Hello, My name is Niel and these are the ChristaPoet Freestyle Sessions. This year, ChristaPoet wants to give you a special perspective to our freestyles. At first, some of these poems were published as stand-alone pieces. But in actuality, each poem is an untitled part of a freestyle session. Each freestyle session is given a topic for the poems to address.

Welcome to the 4th of June 2021, when the freestyling began at 7:52 am. I wrote:

Yo


Welcome to the upgrade
Danfo like I don’t fall
Dusk be my time after all is said and dawn
Had a really planned day, got a lot of work done


This morning I thought deep about something
How we shun the Word and get to anthropomorphizing
Someone who made trees and the python
Clearly that’s is demonic influence and a nice one
Even if I wake up tied to a chair
I am set free by the Word wey I hear
The human condition isn’t the feeling of our hands down
It’s the illusion of enjoyment always being around
And never meaning anything when the trumpets sound

So, from 2013 till today, every few months I conduct an upgrade of my mind. I do it by introspection, “Christrospection”, teaching myself new habits and such… I suspect that it was during one of these “upgrade” that I wrote on this day.

I kept writing:

Recently I found out how it really goes
Judas is saved like a cloud upload
Suicide doors don’t open damnation
Samson did the same after judging the nation
Eyes on faith, Ntụtụ bu decoration
I got power, Agbara to give the nations

Do you recall Peter and his lies
After the first murder, bro Cain went to hide with God’s bullet proof. Chai.
No let them lie to you, and I don’t mean Mohamed
God forgives all and he never leaves you dead
So if you need the OT for the OT, come and meet me
What I studied was really John for my BSc

And after a brief pause, I opened the floor at 8:09 PM. This was the time I brought forth the topic; Meditation.


The first person to respond in poetry was Damaris. Damaris is Christapoet’s host in the Upword series on Instagram. Pretty lady with a serious schedule. She came through at 8:25 PM:

My thoughts speaks an unheard language

An unknown tongue
Too sacred or solemn for my lips to speak
Words would ruin it
So I’ll just let my heart do the talking

I’ll sit in this silence
In the quietness of this moment
I’ll turn down the world’s volume
Till I can hear your heart beat




I

Yes, she purposely ended with “I”. That’s one of the things that I love about poetry. You can mean what you want and reveal what you want, but openly hide what you want.

Sweet Food is never plenty

And so it came to pass, that there were no freestyles until 12:37 PM, when one of my favorites, Eremi said a few words about meditation:

M E D I T A T I O N

Words spoken
From residual abundance

Words heard
amidst uttered abundance

Words received
Alongside tweeted abundance

Words munched on
A mix diet of fresh and leftovers

Pictures recreated
The urge to speak into being

On the canvas of reality
Words meditated on
Become the pictures painted
To recreate again
From residual abundance


Pearlythoughts

Ok, so her pen name is “Pearl”. Hehehe. Why would I call her Pearl when she has a beautiful African name such as EREMIPAGHMO?

What I wrote next, at 1:09 PM, was supposed to be…a retort to Eremi’s freestyle entry, but unfortunately; it was the last entry for the day. Here I am, Christapoet to the World:

I am going to try to write ignoring music
Even though there’s places I can go that’s less acoustic
The negative stimulus has me thinking at my own pace. I should use this to give me a running start.

Like levitate and gravitate like i ate 8 eighteen years olds or i refuse to preach
How dare you blame you blame another’s will on me
That’s what it meant by all authority

The black sea is waiting to be crossed
No. Eremi, so this is Saturday spills
For real, i wonder if i want tweak the theme
And thunder past the label like a beast indeed
I heard

My father paid for everyone one of them, i am commander messenger
I logistic word of God
Not afraid to stand in buses
But i have no proof of that
Got lil Lizzy all tongue speaking
Let her testimony speak
I am higher but i share
That’s that love of which I speak
What is height and what is peak, I found my stories in zooming in

Yeah yeah, and that is how it went down on the 4th of June 2021.

I believe that if you had read any of these poems on their own, you would get a part of the picture. Now you see them together, I think it’s a more wholesome picture. Tell us what you think, and see you next time.

Authors:
Niel Quchi
Damaris
Eremi