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Best Poems Written by Olusegun Ojo

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I Sing Africa

All's not about Darfur
I've seen it, eerie winds
Moonlight through our thatch

We kissed round, one *palmie gourd
Kigali was but a miss
Waist-beads - beats to love

Have you heard the talk-drum,
*Fela's horns of brass,
Or the *Aladuras' joy of Alleluia?

My grandmother still walks miles
Just because her forbears did,
And shame on malaria

For the dearth of men
Oh, on Mandela's earth
Of Soyinka's nobel ideas

Africa - a big breast,
the good, the bad, the ugly. . .
all, as sucklings!


*palmie - palm wine
*Fela - Celebrated afrobeat musician
*Aladura - a popular african instituted christian sect noted for heavy prayers

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My Chant and the World

I have led the tunnels
Depth of shadows
The shivers of dread
I can reach the lights and zenith

I have lost you
The things I did wrong
And those I failed to do
I will find love aright

I have found difference
In both the locus – 
And its spatial might
I know the way of bridges

I am now so naked
Temptations and broken will
All have indeed sinned
I – by God – will make saint

Our sun is hotter
The ice melting, oceans rising
The earth is ill, her healing
In changing the world!

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Thirteen Takes

When caught mid-flight
End to bloat against gravity
Thanks, rejection is not of the earth

My eyes are welling
I won’t hold back with shame 
Even warriors often times loosen, weeping

A good mother’s breast thrust
Not in for the oldest trade 
Gives the child, from infant, the best trust 

The sexton is a pagan
Lushness of the hashish field
Makes his story from Canaan

Morals pillar nobility
But nature spares by – 
Insofar as the choice is moderacy

Over me they seek to keep 
They can shape me, me too a shaper
Just that I start a peep

A quest to solve the world 
Challenged to fix my head 
Get me defined – no word

Launch talks for luck
One screen sets parts 
Grace, lone-stands, earns buck

Formless strife made me worry
An envoy made as of succubus
Made me awoke being sorry

He who sounded the gong
Has done it wrong
And rhythm’s lost in our song

The earth, about the Sun, rotates
Science, my house remains on its plot
Lies make the pupils dilate

Africa! Here some questions
Khartoum, Mogadishu, Malaria, HIV, Genocides . . .  ?
Orients through Occident find me solutions

Muses – a kind that’s potent
Might make me hit the laureate’s podium
And be free of amateurish latent!

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Searchlight

Between vanity
and task for leading
waits - lay wisdom

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Essence

Life – herein I found you defined
Simplicity? Mad rush, in rat-race…
Sweats from the frets of acceptance
Mine quota of earth’s bliss

Life – living and its complexities
The universe, as polygon, and its sides?
Just the tipping elusive,
And rumbles, even in pursuit of peace

And in its leading – Life,
The placing of order, and schooling,
 Of days, nights, harmattan, and rains   
Yet chaos leads the many elements

Living the quotes,
In its unbending lexis
And some twists along
Seeking for happy endings

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To Japan

In the place of the rising sun
Where fasts break on sushi
And the sumo's size a delight

The earth wriggles – wets our kimonos
Took stuffs up to origami
And dampens muses for haiku

As the sunrise 
We are in Nippon 
Together!

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Yet Another Breathe

On this one line
I go on pushing my lot
My id, my leading

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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)

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Discourse In Filial Shift

Don’t blame me for the difference
Apart from the variance of time
There is of parentage, location
And factoring in of education

I like the counsel, and its source
Can only be agreed of as wise
My views are judged non-yielding
But first and last . . . its me

Maybe this will help
Biometrics – the id, genes, and history
Rest assured won’t betray you
Even when the thought has been I had

Give my rebellion its chance
I see it won’t end up prodigal
I am armed beyond joey and eaglet
Believe me, I am your boy, and also man

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Once Upon a Mother

On and on, the memorial counting
Upon your epitaph in our looking

We know your womb formed missions
Your back carried visions
And your breast fed nations 

Dear mother, even though short
Your passage’s engraved on the earth.