A Man Like You

A Man Like You

I met a boy today somewhere

Down the strait, he smelt of sea salt

His eyes sparkled like the sunset

Trapped in stones of fire

*

I met a man down the lane

His frame danced with the wind

Caught like in a hurricane

A celebration in tandem

*

I saw a lad whose lips

Touched by nature’s ointment

Rouged in frozen petals

Standing in a meadow far off

Where sky and earth kissed in languid romance

*

As I walked past him

Colours of the rainbow swished in swirls of skirts

Hearts taut at Cupids pull

The gods came to see

And nature stood still in dance of souls

I saw a man that broke the gates and the floods poured

I saw a man like you

 Written by Andrevn

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23 Comments

  1. raj
    December 22, 04:54 Reply

    I want me a man,who will sing a song of love and passion.
    Then makes us breakfast the morning after

    I know I will experience a romantic and passion enriched affair. Not giving up because of my nationality.

    • Pink Panther
      December 22, 04:56 Reply

      Hold on to that desire, raj. And it may very well come to you. 🙂

  2. Colossus
    December 22, 05:48 Reply

    Awwwww, thank you Andrevn. I saw a man like Idris Elba too and we made love by the sea.

    • shuga chocolata
      December 22, 06:03 Reply

      Of all men Colossus, idris Elba nwoke pp eh kwa? e torgo.

      Made love by myself in my room.

      • Colossus
        December 22, 06:07 Reply

        It’s Christmas, PP should learn to share his toys.

        • shuga chocolata
          December 22, 06:46 Reply

          Mbok me can’t miss the toy fight for anything in this world ooo, the view EPIC!!!

          Uyo is so boring, can’t wait to return back to lasgidi.

        • Pink Panther
          December 22, 07:30 Reply

          Colossus, don’t let the devil use you this Christmas.

  3. Promise4all
    December 22, 06:52 Reply

    Nice wordplay. I saw a man like me, kissing me passionately as the sea rendered us a romantic classical music.
    colossus kontinuu PP covered Idris elba with the milk of his tool, ßo that toy is exclusive to us

  4. Delle
    December 22, 08:53 Reply

    I just wish Christiano Ronaldo would come out from his very comfy closet already. Let’s have a hike in the bushes together, he’d sing me this same very sweet, succinct poem while I tug on his chest hairs and we’d just stare at the stars together making out intermittently.
    *smiling with a lost expression*
    #alliwantforxmas

    • posh6666
      December 22, 09:15 Reply

      Two bottoms making out?sounds very interesting..Did you also give him chest hair in your wild imaginations? Cos the Ronaldo i know whole body is as smooth and hairless like a baby’s ass.

      • Mandy
        December 22, 09:21 Reply

        Oh look, posh is back! Rumour had it that you wer eblocked. 😀

        • Keredim
          December 22, 09:57 Reply

          This Mandyline sef! You sabi stir pot no be small ??

      • Delle
        December 22, 10:50 Reply

        Two bottoms? Really? And you (of all people) would know he’s bottom, how? I thought the forced hiatus imposed on you would be used in harnessing that morsel of staple food you have in your skull into something useful. Oh well, guess I was wrong. And last I checked, people grow hairs and shave.
        You really should use try reasoning once in a while and your punctuations are still as horrible as the word, HORRIBLE!

        • Pink Panther
          December 22, 10:59 Reply

          ‘Forced hiatus’… Hmmm. Posh, abeg coman set this record straight.

          • posh6666
            December 22, 18:52 Reply

            Lol only because of Pinkie will i be replying this…I wasnt blocked from commenting,life has just been really busy which am grateful for and i actually get to visit the blog in the evenings when i get home which am too lazy to even bother about commenting.

            Delle abeg calm down you hear?it really wasnt that serious…You said you were 17 or 18 yea? learn how to talk to your elders the baby of our house thats my kid sis is older than you.

            • Delle
              December 22, 19:37 Reply

              Did u really just play that ‘My younger sis is older than you’ card? Please don’t, it’s quite outdated and for archaic peeps…except of course…
              #lipsealed

  5. sinnex
    December 22, 09:10 Reply

    Not another phantom love post.

    • Teflondon
      December 22, 11:59 Reply

      Sinnex how dare you? How dare you speak against the Kumbaya Clan! Don’t you know Love is a beautiful thing. ?

  6. Teflondon
    December 22, 12:03 Reply

    Wow! This is beautiful.. Wow! I so much feel in love now. The spirit of love as fallen upon my soul and body now. I feel blessed, now I know what you guys feel. Hallelujah!
    And I also want to build my castles in the clouds. ??

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