Elegy for Tobi Dike
...A life that's fading is a flame that's burning out,
I, a mortal, lament the departed soul.
Tobi Dike, your light extinguished—halfway unburned,
leaving us in darkness
—with only memories to hold....
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Categories:
tobi, death,
Form: Other
IT’S YOUR NAME
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With nothing, I pride myself as Olakunle,
Who makes moves,
Overcome challenges and kore Dele.
Truly, Oluwanifemi
Even death whispers; Ikukoyi.
The future is secured, for the gods have Tir...
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Categories:
tobi, confidence, creation, culture, devotion,
Form: Free verse
The House of Light
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The House of Light
Bountiful stacks
Showcasing illuminating scripts
Spiraling out shapes and forms
Churning myths and facts
All bounded in suited attires
Now a budding epiphany
Enticing en...
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Categories:
tobi, creation, inspirational,
Form: Narrative
A Paragon For Nigerian Youths
...Like a cheetah that's a natural born sprinter
Tobi Amusan is the world fastest female sprinter
And like an American Quarter Horse
Tobi Amusan has become a discourse
Having proven to be the worl...
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Categories:
tobi, celebrity, faith, inspiration, sports,
Form: Rhyme
Alabi Tobi -- You'Re Someone To Cover Miles With
...To the loyalty that never fail
Counting not thy own alone
The weight of loss or gain's bail
Though situation at times is unknown
But to thou, thy stand, no way jail
To the craziness that ev...
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Categories:
tobi, 1st grade, africa, age,
Form: Rhyme
The 12 Point 12 Secs Fastest Woman Alive
...THE 12.12 SECS FASTEST WOMAN ALIVE
Life exudes in it's harshest of complexities:
I have built this machine with bleeding hands,
shaped her to slice the wind,
shined her as melanin with polish a...
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Categories:
tobi, 1st grade,
Form: Free verse
Champion Again
...??CHAMPION AGAIN!!!
Common oath with the Gold,
She's two decades old,
Browny hair, tough skin dark toned,
Tobi's horse-wheel pull a two wheeled cart,
Breaks another record and grease our hear...
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Categories:
tobi, 1st grade, celebrity, for
Form: Rhyme
This House Is Not For Sale
...THIS HOUSE IS NOT FOR SALE
This house is not for sale-
beware of my kitchened wife,
beware of Emeka, my son
& Tobi, my Son-in-law;
even Musa, my gate man.
Everyone is a thief in his room,
ev...
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Categories:
tobi, absence, abuse, anger,
Form: Blank verse
I Celebrate You My Friend
...The year that is about to make its last appearance
before it dies and is buried to be only given a place
in the history of our existence has brought ?e joy,
l° shall therefore, out of obligati...
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Categories:
tobi, adventuregod, people, god, love,
Form: ABC
The Honeymoon
...The honey moon[Alliteration]
Tobi takes Tope to Thailand in a top class Train,
which makes Mike to marry Michelle
in Cynthia`s crystalline church,
This baffles Becky Baker but,
Propels Peter Park...
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Categories:
tobi, wedding
Form: Alliteration
A Kiss To Build a Dream On . . .
...From Garden of Eden through Thebes
A dream was built of an Adam and an Eve
Of it the bone of an Adam, comes that of an Eve
A helper, the name giveth to her by the most High.
And to forget not t...
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Categories:
tobi, allegory, devotion, love, passion,
Form: Free verse