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Olakunle Campbell Poem
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
Copyright © Olakunle Campbell | Year Posted 2025
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Olakunle Campbell Poem
Life- Aye
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
Copyright © Olakunle Campbell | Year Posted 2025
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Olakunle Campbell Poem
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
Copyright © Olakunle Campbell | Year Posted 2013
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Olakunle Campbell Poem
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
Copyright © Olakunle Campbell | Year Posted 2013
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Olakunle Campbell Poem
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
Copyright © Olakunle Campbell | Year Posted 2014
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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
Copyright © Olakunle Campbell | Year Posted 2013
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Olakunle Campbell Poem
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
Copyright © Olakunle Campbell | Year Posted 2018
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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
Copyright © Olakunle Campbell | Year Posted 2013
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Olakunle Campbell Poem
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
Copyright © Olakunle Campbell | Year Posted 2013
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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
Copyright © Olakunle Campbell | Year Posted 2024
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