Our office-bearers have ultimately been bad. Not even we can say They are but humans too. That is not correct, truth remains that Nigerian politicians are a bunch of failure. To Think that They will build this nation. Is a fallacy. And we know Acquiring ill gotten wealth Is their only option now. Sacrificing and … Continue reading Turning Things Around
Whereas They say government is of the people By the people and for the people. Whereas They claim to be for the people to serve. They claim ownership of our oil reserves. Whereas Our resources and taxes they claim Our welfare is not at all their aim. Whereas They took the Local Content Act And … Continue reading Mind Control
The sea flowing In low speed Into the open ocean That never gets drunk Or satiated drinking The natural salt. The sea dancing In undulating meander To unheard numbers With varying emotions Hot when angered Sinking high tech ships To drown life vested crew. Cool when pleased Allowing a vulnerable canoe To row with ease … Continue reading Worship
When Mr Odeki got to his door mouth to meet the door locked. He quickly recalled that his daughter had informed him earlier that she will be going to see a friend that afternoon. With his own key, he opened and entered. He was carrying a briefcase. He thanked God his daughter was not at … Continue reading Mind of Diamond (Part Three)
Being noble is good and desirable. Goodness is pleasant and noble virtue. When one is good and pleasant. It’s also true He should be praised in manner most noble. Praise: good and pleasurable experience, Shames me for I beg for it secretly. Man seeks praise deep in his dirty conscience. So he is of all … Continue reading Virtue – for my Best Friend
Love is soft Like a butterfly That flutters by. Delicate and Vulnerable Like the heart Of a child. Innocent… very innocent. Yes like A silly artist It colours The world anyhow Just anyhow Like a blind painter. And it flutters by Like a butterfly. Yet mountains Have been moved. They have danced. And the fiercest … Continue reading Madness
The sun that afternoon was burning with the fierceness of an angry deity. On such afternoons, taxi drivers were usually compelled to remain under it and work because that was when commuters cannot bear to trek even the shortest distance or even use motor bikes to their destinations. They preferred the taxis at such times … Continue reading Mind of Diamond (Part Two)
Oreva Odeki sat alone on the bed in their one room apartment. It was another of such a day again for her. She had silently referred to their condition of poverty as hell. She knew her father would not be happy to hear that from her because he had been doing his best; he wasn’t … Continue reading Mind of Diamond (Part One)
Close your eyes to the lines Spun here on this page So you can see through The heart dancing here. One badly battered by fate, But retains its verdure. Pierced, shot and drowned In the murky waters Of world politics. But emerging again fresh With a crown. This black heart Thumping to the fresh beat … Continue reading Black Innocence
Pieces of my childhood, Bits of my youth, Lined at my back. Bits and pieces of my back Like oysters on the sea shores of time. I still feel the calling of the parts: To pick up to string together, What should not go just like that Precious pieces of my heart Scattered all over … Continue reading The Grip
I like you because you smile With those sad lines On your shiny black face. You allow strangers To drink milk from your cup, Not that your own children are filled. I like those firm soft breast Of yours that have fed many mouths. Yet full and shiny. I like your dark hair The way … Continue reading Love Song
Every barrel of crude Lifted from our oily Soils and waters Is in itself a tight mixture Compounds and blood. Blood of heroes Sung and unsung. Heroes whose fires Where blown out Before their prime. Each shipment stolen Contains the future Of oppressed children unborn At their funerals We draw our strength And nurture our … Continue reading Funerals
The cool morning breeze Soft-tapping on my door again and again Like a secret lover Seeking to sneak in Secretly. Many morning birds On the trees Just ahead my verandah Chirping happily Like ten thousand typist In a large typing pool Typing… typing… typing, Dawn again. The sun is raising its head again In the … Continue reading A New Day
My heart is a fortress for all those Yearning to come and dwell close. Housing the whole lot of Earthly good and odd Thoughts. A great heart houses Plenty of replenishing Thoughts while The greatest warms the Lowly with love In form of artistic smiles. Sit around this table of my heart Put up your … Continue reading A Castle of Poems
You began a sound poem -with purity, nothing had grown And ended it so -impurity is free like your soul Between these lines you made bare How cruel and worthless purity can be And attributed worthiness to impurity Your standpoint is unshakably clear And as a poet, I can swear It is one of the … Continue reading A Word withTaban Lo Liyong