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Playing With Native Nigerian Names

omo-gori-ola- "often only hollas" but...
its my mic not ikenna's
aunty tee momohmutana-seems to like plenty tea more than bannnas
Gertrude? NO! she aint RUDE! dont. .. slam her
Olumide- he's only mild...wasnt dissing her.
the scribe-his drive, like with five lives. ask him..how many wives?
ayo deji israel...he! like pharao caged israel
osas...yea she passed
segun fagbemi....see a gun.. for enemies
Nkeoma eze ojukwu...ink on my essay. oh! look you!.
desmond...diamond cant exchage for salamis
Abedego...give a bed to every negro but not simon.
Adejoke..please add a joke. 
Aisha... like chineese geishas...o! tush ...for him
guess who is coming to leo's dinner... carolina
florence... the occurence,  please give her my prefference.
jenny...doesnt owe rent..  she's not just any kent.
Adewale...aid well to shine we put nuga.
abayomi mykel, - apart from me, who cares?
Bukola shogbamu  booked all on her-she's  bam
katerina daniel,- dating her?- come in here!
 hunk jozey darlington, - but why suck joze's darlin's tin?
 sharon samuel, i shall run- but not from a carmel
missdazzling rhoda chuks, .... hooked! i miss. jazz, it aint louder

here is the trick.
pronounce the latter with the sound of the former in mind and you'll be  surprised.

omo-gori-ola- 
often-only-hollas" 
itimo-mike-ikenna
its my-mic-not-ikenna's
aunty-tee-momoh-mutana-
plenty-tea-more-than-bannnas
Gertrude?- Elam-ar
aint RUDE! -dont. .. slam her
Olumide-  A-desin-a
only mild...wasnt-dissing-her
the scribe-his drive, like five lives.ask him..how many wives?
ayo-deji-  israel..
pharao-caged-israel
osas...yea she passed
segun-  fagbemi.
see a gun.. for enemies
Nkeoma- eze-    ojukwu...
ink on my -essay. -oh! look you!
desmond...salami
diamond cant exchange for salamis
 A-bed- nego...simon
 a bed to every negro-but not simon.
Ad-e-joke..
add a joke. 
Aisha... ottun-   raheem
geishas-o! tush-for him
guess who is coming to leo's dinner... carolina
florence... the occurence, please give her my preferrence!
jenny...doesnt owe rent.. cos she is kent
Adewale...  ade-nuga
aid well- to shine well-adding-nuga (nuga here is a brand of shoe polish) lol.
a-ba- yo-mi.    .my-kel, - 
a-part-from-me,  who cares?
Buk- ol- a.  sho-  gbamu 
 booked all on her-she's  bam
katerin-a    dan -iel,-
 dating her?- come in here!
hunk- jozey- darling-ton, - 
suck- joze's-darlin's-tin?
 sha-ron   sa-muel
 i shall run- but not from a -car-mel
chuks- missd- azz- ling  -  rhoda.
 hooked! i missed- jazz, -it aint -   louder

Copyright © Omogoriola Bisayo | Year Posted 2017



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My Love

Glowing like the early morning sun 
Subtle like 12% alcoholic rum
Poco-a-poco, I didn't know what hit me
Until your love saturated me

I need you like a heart needs a beat.
You be the cure to my feat 
Your love is all I need to feel complete.
No man contest,  no man Compete

Come live in my heart and pay no rent.
Use all the space but leave no dent
place all your eggs in this basket,  place a bet, 
I'll contain you with no regret


Our love  is a journey; of cause! 
Starting at forever, and ending at never.
Twill take eternity to break us 
I doubt if it even has the liver


I will love you until the stars go out
, and the tides no longer turn
Above you, still, like in a wrestling bout
KK. come over,  it's your turn


The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.
The best person to grow old with is one another 
We won't have to bother,  our love knowns no borders 
We could fly away on wings with feathers 


You shark me like old wine
Knock me down like fever
You may hold my hand for a while
, but you hold my heart forever.


I am happiest when I’m right next to you.
Every time I see you, I fall in love all over again.
I may not be your first date, kiss or love…but I want to be your last everything.
I love you – those three words have my life in them.



Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.
Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.

Copyright © Omogoriola Bisayo | Year Posted 2018

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Life Is a Rendezvous

She hailed from that little town of Manhattan 
She sailed storms,tides thus far and all through the harmattan.

He was born in France, 
 thought he got here by chance 

She was bent on running away from her past
He swore to wriggle back to his past. 

Her escape was panama, Here he strolled tra-la-la
She feared daunting fiends, He made bounty friends

Their paths crossed,  they thought it was fate
Getting boxed?  They thought that was Late

Why the hate for her past? 
Why the quest for his past? 

She had wrought evil in the land of her birth
He was bound to avenge his brother. His death! 

She ran as far as she could. He retraced his step back and won't be fooled
Now the sword on which his brother fell, Now carries the child his loins welled 

Life is a rendezvous, Many times this is misconstrued 
There is nothing like overdo And nobody is overdue

In the process of running away from our Waterloo 
We created  a Swimming pool. 

We squeeze our guilts in a bottle, But life always holds the corkscrew

We throw a stone from point A, and we ourselves run to point B  
Forgetting that  that is the stone's destination. 

Life is a bugaboo, There is always a Counter coupe
Life is a rendezvous

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Paulina My Sun Gone Down By Mid - Day

My better - half and my mum are the most important persons in this world to
 me

 The later is the dearest as u'd see

 Born under mighty and protective rocks

 A model with many positive characters in stock

 Oft in sorrow, oft in joy. Never to flee

 The best thing that ever happened to me


 My conveyance on a nine months journey

 A bodily composition of matrimony

 The lab of my nine months biological process

 Procuring for me a living license


 Your back was a proxy for my bed

 Many storybooks to me you've read

 And the realities of life instead


 You were the first person I saw

 When my body was raw

 When the pain of bringing me into this world had turned you sour

 When the sight of me, a coat of blood I wore


 Can I ever forget that welcoming smile?

 Dancing on your face while waiting for me at the shore?

 Ready to wrap me with a coat of fur.


 You thought me to carry each step until I was stable

 With your help, I can now always walk and never stumble.

 Cos you'd saved me the trouble while I was still todlling

 Ensur...... to be continued!

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Daddy

A shinny light shone on the horizon
a lofty height further from the forensic
from the loins of wisdom...
wisdom from his loins..begetting mega-wisdom (s)

daddy,my buddy.
my "paddy"...my "caddy"
my confidant..my confidence
the penchant...the fence

my inclination...my adoration
my guide...my guard
man with seven lives,
mum in heaven smiles,

“his fertile effervescent mind”
his fatherly ever - present bind
the simplicity of his complexity
the intricacy of his sagacity

magnanimity exemplified, 
hospitality embodified
enigmatically dogged, 
sub - urban rugged.
undauntedly courageous.. 
conscientiously religious
indefatigable hustler. 
easily understandable teacher

the earthen raged
you damned the bellows
tactically concealing the hidden page
you squeezed in to the hollow

glad you didn't listen
look at what we would be missing
we might have taken the long way
you always knew we'll get there someday

...Daddy, age with grace!
happy birthday.

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Lamentations of a Proletariat

Lamentations of a proletariat 

Loaded to the brim, withouted in a pack of "obersver-non participants"
folded like a wrap, yet forced to lack in the ranks of "server-run-anticipants"
dare to pass a comment and... a knife to your jugular
they claim to pass, yet, your life was the formulae

all work and no play
work work work and no pay
take home pay? No way
oh! how they dread our own payday!

Bourgeoisies, yes! They ply overseas
their remnants, our works, they oversee.
We build the roads, yet can't posses the cars that ply same.
Decyphering the codes, the confessors, the liars...we've been long in this game

Suffering, yet been forced to smile -"all is well -my foot!"
Oh! My root! My precedence...their loot!...my antecedence
their brute, they rule...when they loot....we mute
we've been stripped of our patience - robbed of our conscience.

we've been hit, smite, spite, ...despite, we still fit
they've been well bred, well fed, yet still got a lot to mend
even when we miss, they don't give a poo!
Though we do the roughs, their signatures they append.
Oh! This road i ply, puts food on my table, shows me the bills and ...i babble
Yes! It puts coin in my pocket
girds my loins with debts "a regal quarter"

"heads will roll"...let mine not be included
lest my judgement became beclouded
i've been spent, feeble is my might and...
Last time i checked, ain't no other option in sight

the unfortunante me 
i found myself in...
we seem to be tied up!...
but i know we will triumph

a song been loaned, 
without a collateral
A seed been sown
Via the lamentations of a proletariat

Copyright © Omogoriola Bisayo | Year Posted 2018

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Cry Me a River

I am not the giver, 
am not a diva.
Can't get you high,
can't even give you a fever.

When you are wet,  I can't get you dry
 When there is heat,  I can't give no quiver. 
Can't make you die, can't make you fly.
Ain't even got the liver. 

Your whining, your tears, your complaints.
Your pining , your fears, your disdains.
Though strongly panelled,
But wrongly channeled.

There is a man upstairs
Our whole burdens he bears
Whenever you see me do those things
It is he in Me that wove those strings.

The curtains are ripped asunder
Now we can access him like no other
What is the need of a middle man
When there is no more a riddle man? 

snug  up to him, he won't lie 
Draw nigh, open eyed and quote "i"
He made us, ordained us 
And he is responsible for us.

 So when next you decide to turn the heat on me. 
Am a just sit back and Fry me a pizza 
 While you hit hard and Cry me a river.

Copyright © Omogoriola Bisayo | Year Posted 2017

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Dignity of Labour

dignity of labour (in street language)  

To y'all peps wu still think  stinks. 

dreaming of reigning like a king,

 wearing diamond rings,

U dont wana bruise.

never wana loose, 

never choose to. 

dont wana be guilty, 

dont wana be filthy.

 always on average 

cos u dont wana touch garbage.

 thats why u're broke and we're so paid.

Copyright © Omogoriola Bisayo | Year Posted 2020

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Blackborn

BLACK BORN
When next you think of BLACK!

Think of coal, 
think of massive power plants. 
Who will give a "NO" 
to a flashy hour glass.

Think of the ace of spades,  
it's the highest in the deck of playing cards
The face of Blades
The type that be cutting hard.

Think of the dark night.. 
The precidence of a beautiful dawn..
Think of its might.
The bright of a powerful town

Think of a skillet, 
for once, the fry of a tastefull source..
The messenger of a longing rouse and..
The blessing of an empty pouch


Think of  a Black box,
 Think of its saving grace.
The epochs,
 the beginning of many races.

Whenever you think 
 a Black market stinks,
consider its reach
And not the rich.


When I think of the black eye, 
the type carried by "black I"
It Makes me cry and...
 I can't but wonder why?

We sweep the award Plaques
We blaze the tracks
Always ahead of the pack
A very Hard nut to crack


We tough to the bone
Forget the tone
We are Boneblack
And glad to be born black

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My Hero

The sight of you on the sand you stand
Blessed with a mind in good frame
Standing delicately on the spread land
Even the skies noticed that Victor is your name

The sight of you,the height of the mountain you maintained
Ready to reign in the velocity of the fountain
Though the experience you knew would be gory 
The story you were prepared to tell in glory

All these while I saw he sight of you 
But all seems impossible to be true
This things I wish I could do
But with the strength of who?

Copyright © Omogoriola Bisayo | Year Posted 2017

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