By Olabisi Abiodun Akinwale: Butterflies- Day 16 Evergreen a piccolo lives in your windpipe & this poem begins with its octave. a butterfly holds its melodies like faith every time your mouth produces a saucy sound -worthy of wrapping itself…

By Olabisi Abiodun Akinwale: Butterflies- Day 15 Love & Prayers ~It begins with love, I tell you, even prayers. -Romeo Oriogun. & I’ve prayed for many things with loopholes in my heart/// for my country where a flower is just…

By Olabisi Abiodun Akinwale: Butterflies- Day 14 A Toast to Love & let the clink of our glasses be to the earth jazz music embedded in the throat of songbirds with hibiscuses, of love nursed into wings & promising dreams,…

By Olabisi Abiodun Akinwale: Butterflies- Day 13 Of love, Mirror & Melodies I have learnt to sniff red roses to survive the loneliness that drowns a heart, learnt to pattern the stars into names to keep memories away from fire.…

By Olabisi Abiodun Akinwale: Butterflies- Day 12 Kedike somewhere before this poem, your absence leaves my body with desolated places & I’ve been wandering in silence on roads that leads to moister voices & everywhere a sound imitates shape of…

By Olabisi Abiodun Akinwale: Butterflies- Day 11 A Museum of Grace this poem starts with the gaps in your teeth, -an open door to an endless abyss. my body fell into it & became a seed pregnant with cities. because…

By Olabisi Abiodun Akinwale: Butterflies- Day 10. Songs of Álání -Chapter 1 …Anike, oh ye beautiful daughter of momma Africa, come, sway in my warmth, dance with me under the stars, roll your waist & let my kinsmen watch with…

By Olabisi Abiodun Akinwale: Butterflies- Day 9 & because love is a type of art In your eyes I see my reflection monologuing, It speaks of the many places in your arms where boys disremember the taste of gloom. It…

By Olabisi Abiodun Akinwale: Butterflies- Day 8 Wife Material It always starts with a firefly packed with the aesthetics of the night, finding a skin to perch into goosebumps, before a song stranded in the mouth of evening birds locates…

By Olabisi Abiodun Akinwale: Butterflies- Day 7 Coast of Butterflies I have learnt to live in stories that tell of boys eaten by their longings to be sky-birds, stories where boys do not wait for love to come to solitary…