THOUGHTS IN ABELENKPE

THOUGHTS IN ABELENKPE
( about Xorlalie)

              I
THREE THOUGHTS
(On seeing her)
She has on her head
A thicket of tulips
Refining the morning air
In royal whistling

She has a pair
Of suns imprisoned
In her face
Clearing cold and dark
In the feverish morn

Her smile
Builds shrines
On her cheeks-
Shrines for the goddess
Of beauty

            II
TWO THOUGHTS
(on talking to me)
Her lips
A shield of petals
Guarding thirty and two
Unstained diamonds

Her voice crawls
In my ears leaving
Behind minty footprints

              III
A THOUGHT
(on walking with her)
Her steps drum
In unison with my heartbeat

05-09-15
©Sarpong Kumankoma