My Secret Admirer

By: Our Daily Poetry Family

#ODP_Voices – Week 20

[This is our story about love. Love makes the world go round so they say. Love is patient, love is kind…love sees no evil, love does no evil…love is pure bliss.
With the search of love most of us fail to see it even when it stares right down at us…some of us fail to embrace it due to fear even when we know we have seen the one. It’s in the spirit of cupids arrow we write to those whom we love but afraid to make the step…these are our letters to our secret admirers. Let love take control.]

Conducted & Compiled by Joy Munde, Kenya.

ODP POET
Isaac Praiz
Nigeria

ABSENT LOVE

If I should say my love in words
My lips would shiver as they do now
If I should say my love in poetic verses
My pen would overflow
If I should say my love in rhymes and rhythms
My heart might skip
At the expression of my passion
The way that I feel, my emotions
When I hold you, in my phantom
These feelings so intense
Caught in by the spell of your love though secret, like I’m insane
Yea, love is blind
But with you
I’d rather not regain my sight.

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ODP POET
Dee Vixzsg Mmusi
USA

The Mysterious Muse __________________________________I’ve never been the type to say what I feel
So basically I keep everything inside
And with you it was no different
I want to tell you, believe me I’ve tried
But there’s part of me that just can’t take that chance
So I doubt that you’ll ever know
Which may be fine with you, but it’s hurting me
I choose not to show it though
I guess I’m your secret admirer
That name seems to fit just right
I don’t know what I like about you
But you’re on my mind, day and night
Maybe it’s the way you look
So sexy I can’t get enough
Or how you make me feel when you come around
I instantly forget all other stuff
Maybe it’s the way you say my name
Or maybe it’s the way you smile
Then again it might just be everything
Getting to know you seems worth my while
But I guess I’ll never know what it is
My true feelings I could never reveal to you
I’ll just admire you from a distance
I’m not sure what else there is to do

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ODP POET
Amairiani Frida
Kenya

THE CUPID ARROW

It hit me so hard
Wound me
I fall
Desperate
Fatal.

The stab
Painful
Yet sweat
Magnetic
Intriguing.

The cupid arrow melt my heart
I was no longer me
But him who got into me
Driving me crazy.

So my heart beats more
My head thinks less
My senses are arrested
By cupids arrow.

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ODP POET
Lempaa Leiyan
Kenya

HIDE AND SEEK

Secret,
Does your mind secretary in tandem with your game?
Hide and seek, under the umbrella of elephant’s hide.
Does it not it feel like ants
In your pants?
Does your butterflies
Not fly in your stomach anymore?
How do you hold all that yearning for me?
I can feel your eyes on me everywhere.
The apple’s shape symbolic to love figure.
Come out of the hiding.
And love me in luminous.
Secret admirer,
Break the mirror!

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ODPoet: Morton Msowoya
Country: Malawi

CAROLINE

Yesterday,past overhead sun
I saw you
Buying tomatoes
While stepping with toes
For it rained cats and dogs
You feared mud
A glance,In love I was mad
My throat paved way to saliva
Mouth trying to utter words
But fear’s gravitational force
Pulled down my lips
My heart only whispered;
“I admier you”

Today,at a wake of Sun
I realized
Neighbours daughter you are
But I was like Smokie
“Living next door to Alice”
Legs standing still as if caught with Ice
On distance
I admired
Hoping one day will get married
But a try to greet
Only yeald a retreat.

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ODP POET
Phil Ibsen
Kenya

SECRET ADMIRER!!!

The most brightest light is that which erase a shadow,
The most despairing moments is when the dark blocks your light,
But here I am as I am,
Staring at my palms,
Looking so lost, confused,
And I look but I can’t find,
For I’m so blind,
Looking for ties to bind,
She’s always on my mind.

The best forms of love is that which is reciprocated,
From a far I stand, as I peek,
Holding my breath, my heart not to fall,
With thoughts as I wish for dreams,
I cannot be with her, what does it mean?
I love from a far,
My name she knows not,
But she makes a different in my life,
I like it here,
Where none my thoughts can’t here,
Where I can love without fear.

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ODP POET
Karym Yassin
Tanzania

My Secret Admire…

Fate is not a destination I hope it will change
I carry the wounds in my heart like dog in a fence…
When should I tell her? Always my heart she rejects.
My secret admire do not fail I am a bet.

It is a spinning world and am in the centre in it…
I round it, walk it, look it but never talk to it…
My secret admire,I am used to it…
One day I will tell you…but wait a bit.

Sometimes I ask myself oooh may b am in a scene..
but I do not think as am not an actor as it seems..
My secret admire, I cant help but wait..
Am preparing for a day to eat our love cake..

One day my voice will speak
to my secret admire, the one I seek
I don want to tell her because I do not want to split..
Please if anybody sees her, remind her in my heart she has got a sit.

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ODP POET
Fenellah Effie
Kenya

VOICELESS LOVE
Since I met you
I know my heart went wild
I know there are plenty But I love just one
I’ve always attempted to tell you
I love to say “I love you”
But I can’t find the strength
My mouth is shut
My heart is locked up
But I only hope my writings
Will speak n my behalf.

I am your secret admirer
Though we’re from different grounds
But I’ll forever follow you
Like a rainbow usually follows the rain
I wish I could vet a nickel piece of candy
Which is used to make dreams come true
Because I long for you hand
I know I’ll one day tell you of what I feel.
My love grows each time I see you
And my heart grows too
And. Know one day I’ll steal you the secret of my heart
Not until then,I’ll remain to be your secret admirer
..I’M GONE TO SEARCH FOR BEST LYRICS ….

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ODP POET
La’Rox
South Africa

MY SECRET ADMIRE

Knock knock with a bunch
Ding dong of fragrance flowers
it’s a wonderful morning
A morning of inquisitive soul

I walk into my office desk
My computer blast with in love emotions
my sight caught by perfume i like
This engross my love

Why is it too weird…..
Am i blessed beyond the word love
Yes i love the way things happen
But how can i respond to this

I sense innocence in this admiration
It has engross my love wholeheartedly
But note and presents is not one happiness
Is love of admiration

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ODP POET
Mukidi
Kenya

I ADORE YOU

I.
I adore you,
I.
I am silent,
I.
I am afraid,
I.
I wish you knew.

I.
I wish I had the courage,
I.
I wish it was that simple,
I.
I know my eyes see,
I.
I know love is not blind.

I.
I shiver in my own heat,
I.
I curse myself each evening,
I.
I beat my chest each morning,
I.
I succumb to my own feelings.

I.
I admire you,
I.
I again will see you,
I.
I hope I shall tell you,
I.
I adore you.

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ODP POET
Twosly Mpho Mosoane
South Africa

VALENTINE REQUEST TO MY ADMIRE.

First time I met you, I fell for you…
I couldn’t stop smiling.
I wish I had the courage to tell that I like you.
Should I write a letter to you?
I doubt my ink…it may not be enough to spread all my feelings.

Hear me as I whisper ‘I love you’, in the midst of the night,
I love you…
As everyone coughs their words,
Mine are bleeding..
Bleeding from my
Heart to brain
Brain to body
Body to hand
Hand to pen
Pen to ink
Ink to paper
Paper to you….
As you crash my heart
I enjoy the pleasure of pain and love.

I wish the postman to deliver on time, as time sure kills me
I need to learn how to love.
Be my trainer and I’ll be your trainee
Will you love me?

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ODP POET
Philip Odhiambo
Kenya

I look at her face
Her lips lying on her face like sculptered marbles
Her nose high like the spirits of a mosque teacher
Her blush is natural
Natural that i see it greening my eye
Her eyes set apart well
That they blink at me
That they look into me
That they steal the love in me
I wish to see that face
Will you stand in front of me?
In my dreams
In my mornings
I want to see you
I want to face you
Your body on my body
Your body in my mind
I love the hips
So curved like an ant’s hill
So curved like the wasp’s waist
Your thighs i love to see
I love to feel
I love to see
In your dress
In your shorts
In your trouser
I see it curve
I see it bent
Its free of wrinkles
Its free of marks
Just a tattoo of me
Just a tattoo of love
I won’t dream losing you
I won’t leave you
I won’t
Just you I love
Just you my demi god
I love you
You turned me from a sleaze ball
From a sneeze ball
To a sleek boy
To a street joy
I love you for you.

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ODP POET
Cyburg
Kenya

LETTER TO MY ADMIRER

For the great reason you exist,
Whatever rank it may be in the list,
Take a stand as i do secret admirer,
To be great than all the previous explorers,
And notice the only boundary you make,
Is only in your mind so get up and determine your fate,
Because your God, today is in your favour,
As you fight strong, sure and superior,
Come join me as we test the limit called forever.

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ODP POET
Joy Munde
Kenya

LET YOU AND I BE US

In silence I have watched him,
Watched him in the thicket
just to stare at him.
In my head I see us,
In reality he is the only one my eyes see.

Yesternight I saw us,
On his chest I laid.
On my hairs his hand rested,
I can still feel his heart beat against his chest,
Oooh what a melody!

In my dream I saw us by the grove,
Feet in the still waters.
In our silence, our hearts spoke,
In our silence I felt love.

Today I ask of you,
In your eyes I see it,
In your voice I can hear it,
In your every touch I can feel it.
But from your mouth you can’t say it.
You are to me as I am to you,
The secret admirer..my secret lover.

I love you as much as I love me,
You love me as much as the Lord permits.
Come let us be us.
Let you and I be us,
Let our love be a secret and all will see,
As am jealous about it but will talk of us even to the sea,
I love you.

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ODP POET
Precious Katunga
Malawi

WILL I ?

“I love you”
She whispered

Her voice as sweet music
That I may be listening all day

But I stared at her  in shock
For a moment I forgot how to breath

Beads of sweats rolled
Like I came out from a football pitch

Tongue tied
As words got choked in my buccal cavity

I stood between thoughts
Yes,No,Okay,Me too,what ?,Huh?

I beseech a ruby
Underneath water

All this happened in a dream
But when I meet her will I talk ?

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ODP POET
Prof Graciano
Nigeria

THE UNREACHABLE SALAD.
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In your darkness I grope
I grope for the love I already have.
She’s the hope with which I cope,
But it’s only by you served.
Don’t want you both, I’m not polygamous.
Don’t fling the broth, I’m not callous.
I beef you cause we can’t meet.
I respect you but we dare not greet.
I’d rather be your secretary
and keep this affair secret,
I’d rather become military
and make emotion’s block concrete.
I’d save the shortcut to your heart
but will delete your file,
It’s better we stay apart
than test this sweetened bile.
This breakfast table is Harvard,
and you’re the unreachable salad.

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ODP POET
Priya Kloze
Kenya

MY CRUSH

In the silence of the night
Deep in thought
Your face lights my dark world
Thoughts of you make me smile

Everyday I see you walk down the streets
Playing basketball
I think of what it would be like to call you mine

Can there ever be an us?
Do you feel the love?
Can you see my heart through my eyes?
Will there come a time you’ll want to die for me?
Will I ever get the courage to tell you what I deeply feel?

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ODP POET
Judy Lelei
Kenya

SECRET ADMIRER.

I have an idea of who you are;
The looks,
Body structure and stature,
The character and traits.
I have a vivid mental picture of who you are.

But there is one thing;
Do you really exist?
Or may be only in mind, my vision and dreams?!
Imaginations!

I will wait a little longer
Believing that you will come around.
Please come come quickly and relieve me from this heavy burden in my chest.

A bunch of love only kept for you.

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ODP POET
Barati Ntau
Botswana

SECRET ADMIRER
He has been my friend for so long
Being the pillar of my strength
Being my comforter
But without knowing
He occupied my heart
I fallen for him

There are times
When I would miss him
Miss him that it hurts
Missing him even when
He is just here besides me
I would watch him
talking, laughing, smiling
enjoying himself when I burn with love inside

He is my secret admirer
I secretly admire him
The feelings inside of me for him
Are so strong I keep hot inside

I just want to pour out
But words choked me I cannot
Even vomit a word
I am tortured by my feelings
I wish he can see my heart and release
Me in this prison.

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ODP POET
Charlotte Akello
Uganda

FAR FROM REACH.

Deep in the night,
I seek you
Trying to define
Why my heart skips a beat
Whenever i see you.

But my pillow takes your place
In the cold,
I seek your warmth,
But the cold wind replaces you…

At daytime
I reach for your hand
I seek your eyes
But you turn your head away,
Torturing me back to my uncertainity.

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ODP POET
Jante Juma
Kenya

A DARK VALENTINE’S

On Valentine’s day,
I burnt our love letters one by one
I watched as the lilac flame
Charred the paper’s edges
Eating up its way to its heart
And engulfing it whole
Smothering the fire
Of our love
With ashes.

I burnt each and every letter
Each and every empty word
I let the salty warm tears flow
And caress my cheeks
In overwhelming sadness

And I wished you could watch me
Scatter your ashes
Into the infinite sea
Against the sublime dusk
Making you
Just another weightless memory
On Valentine’s day.

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ODP POET
Ameja Caroline
Uganda

SECRET CHARM

My blood boils at his sight
As i peep down the window
Just to catch a glimpse of him
Achill down my spine
Even in my lovers arms
It is him om my mind
Im afraid to approach him
What would i say?
His eyes, his lips speak to me
Arms longing for his embrace
I do not want to ruin this passion
For now, i love you silently.

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ODP POET
Duzulayo Chiposa
Malawi

SHE KNOWS NOT

Many a time have I bathed in the sea of her beauty
Nourished my body with a cream made from the sweat of her face,
She,
Knows not that she is a thief
Who stole my breaths with just a smile
She,
Knows not that calling me by my name and adding the flavour of “a brother,” assassinates my mind
She,
Knows not that I die every time she activates fluffy butter flies in stomachs of other men
With the aroma that comes with the splendor of her existence
She,
Knows not that I
Would want to be
A lover not a brother!
So tell me,
Should I let the pussycat out of the silky bag?

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