CALL TO THE SPIRIT the air danced lights dimmed into circle of gold she lay slumbering from the haze of lights the pictures danced and a voice invited come let’s take a walk from the meadows of your mind so you can learn your long sip from the nectar of creation sail into light from [...]
This city, their Lagos;hills of refuse;my mind bemusedby the dizzying sway;of hips astraythis city:bedlam’s nightmarethe scream mingledby the conductor’s roarif only you could sing a song! one innocent look,the vendors’ meleea scream and crashmoney and owner forcibly divorcedby the fingers of petty felony the towers of concrete,showers of greedshowers of moanshum of human beesover the [...]
You know, one of these days I am going to take my courage in my hands and actually do the unthinkable again. Attempt to self-publish.
BLACK SAINTLINESS I am black,not of the darkness,but evidence of samenessOf the Maker’s wheel.not condemned,but redeemed,from the yoke of ignorance. They treat me with dread,fear to give me bread,and leave me as dead,my tears are white,my blood is red,my intellect as sharp, In every flower,through the winds,into every depthacross the meadowsI see HIS greatnessand in [...]
When we metFor the first timeHe said: He liked my brown eyesAnd dimpled cheeksWent to the elders paid the bride prizewe moved in together joined in the danceAt the village square Thirty years laterI still have brown eyesthe square is emptyas my heart. After seven yearsof pounding the streetshe got a joband went homefor the [...]
Eni wandered dispiritedly into the porter's lodge and checked if she'd been given accommodation. The porters looked through a list and nodded that she had the same place she had been allocated when she first arrived. Some students had their temporary allocation changed. Eni didn’t even think she had any preference. It is just a bed she told herself anyway. So [...]
Writing is the starting point from which all goodness (and crappiness) grows. Every writer knows that writing a book isn’t an easy process, and neither is it always enjoyable, but it is one of life’s most satisfying achievements.
It rained the day the bailiff camethe clouds huddled togetherhis knock was muffledby the rumbles of thunderand the cries of the children With the moon in his eyes.he stared at the childrenwith hunger in their belliesin a croak he announced‘Summons to a divorce’Something stuck in his throat her hand in the potheart in her eyes, [...]
Xmas.. in my village as I remember I watch preparations now for Xmas and I keep remembering how it used to be for me in my village when this season comes around. Dusty roads, my hands and feet bitterly coal. That is when the log fires in the room is appreciated. Most homes then generally [...]
She had a reason to lovemore years had passed when she saw himshe held him in her dreamsthrough bouts of doubtwhen she could barely understandthe blowsbut she saw himin her dreamsand held him as starwhen they threw her outof the closed circle of queens tohis majestyher forbidden dreamsroamed the wildsof her heartabandoned and reviled He stood [...]
