Collections of Poetry By Modupe Epebinu Presentation for English 200 7839 Dr. K.L Hall Direction Definition A dedication A title page A table of contents page with page numbers Five unified poems Definition A collection of words that express an emotion or ideal Poems are literary attempts to share personal experiences and feelings Good poems show images which leave the readers the sense of delight, awe, and wonder. Dedication I dedicate this collection to my sister in Nigeria who I met in July 20, 2014 while I had travelled to Ibadan for a special vocation. Her name is Margaret. I write this to express my deeper feelings for her since no other woman in the world makes me feel the way I feel. She is the reason why the sun rises and sets in my soul. I would like to honor Margaret for her dedication and been a good blood sister. She has shown full support and the genuine love she has for me. Margaret chose to rise above all societal prejudices to settle with me in the United States of America. This is very special to me and to my nuclear family here. Tales of a Maiden is a collection written by Steve Kisorio between 2001-2020 Cell: +25416527820 Facebook: Steve Kissorio Facebook Page: The Scroll Email: [email protected] Table of Content Poem page Tales of a Maiden……………………………………………………………….1 Dedication………………………………………………………...2 The Return of My Ship…………………………………………………………4 A Gaze at the Sea………………………………………………………………..5 A Rose for Jacqueline…………………………………………………………...6 Beneath the Waterfall………………………………………………………...…7 Tells of Verona……………………………………………………………………9 Five Unified Poems Return of My Ship (2015) I stand at the sea shore, My heart has wept for long, I am adequately burdened, My soul weeps for every other day I ever lived, For every jewel I ever believed in, For every poem I ever crafted, For every smile of fortune in my soul, I loved you with every bit of myself, My lady, the clouds of mercy welcomes me home, The sea waves roar with  impatience, .

1. Collections of Poetry
By
Modupe Epebinu
Presentation for English 200 7839
Dr. K.L Hall
Direction
Definition
A dedication
A title page
A table of contents page with page numbers
Five unified poems
Definition
A collection of words that express an emotion or ideal
Poems are literary attempts to share personal experiences and
feelings
Good poems show images which leave the readers the sense of
delight, awe, and wonder.
Dedication
I dedicate this collection to my sister in Nigeria who I met in
July 20, 2014 while I had travelled to Ibadan for a special
vocation. Her name is Margaret. I write this to express my
deeper feelings for her since no other woman in the world
makes me feel the way I feel. She is the reason why the sun

2. rises and sets in my soul. I would like to honor Margaret for her
dedication and been a good blood sister. She has shown full
support and the genuine love she has for me. Margaret chose to
rise above all societal prejudices to settle with me in the United
States of America. This is very special to me and to my nuclear
family here.
Tales of a Maiden is a collection written by Steve Kisorio
between 2001-2020
Cell: +25416527820
Facebook: Steve Kissorio
Facebook Page: The Scroll
Email: [email protected]
Table of Content
Poem
page
Tales of a
Maiden……………………………………………………………….1
Dedication………………………………………………………...2
The Return of My
Ship…………………………………………………………4
A Gaze at the
Sea………………………………………………………………..5
A Rose for
Jacqueline…………………………………………………………...6
Beneath the
Waterfall………………………………………………………...…7

3. Tells of
Verona…………………………………………………………………
…9
Five Unified Poems
Return of My Ship (2015)
I stand at the sea shore,
My heart has wept for long,
I am adequately burdened,
My soul weeps for every other day I ever
lived,
For every jewel I ever believed in,
For every poem I ever crafted,
For every smile of fortune in my soul,
I loved you with every bit of myself,
My lady, the clouds of mercy welcomes me
home,
The sea waves roar with impatience,
Return of My Ship (2015) (continues)
The coconut leaves are waving at me to bid me
fair well,
My ship is at bay,
Many promises I made,
Many souls await for my return,
What more shall I do but leave?
Shall I not but cry and walk away?
Shall I not but hold mine tears
My lady, remember how I cared for you,
Didn’t we live in each other's soul?
Didn’t we swim in each other's pool?
Didn’t we drink from each other's cup?

4. Return of My Ship (2015) (continues)
Didn’t we serenade each other's night?
Didn’t the host of heavens watch in joy?
Didn’t we belong to each other's world?
My lady, my ship is in a haste,
The sea is at peace no more,
The waves are freaking,
The marines are waiting for me aboard,
The ocean beacons me,
To my native land,
But should the ends of the oceans,
Bring forth vibrations of love unto my heart,
I shall come back for you my lady
A Gaze at the Sea (2016)
Is it pleasure you find in puncturing my heart?
I have duly withdrawn myself from my tether
For you I trade my stewardship
If it be chasing the wind so be it
For yours has a scent that wafts far beyond
In the sands of time I trace thy steps
Till I find thee at the shore
Why do you leave? Did my feather grow cold
for loyalty? Why so soon emissary of the
heavens?
Is he so cruel to create such a fallacy for me?
A Gaze at the Sea (2016)(continues)

5. Won't your goodwill last for eternity?
Shall you cast me back at the mercy of the
bitter water?
While in bread and butter you've communed?
Is it not the same ship that blows up in the
mid seas
This voyage shall have no anchor
The waters are troubled for you
You that taught me that souls graze in green
fields
How then shall I bear the pain
Did ever my speech create battle in your
ears?
I search deep within for answers yet I find
none
A Gaze at the Sea (2016)(continues)
Now all alone I sit at the shores,
Listen to lone cowries
As I watch you disappear in time
Your crewmen cast me out
For they cast spoils on and find me at fault
And the last swash sent a message from you
Your return is due, may it be soon
The fields await our communion
The stars are growing weary by night
Of watching my tears
The moon is waning for hope is frail

6. A Gaze at the Sea (2016)(continues)
But love is eternal
Emissary of heavens
Seas are not for angels like you
Disembark and fly back home
A Rose for Jaqueline (2016)
For the Art of memory that I have searched
I have travelled to the very depths of human
heart,
My eyes have toured the most beautiful
landscapes
The contours drawing elegance of an oceanic
breeze,
I have sojourned the stretch of the Milky Way
The zodiac melodies resonating millions of
light years away,
I have visited the moons, seen eclipses and
taken clips
From my telescopic pupils have I streamed
live
I have travelled amongst lines of my writings
I have flown amongst pinions of my stanzas
And in the lyrical utterances of my sonnets
I have never seen such a woman like you
A Rose for Jaqueline (2016)(continues)
I have power to write the most ungraspable
things

7. In search of an emerald whose texture
serenades my heart
And it is in the heart of my Cherry that I
found pure Love
It is in the semblance of my child’s eyelashes
that found myself
And in the breadth of her nostrils do I smell
creeds of life
And in the glossiness of her angelic lips I kiss
passionately
In the reflection of her cornea, have I seen the
image of myself,
And in the aqueous liquid of her plasma do I
flow north
And forever shall I trade my life to see her
happy
Because she is my earth and my moon
Beneath the Waterfall (2015)
Go…go…go…go…river
Move like a troop along the mystic terrain
Let of your waters meander through the shifting
stands of time
Let of your waters serenade the rose beneath the
waterfall
So that as she feels the eruption of the breeze
Her elegance may stretch to the ends of eternity
Let the royal jewelry amongst her heart spread
To the edges of the horizon where the sky kiss the
earth
Falling deeper than the depth of the heavens

8. Beneath the Waterfall (2015)(continues)
So Little River…go…go…go…go…
Let of your waters embrace the floral orchestra
in the forest
Let of your majestic droplets blow our lips with
a million kisses
Let the curling moisture massage our faces with
love
Let the waterfall proclaim the glory of
Almighty God
May the roar bless the generations born of this
vast land;
This mountainous terrain full of fruits and
honey
May the depth of the waterfall pour waters of
relief
So that as we feel the sweetness of the breeze
Blowing up our clothes like kites and
embracing
Every element of human spirit in us
Beneath the Waterfall
(2015)(continues)
May the glory and might of the rose beneath the
waterfall
Be rumored across the river valley
And as the waters settle with the serenity amongst
our hearts
And as the particles meet in the undiscerned mist
Colliding back and forth, Let our souls wait at the
water fall
Let our souls resonate in rigorous recitations
And may the peace of Almighty Father

9. Keep the waterfalls draining into the depth of our
hearts
As the tears funnel into the pitfalls of the space
And let the water droplets continue to collide in
ecstasy
Till we meet again beneath the waterfall
During the next water collision
Tales of Verona (2020)
I heard the empty whispers of your youthful
voice
Strangled in the loneliest of all dungeons in
Verona
I heard the outcry with lacks and deficiencies
whose crevices
Built dynasties amongst pillars of my heart
I saw the soothing fireflies orbit your sorrowful
heart
And I melted in the midst of your feminine
stare
And in the chronicles of my loneliness
Did I gaze with rhythmical palpitation…
I strode towards your elegance with a heart full
of bliss
Woman, the way your waist swung in ecstasy
And your hair blown by the Northern winds
across Verona
Wafted aroma with Devine romance from the
Gates of the Heavens
I tasted beauty of your Million Pound worth of
gold ounces
In the cascades of the teardrops falling from your
eyes

10. Tales of Verona (2020)(continues)
I wrapped up the delicacies digging deeper than the
depth of your heart
And in every smile of fortune, rested my army of
serene teardrops
As you dressed up your majesty, the texture of your
melanin emitted
Temperatures no human race could ever contain
So I melted away…and knelt with my ears dropped
like Cedar of Lebanon
Since, there is no one in Verona who grips my heart
than you
The entire host of the stars grow wary, where are you
little bird?
Where is the bread and the blood we should commune?
You are the rubies of the shores of Venice
You are the mangroves of the coastline of Ravena
You are the beauty and the beast
The endless river that waters my souls with Life
And in You, I will tell of the tales of Verona