The Sprouted Stump
Exploring my talent, putting it into use in the literary world for the benefit of humanity and promotion of communication
Poem dedicated to my sibling, Miss Elizabeth Ogundare, for scaling through opposition’s attacks at her work-place.
1. The seed of a plant
Was taken to unknown
Land, sown there and
Becomes a mighty tree
2. Different animals started taken
Shelter under thine blessed
Blossoming n leafy branches
While you house others
3. Thou encourage living by
Removing dangerous atm’pheric air
And releasing good air
For all to use
4. The sense of smell
Of insecta were stimulated
By thine pleasant smell
They flock to thee
5. Animals cannot resist thine
Flower for its scent
Is wondrous non-toxic
Neither allergic to any
6. Fruit being the end
Product of thine flow’r
Is edible for all
Could also make rich
7. One would think animals
Would be happy and
Contented with these benefits
They’re enjoying from thee
8. The cutting down of
Thine stem shows that
Some of them were
Not happy with thee
9. Hopes seem lost, future
Seems bleak for those
Who wert enjoying thee
Yea, for thine self
10. “Though thine stump was
Yet in the ground
But environment never made
Them think of hope
11. Soon it was the
Spring-time, the roots
Of thine stump touch
Water, thou started growin’
12. Hopes come alive, animals
Insecta are in revelries
Shame covers the unhappy,
Hid for the turnaround
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