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Best Poems Written by Olakunle Campbell

Below are the all-time best Olakunle Campbell poems as chosen by PoetrySoup members

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Whispers of Hope




Whispers of Hope 

I found strength 
amidst the rolling wave
as the billowing wind
pause to whisper a secret
resounding my passive desires
that you are a part of me

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Life


Life

My cherished one 
set against 
a sordid world 
My lanes are coerced 
just as my feet are formed 
My life is a platter 
furnished on a plaza 
dicing my thoughts 
stewing my ordeal
rendering my life 
a treasure meal
set before a soulless world

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We Worn a Race

WE WORN A RACE

Sited around the fading fire
With broken wills and glowing shame
They walk the  darkness
Burden with stiffened hopes 
They trudge ahead 
With a shorten vision
They soon lost the sun
With no dazzling rays 
And no mingling heat
They settled in a long struggle
Amidst so much trouble
They miss the days’ future

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A Hooded Dream

Africa mother Africa 
Africa of scrumptious haven 
Slowly stretched 
Into an unscrupulous savannah 

Africa of whom my grandmothers 
Now sits and cry 
Singing her present gore 
Silhouette against her ancient glory

Your blood flows on our streets 
And on our streams
Your beautiful black blood 
That in time past flows in our veins	

Africa that birthed warriors 
Of ancestral citations
Now puppets of millennium recantation
 
The sweats of your toils
The scars from your slavery 
The cry for your freedom 
How come this has now
Transformed into a mastery 
Of your present folly


You  whose back was bent
To pack from her plenteous plantation
Now breaks in the continuous bid 
To pick form her present carnage

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Natures Revolt

Nature’s Revolt

  
It was a day of woe 
As we stared and uttered wails 
When we beheld an awesome sight
Of priceless loss
It was a universal eve
When the world was sparkling the sky
With thundering shouts of joy
To greet the arrival of a saint 
Who staked it, to be a saviour
But we were rooted out of our moods
With mortals wails taking us to the orients
Where we beheld nature untimely revolts
Against life in the Asian world

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Innocent Ritual

INNOCENT RITUAL
The sound came suddenly but sharply
Odum had started beating his drums
Telling all it is time 
  
With a rush, Awili began sweeping wildly
Spreading the dirt as far away as he could reach
Heralding his coming is alway with a ceremony
Sending all with a rush
Thus making shouts and yells a common course
Again Amen has come 
With all her splendour
Graced with a million sticks 
To pierce the soil

It must be today said l 
An outstretched limb of awili
Went over my back
Sparkling up a nostalgia 
To the yearning of decades

The ritual must be today
The call must be yielded 
With a bow
My robe was loosen
And out with dudu i stepped
Cloaked only in natures’ suit

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The Long Wait

I wait for my love
Looking at the building for the tenth time 
She sighs, then snicker to herself
In expectation of the million surprises  
life and her love 
Would swing then spring 
As she awaits her love
Humming for our love
I vision a million places
As l viewed the passing faces
Fixated only on my love
I faxed my care and kisses 
Prayed on my hands and knees 
Passionate for your return 
I ache with pain
I sob and strain 
Stretching and scanning 
For your promised return 
With every tickling seconds
Pacing into minutes
Pounding into hours
I begin to rave 
As l began a hate
Of every thought of loosing you
My world is chilly 
my words becomes still                            
I rage then wave 
To the moving world 
Screening the movie
My world has become 
As l await my love
With his promised return 
   
     Dedicated to Khashoggi fiancee 2018

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My World

My world


My day is brighten
Just as your voice sounds the air
Resounding so much laughter
Your sun rays radiating so much love
Making my world so alive 
Thus bringing fulfillment to every day
Eloping my darken hour
Revolving the deadliest aura

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Sound of a Lonely Man

Sound of a lonely man

Behold the sound
Telling you of a distance away
Hear him speak 
Giving the vision of a lonely man
Hear the lone voice
Crying to a nation closely tied
A place where plains fly into pains
A land slowly farmed into a forest
A place wide awake
But with the faintest dreams
See the land
Where unattended calls 
Runs into flashy thoughts
A place where the hopeful man 
Tells the tales of a lonely man

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Symphony of Life



Symphony of Life

An embittered phase  
Birthing a beaten man
swapping in-between worlds
With ebbing expectations
Prompting shattering wills
A stolen life 
on a broken path
Spattered with fading faith 
Swirling nowhere