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Best Poems Written by Adebayo Adeniyi

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Cattle Egret

CATTLE EGRET
Makinde Adebayo Adeniyi
 
Silken, snow-white feathers
Slender, elegant legs
Lovely long sinuous neck
Beautiful and benignly noble head 
Stout, straight, sharp beaks
 
The cattle egret
Seen in the dry season
In symbiosis
With cattle and the wild
 
Visitors to the quiet countryside
Feeding on ticks and insect
Migrating with the arrival of the rains
To distant arid land
 
The cattle egret
Harmless as a dove
Graceful in flight
Beautiful in sight
 
Her arrival, like the sweet angels
Bring the sandstorms 
Dusty, dense, dry vegetation in cold weather
Interspersed with hot noons
And that sweet aroma of harmattan

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Black Is Gold

Black is Gold
Makinde Adebayo Adeniyi

Speak 
your culture
Wear
your language
Profess
your art
Own
your shadow
Love 
the man in the mirror 

Don't 
change a thing
Black is gold
I am omolúàbí
Omo k'aaro o jire

Footnote: 
Omoluabi - responsible person 
Omo k'aaro o jire - Yoruba

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A New Hope

A New Hope

Straddling waves, changing tides
Turbulent sea, bumpy ride
Still, the anchor holds
To destination progress 

Wake up and smell the morning
It's the dawn of a new day 
Clear blue sky, bright new morn
Sun smiling in sweet splendour 

The aroma of a fresh hope
Greets the nose with lingering incense
Savour the dish
Dine and be full
Life is what we make of it

Arm yourself with knowledge and truth 
Harm ignorance and falsehood
Salt and sugar look alike but
Taste different 
Come with nothing
Fight for everything
Return with spoils

Like the spreading ripples 
At the drop of a pebble
Life is but a riddle

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Expectation

High hopes built on imaginations
And human frailties
A meandering mirage on hot tarmac at noon
A recipe for hunger

In hollow voices, whisper winds of expectations among the trees
Drowned by the reality of sunrise
Gaze upon the hills with starved emotions
And welcome the verity of dawn

Expectations take a dive
When reality fails to thrive
Illusion—the gateway to delusion
Expect nothing, avoid disappointment
Spend and be spent, hope for the best
Find solace within
Peace lies only in the deep

Salad of ignorance, emotions and negativity is a recipe for grief
Nourish not the nattering nitwits
Lest you swim in a pool without water

Intertwine twins of triumph and tragedy—
A constant memento of life and death
Purge yourself of dead weights

Happiness lies within
Only extract the worries
Every success has a process

Out of the belly flows contentment—the
Opium ushering upliftment and fulfilment

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Audacity of Hope

The Audacity of Hope

Day, fresh and fearless;
Night, a distant dream;
The sadness of noon,
gone.

The sun sheds radiance on a new moon,
Crowning the hills in beauty and gold.
In blissful awe, the mountains
Welcome the rains to the green.

Like dew, promiscuous fortunes,
Swallowed by the Yew.
A newborn, birthed with hope.

Desire, dare, seek.
Resign regrets, despise doubt.
Ponder, pause, pray.

Toil in the mines of knowledge,
Where courage silently labours
into victory.

Believe,
Watch the future fall
in line.

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Anaemia

Anaemia

Who cares for her once glorious dreams
Utopia is the new reality
Dopamine-starved citizens gaze forlornly
As blood feverishly flows out
From her gaping wounds

Siamese twins of hunger and anger
Starving her of peace and progress 
In a land of high Testosterone
Security gone AWOL
Citizens on their own
Slowly but steadily
Life ebbs out
Deprived of nutrients and water

Homeland turned fiefdom by renegades
Despising folks, they make foes
Pious laughter loosens frown 
of frail freedom
Blood-sapping East wind
Turns grasslands into deserts

Bruised and beaten by the day
Body and soul in dread of dawn
Conquer battlefields of the mind
With riots of laughter 

This Mephistophelian theatre
With broken social ligaments and
Ruptured moral tendons
Will one day get a transfusion of a new life
Or die slowly and solemnly 
of Anaemia

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Time and Chance

Time and Chance


Time and chance
Faith and fate
Strive succeed, relax regress
The charm of beauty
And the pride of life
Are often the fortress of loneliness
And vast sadness

Time and chance
Faith and fate
The heart is the real deal
Beyond the veil is the seal
For only in you lies the verity
Time is a tyrant
Chance has no script

Time and Chance
Faith and fate
Mingling in the matrix of the mind
Face your fears, feed your faith
Soar like the Eagle, conquer space
Take the plunge, dear to float
In adversary lies victory

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Cancer

CANCER

It began as a swelling
Localized swelling
Painless at first
Then painful

Then came a period of recession
Oh!
What a sweet relief
Wellness reigns again

Then again the swelling
Only bigger now
Persistent
Bigger
And bigger

They say its cancer
And it has come to stay
No cure, they say

The cancer has metastasized
Through lymphatic vessels
To distant regions
Where it eventually
Commits apoptosis.

The conqueror
Has conquered itself
Relief for the conquered
Succour has come
Finally.

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Lost

Lost 
Makinde Adebayo Adeniyi

Tears in the rain 
Like rivulets running down my face 
Forming a pool at my feet
Lonely river flowing into 
the open arms of the sea
Lost in the depth of the deep

Then the sun takes it all up
And down it comes again
Tears in the rain
Lost in the torrent 
Lonely river flowing into 
The open arms of the Sea.

The ship is lost at sea
Tossed around by the waves
Broken to pieces by the storm
The anchor no longer holds
Mayday! Mayday!! Mayday!!!

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Old buddy


One Saturday in a fest
I met an old buddy in a vest
Who was mighty grateful to bond
At the side of an old pond
And tell stories of the wild west