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Lovesick by Ogunkunle Olawunmi Oyinkansola

25/1/2018

2 Comments

 
It wasn't the sound of her name that terrified me,
It was the trilling notes it made instead
Like a lovesick bird,
The penultimate vowel piercing the ear to bursting
The final consonant offering such sweet release
Just as tortured lovers pine for.
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Ogunkunle Olawunmi Oyinkansola is a student of the department of Crop Protection and Environmental Biology in the University of Ibadan. She's an agricultural journalist, a poet and blogger. She loves good books, music and chocolates. If she's not writing, she's either listening to music or reading because learning never exhausts the mind.
Music is life, Poetry is beautiful!

2 Comments
Bukunmi link
16/2/2018 02:28:27 pm

I've only read about 5 other entries so far but this is quite poignant. I can't help but wonder what name inspired this work. So much in so little, poetry..

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Azeeza link
28/2/2018 11:11:07 am

This magical work of art makes poetry looks so easy to write. So brilliant.

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