
The custody of your love and affection too beautiful, I stay prisoner!
Adrenaline pumping from my veins enough to rival any nuclear weapon
I stare Kim Jon Oun straight in the eye and ask for his very worst!
The irrational things I do all in the name of love
Truth be told, to be rational in this moment would rob it of magic
Clinging to the last sinews of strength as my eyes fail me
Appear you do to give me sight and refill me as is your exclusive
“Urikn”
Dittering lines overthrow my crime
Spluttering, my words fail me, and so does my spine
Wriggling round the pent house gasping
For breath, such beauty I left my mouth gaping
Be winters all mine, that solemn talk that
Straightens even the most crooked lines
As skillfully she plays on my heart with darts
That causes me to cross 3rd mainland bridge overlooking danger signs
The roaring cologne, that spicy trace of a smile
Or was it a smile?? Oh! Your voice ever smooth
Causes forth a volcanic eruption from Jordan to River Nile
I ceaselessly wonder at all ways to get in your groove
EPILOGUE
This is the beginning of the end. Love Chronicles and its unique journey continues in the next poetry collection where the trilogy will officially be over.
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