I write this piece A timeless ode to peace Gather the choir Make an orchestra Sound the gongs Across the atlantic From the hills of Jos To the far east Roll out the drums Sing [...]
Dec 142011
Anderson Paul
Nov 142011
How can I live With pain this grave How can I grieve When my voice breaks My soul is numb Tears have ceased My breath falters And this heart creaks I am lost, chained to [...]
Jun 162011
Dance, beautiful bride Dance till the gods declare a feast Let them hear the song that your nimble feet sings Let the earth whisper to the heaven in gossip “No one has ever flayed upon [...]
May 082011
I keep mixing up my tenses Mistaking my pen for an utensil Am i lost? I wonder My mind drifts, my heart wanders No more can I write I can’t even manage a smile I [...]
Mar 062011
See how you loudly prattle In a mishmash of assorted preambles Your bulging belly, wrestle to be free Your fickle smile threaten to flee You prance around in garland of excess brocades Waving your wand [...]
Feb 022011
When it came, it didn’t trickle down slow and labored like the tears that dribbled down my face, the rain came down with brute ferocity, Its sound drumming fiercely on the roof in excited chatter. [...]
Jan 212011
In your heart so clear, I feel a thumping palpitation, I read an elegy of foreign emotions. In your thought so loud. I hear voices of rebellion, The call to a cause just.
Dec 192010
I have traversed many lands
Learning a trade for my nimble hands
Some call me the magic cobbler
Others, the great shoe maker
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Dec 072010
I’m on the third mainland bridge. I’m not here for sight seeing but judging from the amount of parked cars, cameras and security behind me, you would think I am an actor waiting for the [...]
Dec 072010
January ends my holidays
My dreams to sleep, eat and play
How could february be so dreary
To harbor the fall of global economy
So fleetingly, came march
With the brief excitement of a flickering match
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Nov 262010
I hear the president rules from a walled place
Under security, sedatives and a dazy haze
Yet when he writes, none compares
His ethos and ways, simple and fair.
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Nov 152010
If you are ever lost
For just a NAIRA
You must bear the cost
Rise up determined and work harder
If u persist
And poverty insists
Do not despair
Toil, and the harvest you will surely bear.
Nov 092010
Your luscious lips adorned my neck
Upon my nose, you dropped a peck
Your soft beard tickled my burning skin
As your fiery breath sent shivers down my trembling being.
Your tender allure held me sway
As you touched your lips to mine
Stealing my breath away.
Oct 222010
Behold, the beauty of this child
Those bright eyes, innocent and wild
His grin, wide and sure
His laughter, a wholesome cure
See his ever comely smile
The grace he beholds his kind.
Tender and fragile to the sole of his feet
Oct 052010
Who buys my thoughts,
Buys great riches.
Who buys my thoughts,
Buys gold,
Wisdom untold,
And many wealth of unending choice.
Sep 252010
My names are Ajoke Adebimpe Adeyanju and i am from Irepodun in Oyo state. Back in 1980,i was the head prefect of Irepodun primary school. My village was highly respected amongst the other villages because [...]
Sep 182010
I congratulate you great poet
For winning the prized Nobel laureate
You told me poetry beckoned
Then, I asked you how
You told me you were determined to till
Drown yourself in the puddles of your ink
Until the hungry world has had its fill
Sep 132010
As i face another day,
Watch over me Lord when i play,
Help me not to cry when i fall.
Instill in me your sweetest love.
Fill my heart with your truth.
As i’ll soon become a youth.
Teach me not to steal,
Nor to lie.
Take me to your bosom,
There,let me lie.
Sep 042010
Oh fair skinned beauty
Why do you prance around like a wayward chicken?
See your soft skin glow
With the sheen lustre of many diamond stones.
When you walk
Your twin fawns mercilessly bounce
Its ample bulk convey a communal dance
Its proud nip thrusting forth like a royal crown.
See your luscious backside sway
Like two halves of the moon on ethereal display.
Aug 262010
On the day I was born
The wick of a small lamp brightly burned
The rain met the sky with stubborn brute
It beat an anticipating sound on our tin roof
When I silently came
On that cold night in may
I slipped into a waiting arm
My tiny buttocks was firmly spanked
Aug 212010
Who can tame my heart?
This beast that beats from the rest apart
Who can dance to this unique song?
That which slips unrequited of my cultured tongue
From whence will that one come?
That who will strut and with me prance
Make this feisty heart throb at first glance.
Who is she that will taste of the kisses of my lips?
Aug 112010
No man owns a soul,
As soft and supple as a child.
No one so easily drown sorrow,
Like the crying baby,
Quickly and mild.
His charming smile he gives to all,
Asking in return only love.
His tender heart knows no wrong,
His elegant ways prone to no error.
He basks in his mother s love.
Aug 072010
Light wind steadily blew, Waves rolled,crashing rocks in strokes of beaut. Nuts struck,an empty beach beckoned, And palms bowed to the beauty of the setting sun, With grace she swayed, Sensuous music emanated of the [...]
Aug 022010
Oncei thought i was ill I used to feel, I needed pills Its numbing effect to help peel I needed to will. Out of my being This need to swim Drown myself in the puddles [...]
Jul 272010
She wants every detail, Like I’m subjected to her,a detail. Our home is now a war-house, So I’m headed to the whorehouse, To get away away from her rage, Her scorning and accusing gaze. Her [...]
Jul 152010
In catatonic shock,i glide through this earth plane, Watching with curious detatchment the orgasm of night and day, The world empty and bland,cos tonight u walked away. I sought to purge myself of this emotional [...]
Jul 112010
She was just sixteen, Last born of a family of six, She was so pretty, Witty and sweet. She had an ivory colored skin, Long tresses,so sheen. Her smile spoke of a tease. She was [...]
Jul 072010
Don’t tease me. Take me,tame me, That i may live, Oh temptous beaut. Touch me, Let me feel your silky tenderness, Soft as dew. Wrap me in the aura of your sensuous perfume. Let my [...]
Jul 012010
Who am i? I am the embodiment of strength, Of selfless love and comely patience. I am laughter found and tears lost. I see,i live and i breathe in words. I hear people even when [...]
Jun 272010
Under the scorching eye of the LAGOS sun. I labor daily from dusk till dawn. In my yellow cab with black stripes. I drive through this famous city. Day and night. My seats tell a [...]
Jun 142010
As the police men approached us,the woman in white pulled me close as if to stop them from taking me away. I shrugged out of her embrace to her surprised look. The short bald officer [...]
Jun 122010
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever” –Gandhi For wisdom and knowledge, I hunger and yearn. Teach me, Let me from childhood learn. Don’t blame the [...]