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Re-Visiting Nigeria

(Holding fire and water together) 
I don't know why the rain keeps writing the 
name of Nigeria on the ground in every corner. 
I don't know why we are this broken and 
tortured like the...

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Categories: dele, africa,
Form: Blank verse

Beastiology

Ooh a triangular prism made out of eighteen purple sashed curtains. Wow. Movement. Vortex of a synopsis and a synchronised swirling pattern. When a pea jumps into a swimming pool and performs the backflip it...

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Categories: dele, autumn,
Form: I do not know?

Ollie

"Why you sitting out here Dele?",
She squeaked.
"You gonna be those tiny bitters' food!",
She exclaimed.
If there ever was more to Ollie,
It'd be more squeaks and exclaims.
I sits on the stairs out on the porch.
She makes to...

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Categories: dele, death, grief, health, mental illness, old, poems,
Form: Free verse

Python Dance

after Odumegwu Ojukwu
after Chinua Achebe 
after Christopher Okigbo 
after Dele Giwa
after Kofi Awoonor
after Kwame Nkrumah 
after Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
after Nelson Mandela 
after Wole  Soyinka 
after Leopold Senghor 
after Flora  Nwapa

I am part of...

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Categories: dele, absence, abuse, africa, , western,
Form: Blank verse

Dele(For Dele Giwa 19th Year Remembrance)

Lingering  will it be in our memories
As we memorise the memorable
Memoir of the memorial
Of  Dele Giwa

A letter engraved in a Bomb
Plucked away our prolific 
And dogged pen pusher

Dele, A News Watcher 
Became a...

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Categories: dele, anniversary, death, inspirational, power, , memorial,
Form: I do not know?