Omotayo Fatunbi's Profile
Reflection
With my naked eyes did I peer through the blind night
True friendship, long ago being exiled
Stars out of the dark seemed to have felt my plight
As I beheld the rebirth of a boat that had once capsized.
A new hymn my spirits sings
The feelings through out my marrow swim
Together we could soar with eagle’s wings
For on marbles we did pen our psalm.
Like minds, like visions
Attitude, different, maybe
That also could be influenced through the mission
Iron that sharpeneth iron we could be.
Relfection of me through him I see
Inspiration through him like light beams
What his vision taught him about me I can’t see
Perhaps from the same source our light beams.
© Fatunbi Omotayo
Ode to a Step Son
This relationship we have to consolidate
For you’ve done marvelously well from beginning till date
Remember, on your first day, what I told you
“Be good to people so they’ll be good to you”
It’s lucid you’ve grown feather
But keep it low
Till the storm is o’er
And the tide is low
When the fog disappears
You may roll your wheel
Travel to wherever you will
Or spread your wings and gallantly you fly
Far away to the creatures that live in the sky
Like the moon, you shine when the sun has gone to sleep
And everyone wishes you were but a diamond they could keep
Then will I say it’s because you heed the words of the wise
And did not hardening your neck
And refer to them as lies
Now I am glad that to my expectations you’ve lived up
And that which your humble heart had learnt you would keep.
© Fatunbi Omotayo
Jogodo
Seated across the railway line
Our body chemistry still responding
To the stimulation of palm wine
Together with rum in a perfect blending.
Me lighter in one hand
Me ganja in me other hand
Me getting high
While me inspiration comes from the Most High.
As me kon dey reach claro
Babylon dem show face
Na so me kon drop me claro
Boy, come see race!
The three big bottle of Guinness
Sit carelessly atop my table
Every drop, a drop of greatness
As I bury bottles under my table.
The soup is the best part
A hot plate of cat fish
That I skillfully devour
Part by part.
Soon to come is nature’s call
And all I need is a toilet
And with one finger in my throat
Half the drink with all the fish
Journeys down in one vomit.
So I squander my wealth and health
Then again at the break of dawn
Another reality to dawn on me
Is that of hangover that’ll deal with me.
#jogodo: drunkenness
(C) Fatunbi Omotayo
A sight of scenic beauty
Searchingly the rising sun peers
Tearing through the curtain
Consciously and supposedly shy to behold the face of the mountain
Her reflection upon the calm surface of the water let out a smile
Like the distance between us is but a quarter of a mile
Enticingly she winks
Can’t hold her hurting gaze
So, constantly I blink
Fishes swim with glee
Time of the day when from their nests the birds want to flee
Trees in a rendezvous respond to the sound of the canary
Mouth agape in amazement as I watch the scenery.
© Fatunbi Omotayo
A Black Sailor's Song
Atop the endless mass of this blue sea
Where only the blue sky and these endless waves my eyes can see
As I stand on the starboard and watch
Yes, i watch and wait
For this seemingly endless journey to end
Just to dock and step my soiled foot ashore
Yes my soiled foot
Buried in this bruising safety shoes
And this coverall that I had to wear
The picture of the slave ship keeps popping to mind
And the cry of my fore fathers
As they bow to the Whiteman’s whip
Feeling like a Mandingo soldier
Making it back home from the slave trade
Though in search for the green.
© Fatunbi Omotayo
The Preacher
The Preacher told me that
the ultimate mission
is to buy for myself a
home in heaven
So I pay the tithe without
omission
And I pay the offering as
a toll for the gate of heaven
Yes, I pay the seed
offering
Even the first fruit offering
But I heard the preacher
has built a mansion in Lekki
And bought a private jet
low key
But here I sit in my
bedbug infested room
In the slum of Ajegunle
Hoping my tithe and
offering would build me a home in heaven.
© Omotayo Fatunbi
Before the Reaper Come
Before the heart stops
Before the sound of the
hearse fill up the street
Before the pallbearers’
display
Before the grave
Before the dust
Dust to dust
Ashes to ashes
Before the tears
Before the mourning
Before the condolences
Fake and genuine
Before the tribute
Before the end
Let this star shine
Shine!
Shine bright!!
Brighter!!!
Brightest!!!!
Before the reaper comes.
© Omotayo Fatunbi
I’m Sorry My Friends
If I can’t cruise around town with you
To hunt for skimpy skirts
Jumpy jumpers and pencil trousers
Learn to forgive me, please.
If I can’t go chasing
For busty boobs and big booty
For shinny braids and glossy lips
Learn to understand with me, please.
If I can’t hang around with you
And gist deep into the night
Like it used to be in days of old
Forgive me for my change of ways.
A woman is a woman
Whether slim or fat
Tall or short
Dark or fair
I’ve got one
And that’s enough
But try to understand it’s not my fault
That the one I chose is not your taste.
© Fatunbi OmotayoSowing Creed
On eagle's wing,
together we'll soar,
with tide high or low,
like boat we'll float,
since God is d wind that controls our sail,
let's spread our wings,
We cannot fail.
Dear Lord we pray,
hear us dis day,
when we till d ground and sow a seed,
send d rain and let d sun smile,
bless our seed so we also could smile
to your house with thanksgiving,
amidst of bountiful harvest.
(C) Fatunbi Omotayo
Failed Fellowship
A bunch of errant bench warmers
Bound by a deceitful daily ritual
A sacrifice to diverse personal gods
While on every lip, Praises of the one true God.
Malice clings unto the sisters’ breasts
Hatred flaming in the brothers’ eyes
Backbiting clambers unto the mountain’s crest
A people filled with sassiness, hypocrisy and lies.
They gossip with tongues that cut like blade
If for their likes, heaven is made
Then why won’t I make mandatory
A frequent hell fire sojourn?
© Fatunbi OmotayoOur Darling Lover
At first came a cloudy cloud
Followed by tears as they pelt down
And that chill in the air
That got me emotionally ill.
My heart throbs with pain
As it flows
A stream of memories
Through my bleeding heart.
Whether it’s karma
That brought about this trauma
My lessons I’ve in a hard way learnt
That what I used to call mine
Is not just mine but ours.
© Fatunbi OmotayoLet Me
Roam the earth as I will
Like a nomadic shepherd
Always on guard
And sleep outdoor at will.
Let me
Sojourn far away
In the strangest of strange lands
Never to go astray
But to grab the milk and honey
With my bare hands.
I wish for a reprieve
Like a raging renegade
I need relief.
Let me
Embrace solitude
For I am a hermit
Not willing to walk with multitude
Not going back to my vomit.
We all hide our hideous face
Concealing our crooked case
Wasting away in our comfort zone
In the city that offers us nothing.
Let me go
For it behoves me to do so
Till out of this boy
A man is made.
© Fatunbi OmotayoBukky-Go-Round
Coming after you at full pelt
Never knew
I was barking up the wrong tree
That under the cloak of love, or lost, I was hiding
Dossing on the floor of illusion
Tossed here and there
Flying the blind sky
Like a fly in a dark lampshade
Hope sky-rocketing
Time flies with the speed of lightening
The day would come
When you’d slip and fall
In this well of love
That I’ve in my heart dug.
But the day would not come
For to his abode you hastily headed
To explore and exploit
Whatever it was that caught your owlish eyes
Yet your buttocks would not stick to his mat.
Again you make your move
To hobnob with yet another
And maybe fulfill your foolish fantasy.
A circle of friends we were
But like a merry-go-round
You successfully scaled through us
Still seriously holding to your cloudy claim
Of being a mummy’s girl
Despite your love for classy things
And the way you dog-chased
After flashy cars
From clubs to rendezvous of all sorts
Now you are on your own
In the maze of indecision
No one would heed your call
Time to leave room for others
For you’ve had your way.
Maybe
Or maybe not
You’ve learnt
That actions have consequences.
© Fatunbi OmotayoStay at Home
Or wouldn’t you?
When a killer is on rampage
Out there on the street
It is there in the air you breathe.
Stay at home
Or wouldn’t you?
When the plague is lurking
Waiting at every corner
For another captive, another victim.
Stay at home
And keep washing your hand
Don’t touch anything
Maintain social distance
Even within the family.
For death is all around
On the lamp shade
On the kitchen cabinet
On the door post
On the street light pole.
Death has melted into thin air
It sits atop the tap water handle
On the washing hand basin
On the floor of the mosque
And even on the church seats.
How quick the border closed against the importation of rice
A good move; wrong timing
But the border would not close on time; against the world’s most dreaded virus
For they still had a trip here or there to make
Their children abroad needed some time to return home.
Now the virus is imported
Whether you have an international passport or not
It has been imported for all
At a cost too exorbitant for us
For we pay with our freedom of movement.
Yes we are now staying at home
We are no salary earners
But we stay at home
Even salary earners have exhausted their chicken feed
Yet we stay at home.
Of course we would stay at home
For it is better to die at home
Than to litter the street with corpses
We would stay at home
And save the health workers the stress of picking victims on every street.
Stay at home
For the nation has only few testing centers to boast of
Our hospitals lack facilities
It is no news
Since every politicians travel abroad for treatment.
People die of malaria
People die of all sorts of ailments
Kidney disease took a lot of our loved ones
It matters not
For our leaders seek refuge in UK hospitals
The number one citizen has spoken
Only three states to stay on lock down
Two, plus the Federal Capital Territory
A promise of relief materials was made
Only for them.
But the rest of us to stay at home
At our own risk
No food, no money, no relief material
Just stay at home
And keep washing your hands.
This Time
This time will pass
Says the sound of my flute
This season of pandemic
This season of plague
That is poised to wipe mankind off the earth’s surface
This time will pass
Says the sound of my flute
This season of no handshake
Sneezing into the elbow
And warning of not touching my own face
This season will pass
Says the sound of my flute
This season of fear
This season of suspecting every coughing neigbours and friends
Maybe or maybe not its common cold or the dreaded covid19
This season of economic downturn
This season of land, air and water border closure
Even religious pilgrimages are forced to retreat
For this pandemic has no respect
For rich, poor, holy or atheist
Even the scientist were caught unaware
And thrown into all day and night research
To develop a potent vaccine for the cure
Be it a fulfillment of another apocalypse
None can tell for now
But it will pass
And make a page in our history
That a pandemic ravaged the world
And left the beasts to thrive
But tore apart the world of man.
© Fatunbi Omotayo (March 2020)
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- My Love
- MASSACRE INSIDE THE SANCTUARY
- NURSE
- Battle with impurity
- Waist Bead Lover
- Stranger-democracy
- A LOT IN MY TIME
- LET US SAVE NIGERIA
- MY GRAND FATHER
- IMAGINE THAT
- THE SONG OF LONELINESS
- THE NIGHT RAIN
- WHEN TWO WORLDS COLLIDE
- YOUR HUSBANDS
- THE NIGHT RAIN
- THE FUTURE UNKNOWN
- OUR KING'S DAUGHTER
- WHEN YOU SEE OLUCHI
- COULD YOU BELIEVE?
- IT IS TIME
- BOREDOM
- THE TALE OF YARI AND THE SPIRITS (I)
- MURDER IN THE CATHEDRAL (To Owo victims)
- OUR WORLD, OUR PAIN, OUR REMEDY
- Your vote counts
- FUNNY THING ABOUT LIFE
- The trials of jethro
- TOMORROW CAN ONLY WISH US WELL
- GOOD THINGS TAKE TIME
- Opportunity
- I wish
- MY JOURNEY AS A CHILD
- Wole Soyinka
- My society
- Silence Becomes Violence
- THE CORE OF CORRUPTION _ Richie Kharis
- A Letter to my crush
- Leah Sharibu the unsung heroine
- Akunna the Osu goddess
- The Cry of a wounded Nigerian
- Weep not Nigeria
- Nigeria the sleeping giant
- Nigeria My Motherland
- Nigeria
- A GOOD LEADER
- CONSCIENCE_Richie Kharis
- THE PAST
- Làbáké
- It's over mate
- Friends
- UNTITLED.
- THE ART OF LIFE
- My Roof, My Rules
- Mirror mirror [lll]
- Mirror mirror [ll]
- WARS OF TOMORROW
- MIRROR MIRROR
- Education
- The Girl I Called My Boo
- Ephobia
- Prisoner of Depression.
- The pain of the world
- Broken reality
- Silence
- If silence could speak
- Silence
- Sunset at predawn
- Marriage drama and its many genres - a duet
- Fpg contest
- One Loop
- Agape Love
- LIKE PETROL, UNLIKE PETROL
- Our old men
- Lullaby to Princess
- Collaborate to Succeed
- Electioneering
- I can't
- BOY SCOUTS
- Sweet Repose II
- Sweet Repose I
- The State of A nation.
- EFFORTS ON REELS
- GIORGIO BABONI
- I Am The Victim Of Myself
- Sabeta
- MY MOTHER THE IYELOGBE OF EDO
- .
- Olaiva
- Sometime in April (My Fallen Heroes)
- Lamps of Education
- Upward Bound
- 100 percent about me
- Memories of Mama
- A Prayer
- My Valentine's Anthem
- Love Me when you can...
- Nigerian Politician
- Satan's Chronicle
- All I Have Left
- Barrenness to Adoration
- Sinful Imagination II
- LONG RIVER
- My Story of Southern Kaduna
- My Story of Northern Nigeria
- Afterlife in Anguished
- Marital Gift Snatched
- My Love Story
- Sacrilege
- Sinful Imagination
- MONEY
- The Fall of Man
- THE CLARION CALL I OBEY
- We are Journalists
- Not For You
- Deserted
- My Endocardium
- Deaths Harrasing Thoughts
- The idiosyncratic
- What If?
- I Am A Poet
- A crying child
- Anxious Outcast
- Kiss me goodnight
- To The Woman I Fell In Love With
- A Wish
- Fatherhood
- HARMATTAN
- Nothing last forever
- M.O.A.T - MY OGA AT THE TOP
- EVEN IN FREEDOM
- ON THE BANKS
- GOLDEN RUBBISH
- Black Girl
- OUR BROTHER HAS GONE MAD AGAIN (To those enduring the madness in town)
- My Country
- The lazy bird
- Where I want to live
- Silence
- I'm scared of you
- GRACE
- *****
- Thoughts of you
- World of words
- Another bed of lies
- Hidden Things
- THE YOUNG BOY @61
- A Regretful Mistake
- We Are The Snails
- NATION BUILDING
- ,
- STAKE
- Cam...
- I choose You
- I Hate To Tell You
- LETTER TO MY SPOUSE
- DREAMS
- BUT YOU SAID, YOU LOVE ME
- Where does True happiness lie?
- IN OUR LITTLE SMALL VILLAGE
- The hidden force
- It is called acting
- How to love a feminist
- Die empty
- Unconforming
- Imagine
- EL ELYON(THE UNFATHOMABLE MYSTERY)
- Tell Us
- Those
- Gradually
- Làbáké
- A WOMAN
- BIRD'S EYE VIEW
- NIGERIANS OF MY TIME
- Thanksgiving
- Paradox of existence
- CHASING THE WIND
- Life Tracks
- Mulatto's Scar
- Never' Never Land
- Longings
- HUMANS
- THE KISS OF THE DEVIL
- Rainy thoughts.
- Dear Mama
- FAREWELL MESSAGE OF JULY
- AN ENEMY WITHIN
- COLD HANDS
- Afresh
- Twist
- Trust
- My Black Skin
- BREVITY OF LIFE
- A Nation in doldrums.
- Limit Line
- NO PLACE LIKE HOME
- LiNES WRITTEN DURING MY JOURNEY HOMEWARD.
- THE JOURNEY
- THAT THING
- Disorder
- Dear Music
- NO GOING BACK
- With Me
- Uncharted
- Pass me not
- *Why God Chose Me?*
- *Meant to Be*
- *WHO ARE YOU* ?
- *Seek*
- *A MAN AFTER MY HEART*
- *The Power of Youth*
- Regrets, Insecurities and Fears II
- THE PROBLEM MAN
- Miss Fortune's Misfortune
- The Real Lunatics
- Undying
- DON'T STAND AT MY GRAVE AND WEEP
- MOTHERS EARTH
- THE BROKEN APPOINTMENT
- HALF A YELLOW SUN
- POETIC JUSTICE
- LETTER TO AN UNKNOWN LADY
- LET ME BE
- SMILE
- WHAT GOOD IS A DAY?
- BE SENSY NOT JUST SEXY!
- SUCCESS GOT NO AGE TAG
- CUT SOAP FOR ME
- Book Of Hope
- Blissful Eyes Of Clay in The Multitude.
- Mortal
- Adventure
- SAVE A SOUL
- THE CRY
- Modern Marriage.
- THE SONG OF NAMCHI
- HAPPY FATHER'S DAY
- Abused
- BlESSING
- The Ancient Dance
- BROKEN
- Drift
- GARMENT OF PRIDE
- UNCENSORED
- IN SEARCH OF BEAUTY
- THE TESTATOR
- CHALICE
- WORD
- The fresh beginning
- A LETTER TO A NIGERIAN FRIEND
- CHALICE
- UBUNTU
- HOUSE
- Prayer of a dying girl
- For what?
- THIS IS WAR,LOVE IS LOST
- LETTER TO MY HUSBAND
- I Know
- The Day I'll Be Breathless
- The Journey Through The Tunnel
- I Believe
- Nitty-gritty
- HOW LONG?
- WE DANCED THE CULTURAL DANCE
- HAPPY NEW MONTH
- LIVE NOT LIFE
- MY CHILDHOOD DAYS
- SEASON OF IRONY
- Black and Beautiful
- Money and Sapa
- Shades of Penury
- PROUDLY AFRICAN
- WHERE IS THE LAND I COME FROM
- ISN'T THIS ROSEMARY?
- "Robbery"
- No Man Is An Island
- DARKNESS
- Silence
- TRY AGAIN
- ODE TO A TROUBADOUR
- WARSHIP
- TENANTS OF THE HOUSE
- HERMIT
- Hilltop Rose
- Glitch
- WE LOVE SOCCER
- TALES OF A NATION
- My Personal Dairy
- *Bleeding Nation*
- Time
- Anticipated Coming
- The greatest gift (mother's day poem)
- Become The Man You Plan To Be
- Your Voice
- Where do we go wrong
- When I'm no More
- TALENT
- THE LIFE I WANT
- A day shall come
- Morning
- The view from Ugele hill
- More about love
- Reminisces on the eve of my departure
- PLUG
- To my wife if I leave
- I am not dirty
- Aloof from your "crazy"
- Brigandage
- Dying declarations
- A flag at bay
- Getting hurt
- Ode to my TUTOR
- My Muse
- Do Not Go Nigeria
- A trip to insanity
- The warrior i became.
- DEMIDEVIL Night 7th
- Caged
- Felicity
- When I Am No More
- One Time Lovers
- Gift me a lotus tree
- A Poor Boy's Love
- Why must love hurt so?
- THE CURSED CROSS
- The danger I love
- Dreamer's dream
- Anchor
- This and that
- Sapa
- SILENT
- /maɪ mjuːz/
- HER
- Only Human
- Easy
- FRENEMIES
- BELOVED STRANGERS
- BEFORE I DIE
- OUR PUNCTURED PRIDE
- Just Give Us Hope
- The calling
- What legacy shall I leave behind
- Unfinished
- This and that
- Beauty from ashes
- OGÚN
- I'll go and talk to the President
- Messiah's coming
- LOVE THE GREATEST EVANGELISM
- As He Is !
- SAY THE WORD
- The Mystery of God's Love (ADITU)
- Never change the way you are
- Family
- Knowing God's Will
- A Minute
- It's Really Up To You
- MEET UP
- SERENITY’S SOLO
- Stay With Me Nigeria
- Stereotypic Nepotistic Politricks
- KOLA
- Frenemies
- MYSTERY
- A Proud Heritage
- Happiness is a moment's job
- MY WHOLE LIFE
- Executhieves, Sinators and Authorithieves
- I AM HAPPY TO BE ME
- Lone Wolf
- I L Y
- Do-Re-Me-Fo-Sa-La-Ti-Do
- The Voice Of God
- Forbidden Love
- The Mystery of God's Love ADITU)
- the day walks into the sunset
- Cry....And Let Me See
- Alone
- I Am Me
- meet me where the traffic jams
- Can You Sing?
- and then i left the room
- Abnormal man
- Backup Plan
- My Heart Still Hurt
- Never Leave
- A Lost Smile
- THE END OF THE TIDE THAT CAME
- A New Leaf
- As A Country Soweth. . .
- Covid 19
- My lovely mother
- BERCEUSE
- "On a Good day"
- Udi and the Animals
- LISTEN YOU UNRULY SON OF THIS LAND.
- Quotable quotes
- Imu mechien
- DNA TEST (The African way) For Tunde Thomas
- The Crowned King
- Scared To Love
- Ballad from the grave
- Fortitude
- THE ROAD TO THE NORTH, LEADS HOME.
- Religion
- Bad Government
- Take Your Bread With Love
- The Sunset.
- Kankara
- One angle from the basket
- The Human Rose
- Regrets, Insecurities and Fears
- Watch Her
- In every shade - the book
- ITEKUN
- The Failed Creation
- New Axis From Excavation
- Uncaging
- The first journey
- Vain Learnings
- Irony of Life
- Take Your Bread With Love
- Prayer
- Teacher
- Risk
- Living Water
- IGBOBONELIMI
- Child Heart
- Myself
- Who are you?
- Only You
- When We Hurt Someone We Love
- Time
- Walking alone..but not
- Trapped
- Dust....an understanding
- LOOSE ME
- I Know Of a Place
- IDAHOMI
- THE MINER FOR THE GOLD
- The Warld
- Sometimes
- Falling star
- I’m Sorry My Friends
- Sowing Creed
- TRACK LEFT UNMARKED (A RUINED GENERATION)
- THE WANDERER
- REVOLUTION
- Failed Fellowship
- Our Darling Lover
- THE MERGE
- XMAS AT BOUNDARY
- WE CAUSE TALL TREES TO SPRANG
- A Beautiful Suicide
- Stupid era
- Drop of tears
- LOVE ON THE WEB
- EVENING SUN
- LOVE EN TOTAL
- Unhappy Me
- ODE TO MAMBILA PLATEAU
- GOD'S HAND
- Let Me
- Bukky-Go-Round
- Stay at Home
- I
- ODE TO ANAMBRA WAXBILL BIRD
- NOT AFRAID (for Lekki massacres)
- Dirty Glasses
- The Call Of Nigeria
- A NEW NIGERIA IS BORN
- October 20, 2020
- THE GOWN OF TROUBLE
- NO MORE SARS NO MORE SWAT NO MORE POLICE BRUTALITY
- Pastoral
- Curiosity
- Top of the Ladder
- ENDING SARS
- BEFORE THE HARD CLAPPING (For those that died of coronavirus)
- Night Night
- MIRAGE ( A sonnet )
- GIRLS HIGH IN DESIRES
- This Time
- Virus
- Independent
- Covid 19
- ELERGY TO JOHN PEPPER CLARK
- MY GIRL IS UPSTREET GIRL
- HEARTS BREAK SLOWLY
- CEASELESS FLOW
- LOVE ME LIKE A RIVER
- HAIL HER
- A TRUE STORY IN THE NORTH
- RAIN HOW SWEET THE SOUND
- THE LAND WITHOUTH EASE
- WHERE IS THE OLD ME?
- A CHILD'S HEART
- OH GARRI, MY GARRI
- I CAN'T MARRY A POETESS
- DESERTED
- LIKE A PREY
- AN UNFORGETTABLE DAY IN THE NORTH
- SOMEWHERE IN THE NORTH
- THE VOID
- REUBEN UGOCHUKWU
- OUR JOY RESTORED
- NIGHTMARE
- THAT SEASONED NIGERIA
- A Squirrel Hunter
- National Youth Service Corps
- FEAR
- GOING HOME
- HOW LONG
- THIS HOUSE IS BREAKING
- NOT BY CHANCE
- IFEOMA
- MARRIAGE OF THE SOUTH
- I DIED YESTERDAY
- SIP FROM THE SEA
- I'm Black
- TRACK LEFT UNMARKED (A RUINED GENERATION)
- It's Raining
- JUST FOR A WHILE
- YOU ARE AMAZING
- CATCH THE LOVE YOUNG
- STREETS OF KAULA
- HAPPINESS
- Wind
- BEAUTIFUL WITCH
- The Architect
- The Earth and the Starry Heavens
- Take me to the altar
- Message to Myself
- I'm that black child
- And we danced not again
- Our Plea
- Doma’s Call
- Pandora
- Sour Libido
- The Lad's Cries
- BLACK'S WITHOUT WHITE'S
- Take a shot now
- The State Of African Leaders
- Knowledge Sleeping in our Department
- Her Voice On The Phone
- ONCE UPON A BEAUTY
- Another great mind lost
- Buried me not with the great
- If I Die Tonight
- Nigeria 🇳🇬
- My Rose 🌹 Lover
- On Love
- Sons of the slave masters
- Great Men Of Valour
- Launched in the deep
- Freedom In View
- Old Mrs Idunnu
- The old us
- Letter To The HEART
- Bullies
- Captive
- SENTIMENTS (A HEART OF BOLD)
- RANDOM FORCE OF EMOTIONS (LOST SOUL)
- Write Me A Poem
- I Have Found You Here
- Her Request
- MY DYING MOTHER
- WAITING FOR THE RAIN
- You don't have to be me to be you
- Fleeting Anguish
- FAKE LOVER
- Morning Glory
- BRUISES
- The Hope of Someday
- The raining days
- SMILE NOW
- A LITTLE PLANT
- Life is like melody
- Who is behind whispering?
- Covid-19's delicacy
- A Life For A Life
- Mama Africa
- Eagle eyes
- I'll write about i
- My mother
- Life in medical school
- What is home?
- My ex
- Ponder
- Lessons from the coronavirus pandemic
- Fragrance
- ASTOUND VISITOR
- Rise Again
- ALKEBULAN
- MEMORIES OF ME
- COVID19
- RONA
- Unspoken words
- Mr president
- Fallen
- BEAUTY OF LOVE
- Your wish
- My first kiss
- Why should I hire you?
- Abiodun
- The Sonnet
- The Light Over Andoni
- Change
- Port Harcourt
- It Is Futile To Sneer At Alaké
- I Won't Forget You Even If You Limp
- Glory
- 1914
- To The End Of The World
- August Child
- A Million Charms
- Her Silence
- Excuses
- Grachi
- Keep Your Love Close And Your Sword Closer
- Dark
- Only The Brave
- All My Loving
- Heroine
- Paradise on Earth
- I Will Be Silent
- RAVISHING RABI
- AFRICA
- TRYING TIME
- 18 plus one...
- The world has gone to war
- Mirage
- APO TO AREA 1
- PANDEMIC
- VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
- The Road
- Depression- A struggle
- Farewell in Harmattan
- The fear of tomorrow
- Stories Untold
- AWAITING HER CUM
- ...Here
- Bread for the wise
- Feel
- The Breeze
- Partial Exit
- Roses in a Vase
- Home
- DARKNESS
- There
- A LETTER TO MY LOVER FROM THE DARK
- THE REALITY OF MY SMILE
- MY WATERMELON
- Even When No One Does
- DEEPEST TOUCH
- THE JOURNEY
- JUSTICE
- ADDICTION
- Depression
- Virtue
- Drenched in esctacy
- The Coin
- IGARA CHICKEN
- OUR HUNCHBACK
- CORRUPTION
- The Stranger I Love
- The Man in my Youth
- My First Beautiful Beast
- Love, what have you done?
- IT IS A LOAN
- The Future
- POLYGAMY
- SAVE THE NATION
- Above the law.
- At our age (1st October)
- Because I Love
- PROSPERITY POWER
- MAINTAINING SUCCESS
- Belief
- m͠o͠t͠h͠e͠r͠s͠
- FAKE LOVE
- UNDER MY COVER
- LET'S UNITE DESPITE OUR DIFFERENCE
- Why you let me down?
- The Girl I'll Marry
- Lists of littlest things
- The Sound of Alert
- ....Serenade
- BIRD IN A CAGE
- HAND OF D
- DEATH
- My world
- STRIVING TO SUCCEED
- Moooooooo.........
- Your Best
- Nature's beat
- What if
- Anger trapped in a jar
- Recognition
- Blade of Secrets
- Akalamagbo
- DONATELLA
- Horrible Sight
- An End of You
- Limerick
- Hate Me Not
- SOLOMON GRUNDY
- Child Seize the Air
- Dignity
- Tragic Comedy
- Faceless
- The Renegade
- Which Way?
- Little world
- Renegade Of June 12
- Ogbanje
- Ode To A Beauty
- A Bicycle Learner
- Across The Niger
- Noises Of The River
- Things that I miss (Poem in four parts)
- Jagaban Borgu
- The Interment
- Lullaby
- The Bargain For Life
- The Locked Country
- LOVE U LIKE THIS
- Never AGAIN
- YOUTHiLITY
- Scars
- Distress
- A Funny Girl
- Ibara in the sun
- Poetry..
- The Black Woman
- Ogori
- Time
- Humble The Poet
- The Path
- Pleasant Sight
- The Wretched Of The Earth
- ROSARY
- REQUIEM MAY 29
- THRENODY
- WHAT IF I SAID I LOVE YOU
- REVENGE TIME
- Far beauty
- Letter To My Son
- A MAN SHOULD BE ALONE
- Drop The Picture, Pick the Nature
- Rain
- Eve of my daughter's wedding
- THE BOOK YOU GAVE ME
- DEAR
- Sonnet XXX: what am I
- Characters from the Grave
- Rainbow: An African Girl
- PRESS ON
- Nostalgia
- Silence
- AFRICA
- The Story In My Head (II)
- Remember Us This Way
- JUSTICE HAS BEEN BUTCHERED
- Why Should I?
- OSELUS (THE POLITICIANS)
- DILEMMA OF HOPE
- THE SOLDIERS HOPE
- THE PROCESSION
- THE MINISTER
- BLAME IT ON THE MONEY
- OUR SARS
- THEY SAY OUR SKIN IS DARK
- THE CONVERSATION
- UNLOCK MON CŒUR.
- DO YOU?
- I, Too
- Ours to Fare, not to Fear
- Imagine
- Butterfly
- RABBIT STEW
- *Fun era* *(Funeral)*
- An hole for you
- O Sambisa
- Never Far Away!
- Ire
- We've been waiting
- My Scars
- Song for things
- The Nigerian Sonnet
- Life & me
- ….. Not like this
- ...By myself
- UNIT TESTS
- Sa Ni Da Pa
- LONELINESS
- SORRY
- MONEY - SAHAJ SABHARWAL
- NOTHING MUCH FOR MINORS
- Relaxation
- EDUCATION
- MOTHER
- RESPECT
- Independent
- Split Horizon
- Not for you...
- SLAVES
- HEALING OF THE SOUL
- The Female of our species
- Democracy in Nigeria
- Die to yourself
- To love the wrong
- Dear Madame
- Makanre!
- At the steps
- To all those who were weird in class
- Ode To Fledging Stars
- Gracious Words
- Bodies
- Girls
- A woman shouldn't stare
- He is Risen
- Tales by Moonlight
- Caribbean Mind
- Time
- A Rainy Night in a Nigerian City
- Struck Dumb
- BEYOUTIFUL
- Who Is Who Africa?
- My Love
- Throwback Thursday
- DARKNESS
- Bring Back Our Girls
- PATHS
- A sick Egret
- I'm All Yours
- I remember
- We Are Never Forgotten
- Happy Sabbath
- Say no to drugs
- Forever And Always
- In Memory of Mrs A. O. Oloniyo
- The Butterfly
- Sometimes You Are
- Have I Told You Yet
- purpose for living?
- THE WAILING PEN
- Since the blood!!!
- Come back!
- Dream right!!!!!
- Bird in Bush
- When life kick you in the mouth!!!
- The Princess
- Young Lady
- Mother Teresa's Anyway Poem
- The Valley of Vision
- I see a new Nigeria
- I Love My Mama
- Agidigbo
- Virus of the Mind
- VACATION
- All About Girls
- A Soldier's Daughter
- I Am Not A Victim Of Breast Cancer
- From My Heart
- The Lonely Guy
- When the going is getting better