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On my Darling’s Cheekbones

A love poem by Martins, where he likens her sensuousness to the intoxication of Palm-wine, for Different Truths.

I see on her cream, fleshy cheekbones
a pellucid colour glimmers
like of a pink rose
that harmonise with her lips.
I see in her a full moon love
which pops up in the welkin.
Her love flicking in the gyring time Her love beyond the heftiness
of her husky thigh:
it never fade under the full-fledged sun.

I feel too,
a full touch of her love
like a gourd fully drunk with Palm-wine.

Picture design Anumita Roy

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Martins Tommyson
Martins started writing poems at the age of 18. HIs first poem was titled ''My journey of life'' which rationalised about the journey of Man till his last breath. He is a karate instructor living in Lagos, Nigeria.

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