OH, AFRICA EMINENCE – OPE DUROTOYE

She is Emerging! Her eminence is hither! Her greatness is now! Histories began with her, She’s pioneer of great innovations, The world revolves around her creatives, Her knowledges, alluring the universe, In her freedom, many were her renovations, In her services, many were her artifacts, Worthy were her works, Shes mother breeder of humanities, until …

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POEM: Dear future Me

First of all I hope you live Long enough To read this I hope you get up From this And don't follow My footsteps Into giving up I hope you learn To make it On your own For this my spirit yearns I pray you live long Not just exist But take form, belong Stay …

POEM: Work in Progress

Miss Fit (2020) I am ashamed because I stutter when I speak My words fall over each other and my tongue is weak I stammer and slip over sentences that don't quite make sense I question my worth before YOU I mean if I cannot string together a sentence Then how am I supposed to …

POEM: We are One

We look different, but we’re all born the same, We didn’t get to choose our family, face, or name, This life is a test; the world is our real estate, Yet, we disregard equity to stand apart and discriminate, Blinded by fortes, or suppressed by dearth, We rely on bystanders to estimate our worth, Striving …

POEM: Service!

- Isitalks All I do is serve... That's how I get all I have I am like a sheep Residing in His ship That's why I cannot be ill Everytime I look up to the hill He would always heal... The Lord is my strength💪 His love has no length How else could I have …

POEM: Beware of your friends!

- Isitalks You must have heard this line over a thousand times, I know. Please, hear it again!!! Who else has noticed? That the people you surround yourself with Your friends, your circle Your peers. .....they most times only want to see the YOU they met at first The don't want to see the progressive …

POEM: A PEEP TO SLUM

Opeyemi Durotoye Go see them in their nativity Where they carry out activity They were, but naive kitty During days so litty Feed bitty. Pray to 'bit the sand' in jiffy For this had made them Pussy Satiation was tricky Not Now, days gritty And knotty. Living as no class Without recommendation glass Nothing lost, …

POEM: Seeking Virtue

John Adams Long gone are the bright and simple days, Forgotten are the good old righteous ways, There’s no fine line between wrong and right, This era we live in is an illustration of plight, Pride, envy, gluttony, greed, lust, sloth, and wrath, Evil resides at each corner and every path, The truth is buried, …

POEM: SIC

She is Sic, Who and Who is to blame She had no symptom lake Everything goes wrong at her collapse Medications become futile Physicians are mute for this is Strange. She is sic, Cities droughting No faces Delighting For safety, everyone knitting Knowledge banks drowning Power houses smothering For this lethal is Sucking She is …

POEM: SHE IS IN NEED

Opeyemi Durotoye Cities is become isolation Fear in the spine Faith shivering Faces shrink Walking with dearth of thoughts And no spring of it cause. Is this not Curse? Is this not Cost? Is this not Lust? Is this not War? Is this not Worse? Is this not Wrath? Who are the inventor? Who are …

POEM: JINX

It is not what we pray for But it what eventually happen We don’t want to see it But we always want to employ it It doesn’t just jump on men But men jump on it How can it be? …Without a track record? Re visit your track record You jumped on it In unconscious …

Votre intégrité d’abord

We all want it Not all have it We love to see it Not all love to show it We are hungry for it Not all feed on it You only need to see it in others You've forgot, Others want to see it in you too That quality of completeness First to all, second …

POEM: Mirror

Standing before lengthy tumbler Painter of best artistic version Not a carbon copy Rather, oneself from the other side. Seeing the good and the worse In person standing before you What you see really matters Either good or worse. A time for quick reflect How fast you’ve chosen one Pause, remember it is you …From …

POEM: Truth Be Told II

None call for justice Nor any pleadth for truth Your feet run into evil In haste to shed innocent blood On your crooked path You know not the way of peace You behold obscurity for brightness Wallowing in gross of gross darkness You refuse to rise to the path of light Salvation is far from …

POEM: Truth be told I

Everyone finds it irresistible listening to truth But ready not to verbalize the truth Lying life less in the abdomen But couldn’t express in audacity For there is no conviction To justify the alteration of distrust Truth be told, Our society is becoming unconstructive And everyone is undisturbed As if nothing is happening Abnormalities fast …

POEM: En-Grace

Never to be forsaken Either to be qualified Nor to be forgotten Not to be merited But to be disgrace Unmerited favour A privileged heritage Deposition of greatness Virtue from God The Spirit of Grace Why the hustle? Why the eye overhaul? Seeking for men’s approval Just to be favored? Can we find grace? Election …

The Soul of Gerontius – John Henry Newman

I went to sleep; and now I am refresh’d, A strange refreshment: for I feel in me An inexpressive lightness, and a sense Of freedom, as I were at length myself, And ne’er had been before. How still it is! I hear no more the busy beat of time, No, nor my fluttering breath, nor …

POEM: Hope – Victoria Egba

I gave a fresh breathe of warm air, Blowing the dust and cobwebs From my sweet Bible and book.Turning through the pages of hope, And the books of visions and goals. I ask the dumbest question on earth. "How did I miss it?" My first name was fun and the other flex. Moving from white …

POEM: Not Until I Realized

When things go haywire I strategically re-wire Normalcy can be admire For me to attract glorifier My ways seems light My timing seems right My look seems bright My opinion seems first Turing crack wall Into colourful pattern mall Crisis into rises raw Shame into fame hall Oh it’s a job well done Oh my …

THE HEART MAN🖤🖤

Ifekoya Toluwalonimie The heart of man, desperately wicked The heart of man, no one can tell The heart of man, conceives a great deal The heart of man, such an evil tool The heart of man, so corrupt and selfish The heart of man, a pre-evil The heart of man, despite its evils The heart …

BROOK

What more can I say Just to open the bay Wandering on the way Confusion on ray Nay, it’s not a dream Another entire realm Meant to be the beam Not ready to Glean Not too obvious Sham Ream of savorless entity   Gritty to be nitty Devised to be firm entity Solemn assembly lofty …

TOMORROW

Ifekoya Toluwanimie I don't know about tomorrow I don't what it holds Neither do I know what it'll throw. Nor if I'll be in the fold Will I be at the front row? Or miss and be told? What about the sorrows? and all of the golds? Out in all the mysteries and distant new …

You are UNIQUE!

Ifekoya Toluwanimi Everyone has a unique purpose Everyone is created for a different purpose A blade though very sharp cannot cut a tree An axe though very strong cannot be used to trim the fingernail Don't look down on anybody, cos we are created to be different and unique. Never intimidate anyone or feel you …

Poem: SPLASH

Opeyemi DUROTOYEYou have possessed my Heart,I am being drown with your fartYou are such a good art, and dartHow long will I held this fact.I have kept it so long, and no longer again,Thought its never late to wait for the right momentBefore the sun sets, It been too lateDoes love have timing?Is patience not …

The Cold Within

By James Patrick Kinney Six humans trapped by happenstance In bleak and bitter cold. Each one possessed a stick of wood Or so the story’s told. Their dying fire in need of logs The first man held his back For of the faces round the fire He noticed one was black. The next man looking …

Broken NOT BROKEN

Opeyemi DUROTOYEI may show you the path, i can't propel you to him you have to do that with what you have. Explain to him how you feel about what seems to be real but challenging your future. Tell him everything with exception of one. He is eager to hear you. Do it right NOW!!! …

DECISION

Ifekoya Toluwanimi Everyday, we make decisions Daily we're confronted with options; We must choose one or the other We cannot have both Leaving with options either; Being bitter or being better Indifference or decisiveness Lukewarmness or enthusiasm Giving up or giving in Security or risk Coping with evil or overcoming evil Blending in or standing …

TRUST HIS ACT

All things work for our good Though sometimes we cant see how they would Struggles that break our hearts in two Sometimes blind us to the truth Our Father knows what's best for us His ways are not our own So when your pathway grows dim And you just dont see Him Remember you're not …

CONTRAVENTION – Morning Hour Day 2

Thirdly, for you to prevail in prayer, WE MUST BE DESPERATE FOR ANSWERS: The word desperation is not just a negative word but it’s rather depends on how you use it. The question is what are you desperate for? Desperation makes your expression bold enough in faith. Its helps your mentality and allow your focus …

CREED II

In Triune God, I believe In God our father, I believe In Christ the Son, I believe In the Holy Spirit, I believe In resurrection, I believe Life everlasting Life eternal Life in resurrection Life in crucifixion Life in jubilation Descended into darkness Ascended with light Our judge, our defender He rose in glorious life …