What do you know about love?
How much of love can you write?
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WORD UP is the biggest Spoken Word Poetry event in Nigeria and it holds quarterly.
For this first quarter of 2014, which is the love season, we present
WORD UP Volume 7
with the theme, Let’s talk about LOVE.
We will feature some of the top Spoken Word Poets in Nigeria live on stage, with interlude of Soul Music.
It will be an evening of pure poetic delight in words and sound.
Venue is Rodizzio Hall, 29 Isaac Jones Street, Ikeja GRA, Ikeja Lagos.
Date is Saturday February 15, 2014
Red Carpet is from 2pm and Main event starts 3pm prompt
Gate Fee:
VIP 5k, Regular 1k, and Students with valid ID Card N500
Watch out for more details.
The very breath of you
Suffuses my tender soul
Like the morning dew upon the red hibiscus
I live in the very scent of you
In your brown eyes
I find the very end of eternity
I lose my entity
Never to be found
Let us tell the world
Of the insanity of our smoking passion
Let us yarn them
Of the audacity of our affection
Let us talk about our love
Final draft please Editor.. Thanks 🙂
This very breath of you
Suffuses my soul
Like the dew upon the red hibiscus
I live daily in the very scent of you
In your brown eyes
I discover the very end of eternity
I wonder, to wander away and lose my entity
Never again to be found
My Darling, let us tell the world
Of the insanity of our smoking passion
Let us yarn them
About the audacity of our affection
Oya lets talk, Ehn Yes let’s talk about our love
Thisis a very nice piece Adeife… I love this.. “Let’s yarn them about the audacity of our affection”
Love’s Peak
From this web of lives
Weave an umbilical cord
If our worlds collide
We drink from love’s gourd
Each kiss, lightening’s handwriting
On hair’ on neck’ on mountains’ peak
Quakes of passionate trusting
In silence your moans speak
I’ve known your eyes to be my stars
as we drink,
an’ talk ’bout love
In that night clouded bar
this love poem is crazy… tight job Man!
i love this poem “PASSIONATE THRUSTING” hahahahahaah…
wow… some imagery!
Aquila ua good, you should totally get the tickets
but i think love is much more than sex… its important to use poetry for love of humanity. lets talk about love among humans. Nice poem tho
TRue talk @chika jones
sick flow thumbs up dude!!
nice undertones, I enjoyed the puns
strong lines… good write
strong lines… I like it
sexual undertones, I sense……baddo
i like it,,
Nice word weave
could use some work though.. but really nice
nice work..
I really have to share this.. nice work quilz.. thumbs up..
love in 12 lines, sweet
loves waves sense permanence in your pen.
i love the starting quillz
man i wish you could perform this!
From this web of lives
Weave an umbilical cord
If our worlds collide
We drink from love’s gourd
i love that part..
Strong word play, making of a good poet
fine fine work man, you no dey fall hands
Weldone broda.. Welldone…
AQUILA mad man of the century, good job
This is real spoken word!
Let’s talk about love
Not the flowery flattery
Feeling you get
When you think of a certain one
Let’s talk about a love that never dies,the shoulder always there to lean on
A presence always felt,let’s talk about the love I feel for you,
Let’s talk about a mothers love
TEMISAN Susan Dudu©2014
This is very inspiring and encouraging. Thank you for reviving the spirit of Love in me once again….
Very nice,I love it, people tend to forget or ignore a mother’s love, thanks for reminding us of that
Nice one dear, nice one
Lovely, a love that never dies
Wonderful, TEMISAN, thanks for this
People tend to think love is only about a man and a woman, thanks for reminding us of a different kind of love, God bless you for reminding us of our mother’s love
Wow, I love it, thanks a lot for this, a mother’s love goes beyond everything, thanks for giving that to us
TEMISAN, this is beautiful, I love it, God bless you
Nice one, reminds me of my ever loving mom
Wow, sis, this is wonderful, I love it.
Good job girl, God bless you
love the simplicity of your work, good job
TEMISAN, this is wonderful, I love it
Nice good job
I love it
Come lets talk about love
Its the greatest of all
And its letters are four
Known by many but
Experienced by few
It is found written on shirts
It can be seen in the eyes
Some think its under the skirt
And so they tell ladies lies
Its an enigma to you
Its a revelation to me
So i invite you to me world
Come lets talk about love
Love your simplicity. Well written.
Inspiring agape love. Lovely.
Inspiring agape love. Lovely
Let’s Talk About Love
Come! Let’s talk about love
in a unique and renewed manner
The whiteness in the likeness of a dove
embedded in the crimson heart of love.
Come! Let’s talk about love
and have our soul tickled
by the tender finger of love
a tale that lingers on.
Come! Let’s talk about love
we ponder to cater for the needs of humanity
Priceless treasure to be cherished by posterity
Love is what gives meaning to life.
How can the embers of life be fanned, if not with LOVE. Nice piece, very apt for the season
You are working your colors as a talented painter would do his/hers: the stark contrast of the crimson redness of the heart against the backlash of the whiteness of a dove. Through your color symbolism, though, you do offer a far more in-depth treatment of what you conceive to be love in this poem: it rips apart the heart from where it is “embedded”, a heart that was bleeding, ready to submit to love. Then, though, with your second stanza, you introduce a twist – lightheartedness, I would call a flirtatious initiative for the beloved; teasing her/him with ‘tickled souls’ and ‘lingering fingers telling a tale’ only you two would know – yet you are sharing that secrecy with your readers in a very intimate way, pulling them to your private sphere – maybe your joy of this love is too intense to only keep it to yourself and your beloved even…let us wonder about that. Love is unending. Why should one story of it have any ending? (Notice: I left out the last stanza. That is only due to my fear of misunderstanding your intent there, as you move yet again into another direction, guiding your readers onto a different path. But I suspect I don’t have it quite settled yet in my mind. No comment is out of respect, in other words, out of my respect for your creation.)
It’s a pity I don’t know how 2 write a love song/poem, but I truly have a special gift for singing and relating with love songs/poems. U are such one gift who knows how to do this very well. Brilliant! I love dis poem and ur powerful use of imagery and the colorful way with which u strewn ur emotions into words. I love the line ”Darling, let’s tell the world…the insanity of our smoking passion…” I had tried in vain 2 post my comment in d word up website but all d same, I wish u d best of luck Queen!
ALL AROUND ME
On the soil of my heart,
The seed of your love shall germinate.
Nothing shall pull us apart.
Heaven itself approves of my being your mate.
In the river of my mind,
Your thought shall take its swim.
As for two birds of the same kind,
Togetherness shall cease being a dream.
In the space of my soul,
Your being shall take its breath.
Without you, I am less than whole.
Death alone can separate us on earth.
The winner of our Free ticket to WORD UP Volume 7 and a N2,000 recharge card is Aquila with 20 valid comments (some people commented more than once which was counted invalid). Temisan came 2nd with 15 Valid comments.
Thank you for participating.