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WAVES AND ILLUSION

Ko’si ewu loko Longe 
Longe fun ara re ni Ewu 

It’s at a start when I call on my soul,my flesh and my masculinity to take beyond the disappointment of my actions and bear the consequences of my reactions 
For I’ve redeemed my sweet,thick voice for the echoes of the other world and silence my pains 

Irin Ajo mi dabi Oko to ku so’ju Igbo 
I’ve searched for a wanderer like me but I meet with only the lost ones
In this little surface of my healthy heart has been stabbed but not bleeding 
I couldn’t comprehend if I’m the Sacrifice or the Savior

Bo pe titi 
Akalolo a pe Baba 
Sugbon Omije ti le di agbara ojo 
Ki salubata mi si ti ba lo 
Ki arami si ti tutu bi ewe oju omi 

Should have been Hello from the other side cause I saw my hell burning so low through the lens of my blind eyes 

Can I even cry?
Yes cause that’s the only myth to secure my Might.

Time's Tender Tidings

You look not your age, due time knocks...
Beauty is key to the prompt guise locks,

Off eyes gauge that seek thy real face
Value, be known to mind's pencil trace.

Aging stories are not cook up
To scare the young, but to check them up:

For young people to live the best,
Before old age takes account for rest;

Cum benefits on what to feast,
And be careful of the youthful beast.

From my bottomless mind, I toast!
To grace and peace of heavenly HOST:

In its warmest kind, to keep gay-
Your body, soul and spirit all day...

That joy, love and money keep fit
Thy weaken loopholes warming to quit...

The existing trial and error,
Everyone chase on earth with terror...

In struggle and strive for oneself;
Keep fit as you shine stars for yourself.

First love's treats and delight are young:
Ever apt and excellently strong.

Distance may set us far off sight,
But intact memory lane, ease plight.

Ojo Oladayo, be glad!
Birthdays are never been to be sad.

Happy birthday dear, age off hell..
And grow to fulfill destiny well.

Por Favor, No Me Ames - Please, Don'T Love Me

No cantes para mí, vida mía.
No cantes más para mí.
Cuando tu ojo ya no llore,
porque ya no soy,
No cantes para mí, mi amor.

No pienses en mí, querida.
No pienses en mí nunca mas
Cuando sueñas con otro 
y mi vida ya no es,
no pienses en mi, mi amor.

No me ames, cielo mia.
Favor, no me ames más.
Te he dado todo 
y no tengo más.
No me ames más, mi amor.



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Don't sing for me, My Life.
Sing no more for me.
When your eye no longer cries,
because I am no more,
Don't sing for me, My Love.

Don't think about me, Dear.
Do not think about me ever more.
When you dream of another 
and my life is no more,
don't think about me, My Love.

Don't love me, My Heaven.
Please don't love me anymore.
I have given you everything 
and I have no more.
Don't love me anymore, My Love.


06/08/2021

Ojo Caliente

Ojo Caliente


Call on John to
submerse me in the 
Holy waters of the 
Ojo Caliente

Cleanse me deep
In the high desert heat
Hidden in  New Mexico 

Where the ancients came to
breathe new life from beneath
the clear clean springs of life

I am weary of the journey
I am weak from wont

I hunger for the feast of thought
And thirst for the first of 
The newness of things yet
To come

Drench me  in rejuvenating
Imaginings 
Give me flight
    And second sight

Call on John to submerse me
Whose voice 
Beckoned Christ 


David J Walker

Nature of Reunion

My heart roared like an hungry lion
In haste for prey to feed my roaring heart
But tedious to capture
The Lion and  the Jewel departed for nine years
Without saying goodbye

I wandered around like a single pendulum
Wandering helplessly like an untimely killed ghost
Dying every minutes of unconsciousness
Missing my irreplaceable jewel
Thus, living an incomplete being

Ajike Mi owon,
Nature brought you back to me unexpectedly
Eleyinju ege
Adu mara dan
Igi leyin ogbami

Ajike, the spellbinding of all women
Loved by nature
Prettier than diamond
Valuable than gold
Cherished than sliver
Worthful than bronze

Ajike oni wura
Iru re sowon lawujo eniyan
Amon lewa omidan
Nigba ojo, nigba erun,
Mi o ni fi o sile
Arewa Obinrin ti wu gbogbo okunrin fi'saya
Arewa to ju arewa lo
Oniwa tutu bi Adaba
With trust, comes peace of mind
Nature and i will love you till eternity.
 Ajike mi owon.

The Falcon

A Falcon soared skyward
Gracing and inspiring the world.

She dived from the peak
And attacked with her beak.

She poises her wings
And pierces the mind with a wink.

Her eyes are like two jewels in the sky.
No doubt, she is the Queen of the sky.

The tree is her place of rest
Above the stars is set her nest.

Emulate her diligence.
And never play with her intelligence,

If only I could be your falconer,
I would hunt your admirers.

Oh take me! Carry me on your wings
To the sky where Angels sing.

Dedicated to Ojo Ifedayo

Only Tomorrow

As I go...
As I stride past the bridge with a twenty litre jerrican on my hand
I dream of tomorrow where hard soil will be like sand
Where in my dreams we have enough
Where in my dreams soft is never rough
I speed away; not to anger mama
Then when am rich I'll live in Alabama
Ojo, forget the pains, softly says the river
But my thoughts doubt my spirit and my body shivers
As I walk back to our manyatta
I know one day my emaciated bones will grow fatter
ONLY TOMORROW....

My Expression

M-y
E-xpression
L-ets
V-erse
I-mplement
E-uphoria

O-f
J-oyful
O-ccasion

Topic: Birthday of Melvie Ojo (December 21) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic

Let Victory Intensify Ecstasy

M-omentous
E-vents
L-et
V-ictory
I-ntensify
E-cstasy

O-nce
J-oy
O-pens

Topic: Birthday of Melvie Ojo (December 21)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic

One Joyful Occasion

J-ust
E-agerly
N-egate
N-ot
Y-our

O-ne
J-oyful
O-ccasion

Topic: Birthday of Jenny P. Ojo (September 18) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic

Iseyin

ISEYIN MY TOWN
If you don't know,
'Emi lomo ISEYIN  ORO
'Oro omo EBEDI MOKO.
I know my town, I love my town,
I celebrate my town, as great town to everyone, I praise my town, and I cheer my town,
and I try to spread its fame,
ISEYIN!_ISEYIN!!
'Ilu eye kiki aponle,
'ibi ti oju ti buni toju enu lo
'bere ki o towoo.
I trust my town with his pride
I boost my town, and I want to do my part,
To make Iseyin praised, from the depth of every heart,
 ILU MOKI
ISEYIN oro-Omo Ebedi moko
'nibi ti ewe nje ariyeke
'ti popo nje belewo
'ti igi nje oluwaran
'ti agbado ojo nje topabodi,
please let me sing this town .
And preach it to my people,
as I think my fellow should do,
Am very proud of you my town,
I  want to help you rise,
to be d finest city, as 
side of Paradise.
'Eni ban fe aso 'tata
'ti ile Yoruba
'ki o kori si ISEYIN,
'nibi won ti hun gida ninu Aso-Ofi.
All ISEYIN SON(s)
it's good thing to get together,
to make a great big show for our great town.
Good bye to all the knockers,
and welcome to booste crowd,
let get out and hustle,
for a big and better town,
ISEYIN.
ABIODUN OM'BADA OMO ISEYIN ORO

Ezi Enyi Ka Nwanne

Ezi enyi amaka na uwa
Ezi enyi ka nwanne ojo
Lezie enyi gi anya oge nile
Ahabula ya ka onwu na nsogbu.


Owere enyi ka nwanne ma
Obu ikwu na ibe gi na uwa 
Mgbe nsogbu di ono ya,
Na oganihu ono gi na akuku
Lezie enyi gi anya nke oma.


Okeosisi na agba egwu na ukwu ya
Ka ona enye nsogbu make ka na
Ukwu ga eji ya out ubochi na abia
Ogologo ndu ka madu nile na ayo
Lezie enyi gi anya ka isi hu owu gi anya.


Ekwe kwala ka ihire mee enyi gi
Kpowe ya ha okuku is ekpo nwa ha
Tinyere ya aka na oge nsogbu
Make na ezi enyi ka nwanne.

Diario Del Fuego -Fragmento-

¿Qué nos deja esta lucha con el fuego? Hay un ojo colgado en la pared, un reloj que promete cumplir con su función en todas las plazas del mundo, un gobierno de la locura, ¡y hasta un alfabeto! Y el terror que sonríe como una muchacha que se mira al espejo para pintarse los labios, así es de coqueto el terror...

Mother Celestial

The night, with everything humid
Took us to the balcony
Current of fresh air, the moon also ripe

Amidst queries – we reached about stars
Why the luminance, clusters, variance?
Non astrologer, She did a best

But one premise struck
Each man has one up there
She answered – to everywoman too

Where is mine?
That, she pointed: the brightest.
Why . . . what about yours then?

Mine is in you, son
The place in your father’s house.
And She was my mother!


(Tribute to Elizabeth Adetutu Ojo)

Ojo Caliente

Where the chug of boiling water pumps
and spills its acids, oxides,
to dye the ice-slabbed hillside orange-red
desert colors, we loll naked in a pool
 lulled half-asleep; first drugged in a broth
of minerals shot from the earth´s core,
then dragged down to a nether place
where the chill of air is salt, sunwarmth, sugar,
until what is known is only what is sensed:
far down below there´s no stations
of the seasons, no days passing, only this
thrashing deeper, coupling, uncoupling
in unsunned wetness where all beginnings are.

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