WE HAVE RETURNED
We have returned, From a no-named world where skinny brown trees of muse bore trite words to feed starved lungs The performance of golden sandstorms Roasted-looking leaves rise and fall...
NIGHT WATCH
They set out at midnight An hour after 12pm Their lantern shone a dim bright They walked in silence, seven of them Bare footed, head bowed The owl has hooted...
WOMAN OF MY DREAMS
I always imagined what love felt like, Even though I never really believed in it, I mean,why spend a whole lifetime with one woman?, When I could easily have another...
PARADOX OF EXISTENCE
Time flies, men rise Words said, truth heard Less proofs Husbands. . . . Less fathers Wives. . . . Less mothers Students. . . . Less scholars Caveats abound,...
VANITAS VANITATUM
Yes! I am now in power My house is too small, i need new one There must be a garden at the extreme An hedonist way of life I want...
WHEN I AM DEAD
Prologue: Dear child, if you’re reading my biography Sometime in the near future, When I’m dead and dailies are eulogizing me, And you pick up this poem to read, Know...
LOVE ME (A TRIPLE ACROSTIC)
LOVE ME was a winning entry written by Akinrinola Barnabas for the Words Rhymes & Rhythm College of Poetry as a classwork POETRY QUIZ (ACROSTIC POETRY) on the 24th of November 2014.
A DOUBLE ACROSTIC FOR ERIMMA
Erimma, the cradle bundle that cuddles my firE Rising from the welling springs of the Palm's fibeR In and from the cotyledons of her morning's potpourrI May your ASSets yet...
THEY WILL PAY
They will pay for this!!! For as many that wine and dine and feast On my tears that tangoed on tarred ground In a land where the sun has no...
A WORD FOR THE FUTURE
In this our idle generation of whiners We have so many boastless doers Sheltering saplings in our forest Daily, their leaves they invest I see Olumide Olulu Holloway Lights word-candles...