Come, let’s follow the yellow in the rainbow Mind not the tremor but keep firm your grip Even if the clouds were to shake As if their wears were to tear off Even if the ground quakes As if its pillars are pulling apart With a firm grip on hope No matter how tiny is… Continue reading CAPE OF GOOD HOPE by Dominic Ayegba Okoliko
Author: Dominic Ayegba Okoliko
Dominic is a nascent Nigerian writer with interests in poem, prose and essays. His other literary works are on this site as well as on Afreecan Read, Medium, Pulse.ng, Poemhunters, myNews24.com, and workspayce.ng. When he’s not writing, Dominic engages in humanitarian cause and works with Human Rights and Conflict Resolution Centre in Abakaliki.
TO BE A MAN by Dominic Ayegba Okoliko
If your idea about being a boy Is to cause another a boil, Then you’ve got it all wrong “Cause you’re no strong; Not inside and not outside. If being a guy means to you To have as many baes screwed Until you have no need of the loo, You might need to have your… Continue reading TO BE A MAN by Dominic Ayegba Okoliko
FOOLISH ME! by Dominic Ayegba Okoliko
I toil night and day leaving no room for rest; For I thought to myself, ‘Rest is for those whom idleness have impressed’. So I turned an owl at night and a jaguar during the day But who gets to enjoy the toils? When hours of labour take its toils? Foolish me! I have fancy… Continue reading FOOLISH ME! by Dominic Ayegba Okoliko
Phenomenal by Dominic Ayegba Okoliko
Phenomenal, That’s what you all are; Women of substance With shining earthstar, Whose fragrance seasons and sweetens Our earth dome full of jolly And sometimes teens in their folly In the near and the far, Nothing can lower your bar. For by far, You’re the purest of the Earth’s jasper When the earth hurts, Who… Continue reading Phenomenal by Dominic Ayegba Okoliko
THE DEAD WE HOLD IN MEMORY by Dominic Ayegba Okoliko
The dead we hold in memory As today tells their story Our hearts and minds hear it again Reliving them in prayerful pain Under the shadow of earth’s drear Our mourn’ shows forth care The dead we hold in memory As today tells their story They once shared our lives With colours of love and… Continue reading THE DEAD WE HOLD IN MEMORY by Dominic Ayegba Okoliko
PRODIGAL MERCY by Dominic Ayegba Okoliko
The preacher once told a story Pretty much about our affairs so gory It’s the tale of a prodigal son But isn’t it also of the prodigality Of the father’s generosity? For which father would stand a son Poking him in the eyes While his sun still shines in the sky? Or, which man would… Continue reading PRODIGAL MERCY by Dominic Ayegba Okoliko
WINDS, WILD AND WHIRL by Dominic Ayegba Okoliko
Let winds be wild and whirl blowing from the far west caress me to wild and send my worries to rest Let it blow me like a balloon to beyond the moon where my feelings fiercely fired like a hurricane by cares weighing in tones would cease to whisper tunes There, a sweet peaceful hallowed… Continue reading WINDS, WILD AND WHIRL by Dominic Ayegba Okoliko
NEW YEAR by Dominic Ayegba Okoliko
Let all hearts break into joy With gratitude boiling Beyond containing measure For the great pleasure Of witnessing a New Year Like a sweet soft flowing streams The year has swept our feet Washing us with elation And drawing close our dreams For greater actualisations Like mist amidst the greens Yesteryear has disappeared Into past… Continue reading NEW YEAR by Dominic Ayegba Okoliko
WHEEL IT AWAY by Dominic Ayegba Okoliko
On the wings of the wind Wheel it away 2016 and all its strings Toss it away into past days Let it down at the occident With the slow death of the day And on the dock of the dawn Break it upon me, 2017 Come right on With the crescent birth of the morning… Continue reading WHEEL IT AWAY by Dominic Ayegba Okoliko
MY HEART’S JASPER by Dominic Ayegba Okoliko
The world might be complex. But I know a thing or two: In the whole of the known multiplex, You’re a star with a million dazzling glue. There aren’t too many of your type. Yet among the few, you’re a unique tycoon. You bubble with shining rays, And this, you’ve shone on my grey ways.… Continue reading MY HEART’S JASPER by Dominic Ayegba Okoliko