The Making of a Poem by Olaewe David Opeyemi

The mind wonders & wanders like a crane in the sky

when it sights an alluring meal of poem, 

garnished with the condiments of imagery 

& metaphors, sprinkled with salts of simile...

with the poet carefully filling in word like puzzles –

putting round pegs in round holes,

Skillfully carving a poem out of a log.

The mind questions:

Where do these poems travel from?

Which colour of flag do they wear? 

Or which passport do they hold in their hands?

What is it that fertilizes the womb of a poet?

What is the mechanism of labour that delivers a poem?

Isn't the universe itself is a bag of poems?

There is a poem

wrapped in clothes of time,

written on the wall of the earth,

Scribbled on the surface of the sky.

Don't poems crawl out of darkness

& sometimes escort the dawn?

For there is a poem domiciled:

in the brightness of sun,

in the shadow of darkness,

in womb of solitude.

There are vibration of poems in:

the whisper of silence,

the rumbling of sea,

the clap of the trees,

in the howl of the owls.

Poems are entrenched in the innocence of childhood

& etched in the scar of memory.

Olaewe David Opeyemi is a Nigerian medical doctor and writer. He interrogates his life experiences through writing which he also sees as a veritable instrument for personal and social metamorphosis. His works has been published by Parousia, Eboquills, BPPC, Selcouth Station, CLH and elsewhere. He's winner of Dawn of Splendour Poetry contest ( Nov.2019) and Shuzia creative writing contest ( Dec.2019).

He writes from Birnin Kebbi, Northern Nigeria. He is active on Facebook @olaewedavidopeyemi and Instagram @opeolaewe.