BACK IN THIS PLACE by Samuel Amazing Ayoade
I’m back in this place where the moon rejoices at the hearing of melodious lullabies sung into the cranium of crying babies who are stuck to mother’s backs at the...
OKIGBO SENT WORDS by Samuel Amazing Ayoade
Okigbo sent words to your majesty From the royal clan of Igbo Kwenu of the world yonder We seek change and not amnesty I, Okigbo sent these words. Concentration leaks...
ZOMBIE STREETS IV by Samuel Ayoade
Very soon, vultures will gather here To pick up living cadavers that make cadences of deep snore. They'd smile at the crimson coloured caffeine dripping from the dark side of...
THE CROSS by Samuel Amazing Ayoade
The Cross was here, And there it came Behind you, before you. It went everywhere, And ended sin's thuds. But woe is he Who on a cross Is hanged like...
THE AFRICAN WOMAN by Samuel Amazing Ayoade
Epitome of virtue I see, Building a house of fortune icy, Foundation of moderacy and modesty. Even without amnesty, The African woman remains loyal. Her blackness lightens the darkness, For...
MY CHAMELEON MISTRESS by Samuel Amazing Ayoade
Your lady came bleating instead of singing Made me to remember- That her best friend as a child was Old grandpa’s nanny goat They followed eachother Around in the rounds surrounded...
WOUNDED SOUL by Samuel Amazing Ayoade
Let these lines be broken. Sob. Let them be meaningless. Stop. For they flow from the depth Of a wounded soul flopped. Why scrubbed thou me Against a stone so...
A SONNET FOR MY LOST SISTERS by Samuel Amazing Ayoade
Are they so soon forgotten? Just like a rootless tree on a bare rock. Are they so soon forgotten? Chibok fruits plucked and packed. like fish stock. Bring back our...
OLA (WEALTH)
Alade! Why have you secured your soul With greed? Hunting the shadows of fortune, You have acquired doom From the fading bloom. Ayoade! The creator Sketched treasures on your palm,...