Cursed be that day Yea, woe betide that gloomy day When the ram-rod straight, oven-hot carbide missile Targeted no-one but you And demanded from you, your legs “I-kun-le abi-ya-mooooo”……… Some said ‘private’ is beta [...]
Dec 172011
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Nov 302011
BEAURRIFUL Milady, when thou ask of me About thy beauty I’ll tread a clean path Not his hackneyed Or of other poets Who doth compare thee to the half-blind moon The poor sun or some [...]
Nov 232011
Ode to mr. P When I rise in the morning You rise and pay your obeisance; In salute and servitude You yawn and stretch Standing ‘gidigba’ Like the Iroko tree Beaming with strength and might [...]
Nov 152011
If the sallah cow wanted a revenge A payback for spilling its blood For eating its salty-fleshy meat It should’ve sought subtler ways Not my own flesh Olohunmaje, Not my life!!! Adekunle! Adekunle! Adekunle! The [...]
Nov 032011
Today, Yaba market shares the sourly fate Of the once-famous Oshodi and Tejuosho’s Stalls and shops, wrecked by the KAI men Ordered by the ‘government’ of Lagos State Like heroine-maddened bulldogs They perpetrated their evil [...]
Oct 312011
Like the ever eluding ebb of tide; The gradual graying of the once yellowed sun The plot is cheating my notions ‘Tis is beating my imagination Who knew Chloe will fall for Greenarrow, her cousin’s [...]
Oct 162011
OMOLEWA, OREEKELEWA! Omoolewa, omodara odejo Thou beauteous of beauties Thy gait of feline grace and spotless charming face hath enough to get man drunken Drunkenness above Oguro’s doing Such drunkenness, folks tag, madness Verily, Madness [...]
Sep 302011
Pull my strings oh Muse, And my smart fingers will Dance to your tunes Of worthy poetical skills And terse-verse lyrical cores Table me a choice, Oh muse Either road I choose, Still pull my [...]
Sep 272011
Under the burning sky we toiled that day Night embraced day and the sky grew gray We’ve worked all day but we didn’t halt For if stumps are not cleared by first light Our taskmasters [...]
Sep 222011
In the archery age, arrows are most dreaded Ravenous Swords and jackknives too Of ghastly fear and shock in man they render In this jet age, bombs and missile are most frightful Just a shot; [...]
Sep 162011
Some invest in silver, gold and all that shimmers Some in their allies, folks and families Some in thrifts and assets that knows no wither And every wealth is an offspring of well spent monies [...]
Sep 092011
Somewhere in the silent recesses of my mind A forgotten memory is re-born Memory of a miracle that never happened On that gloomy day, darkness hunted our light of hope And we groaned in an [...]
Sep 032011
Flaunt no more your ‘weapons’ In them, my picky eyes takes no delight Like a false advert plaguing clients with blights They are just shiny roses amid deadly thorns Woe-man, weep not if futility results [...]
Aug 182011
23, Thoughts Street, Memory lane Bypass, Word-knights Estate Minds State Nigeria. Dear Mr. Poem, STRAIGHT FROM THE HEART Separating a tortoise from its shell spells a tragic death What my ink is about [...]
Aug 102011
Am just another passerby trotting the lengthy pathway called life My years are counting, my days are numbered, After my demise, for what shall I be remembered? Will my footprints be on the sands of [...]