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 </div><p></p>ogun omode ki i se ere fun ogun odun’,<br>
Oro yeye ni eyi si mi.<br>
Mo se iranti awon elegbe mi lati ikoko-<br>
Ebi, aini ati adanu.<br>
Orin ebi inu ni a n ko sun.<br>
Ifajuro ni ami idanimo mi.<br>
Won ba mi je, a si jo d’agba.<br>
Mo je omo odun ogorun o le mefa,<br>
Laipe, ma si lo eefa ni iwon ese,<br>
pelu awon elegbe mi.
<p><strong>***Dialect: Yoruba</strong></p>
<blockquote><p>Third Prize Winner, <a href="http://college.wrr.ng/poetry-competition-for-worldpoetryday-2016-win-airtime/" target="_blank">Poetry Competition for #WorldPoetryDay 2016</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Translation:<br>
TWENTY CHILDREN<br>
‘Twenty children do not play for twenty years’,<br>
Those were mother’s words to me.<br>
I recall with nostalgia my playmates from infancy-<br>
Hunger, lack and loss.<br>
We dined and slept to tunes hummed from within,<br>
Grimace was my my trademark.<br>
They bask and grew with me through childhood.<br>
I am 86,<br>
Soon to use the suffix of my age in feet,<br>
with my friends from childhood.</p>
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