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The high point of loneliness is when you begin to notice and give attention to your own shadow. ~Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu
Finding a good friend is a downright task. Keeping him is an uphill task. Losing him is a mournful task. ~Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu
A good book and a smooth road are similar: you’d always love to pass through them over and over again. ~Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu
Marriages fail because they are either taken too seriously or taken for granted. They should be taken rather like coffee – not too cold and not too hot. If too bitter, should be sweetened a little with sugar. If too dark, should be lightened a little with milk. ~Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu
The man with sight, since he sees everything, sees the fullness of life. The blind man, since he sees nothing, sees the emptiness of life. Each man is right in his own eyes. ~Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu
"A human writer needs to think and many times rewrite their work. We put our heart, creativity and imagination into each write to bring it to life."
A Veteran is the one who takes up arms to save you before the ones who take up arms to kill you can succeed. ~Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu
One of the best places to be on earth is among happy people. ~Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu
Which of these two fake friends do we manage — the one who rejoices silently when trouble comes to us or the one who refuses to rejoice with us when good things come to us? ~Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu
Monday is a marathon. Tuesday is a breather. The rest of the week is pay-as-you-go. ~Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu
Faith. Hope. Dream. These are energy boosters man needs as he desperately races through life. ~Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu
Lost in love with you. Love is like the wind, feeling refreshing and renewing.
Smiling moments with you feel so amazing. May our love soar high above like two doves.
Love you like the sun and moon. Constant and forever.
Love is timeless. Love lives.
Love is like water, always cool and refreshing.
Choice before conception.
A whatabout has no place in American politics.
"Creativity with human heart is the key to writing."
When your psycho never meets your logical it's a problem.
Love, easy to say, but not always so easy to do.
What makes you a star is not how you shine on your own, but how you shine on people's lives. ~Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu
As quiet as a lamb. As unending as power in the hands of the African leader. ~Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu
No matter how fast artificial intelligence spreads, global stupidity will always be ahead of it. ~Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu
Mondays are like the first day in school — you have everything but confidence. ~Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu
You don't need to be literate in order to read the human mind. ~Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu
I need to stop thinking of myself as a misfit, unworthy of that valetine or enough for a prince on a white horse. I AM someone's happily ever after.. someone's fairy tale.
A monotheistic God is the antithesis
of the polytheistic Gaian Hypothesis.
For the brave, words are not enough. For the crazy, there are not enough words.
Sometimes not saying anything is the best answer, for silence can never be misquoted.
Tact! Is the art of making a point, without making an enemy.
Some say that dreamers are wasting their time, and to face up to reality, and not walk around blind, but dreams have no barriers, dreams have no walls, and wouldn't it be wonderful, if just one dream came true.
The Sun is king over everything.
Love is the ghostly light that no shadow or blade can sever.
In the quiet spaces between pain and grace, the heart finds its truth.
The soul’s final rest is a tender nightfall after a long and weary journey.
Peace is not found in forgetting, but in embracing the wounds time cannot heal.
Some lights never die—they shimmer softly in the dusk of memory.
A silent scream unheard still carries the weight of a thousand words.
Though time moves on, love’s true essence remains an unwavering beacon.
You shimmer still within my dusk, a faded gleam in memory’s husk.
Joy can slip like wind, but the tether of memory holds fast.
Behind every borrowed face lies a story too quiet to tell.
Echoes of a silent heart linger long after the voice has faded.
The darkest nights are softened by the memory of a steady, guiding light.
In the stillness after sorrow, a gentle flame of love continues to burn.
Loss may shadow the soul, but hope is the light that keeps it striving.
Even when joy slips quietly away, the heart remembers what it once held.
Sometimes the hardest pain is born from the absence of honest words.
I never asked for perfect ways, only honesty to stay.
When you’re just an option in someone’s life, they’ll overlook the value of your presence, no matter how rare your heart is. True worth is only seen by those who are ready to cherish it, not by those still weighing their options.
By: Innantia Magcanya
"AI has stolen the imagination from writers. The human writer is the true creator from their heart. AI is the great copier because they have No heart to write with."
Despite daily grind, to others be kind.
Children off to college. We cannot hold on too long to anything of this world, even what is dearly heartfelt. Nothing was ever ours alone, to claim and keep.
We are born as flames and die as ash because the world doesn’t know what to do with the fire in us.
Society doesn’t want you alive with soul — just functional and silent.
We are a world that demands perfection, but fears sincerity.
The true crime is not just death, but the brutal lack of shame before a life that fades.
Every bullet fired into a child screams for eternity: I lacked the courage to become human.
Murderers of nations wear suits, not remorse. They don’t sleep, they rest in their own toxic silence.
Hypocrisy is when you cry for the world but ignore your brother fallen at your feet.
Humanity hasn’t died, it merely sleeps beneath piles of selfies and unsolicited opinions.
We don’t care for truth, only for how beautifully a lie sounds when spoken with the right smile.
We preach kindness while closing the doors on those who ask for just a flicker of light.
We loved each other with the same desperation a junkie seeks his syringe: in the dead of night, in darkness, without shame.
Love is the most poetic form of addiction. And the most beautiful ruin.
I do not fear addictions, only those that wear the face of love.
To love is to fall daily into the same divine trap, without wishing to be saved.
I was addicted to you like a prayer said in vain, but one that kept me alive.
When I love, I no longer know if I burn with longing or simply relive the withdrawal of too long an absence.
"The pen must go where the pen wants to go. Today it went down Heartbroken Lane."
"An ego driven journey is but a voyage that circles back to emptiness.."
A UNION OF CIRCUMSTANCE
VERSUS MUTUALITY IS WEAK…
Sunday is the only day with a silent melody. ~Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu
Every other season is a romance. Summer is a party. ~Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu
Men and women —they frighten each other terribly, yet cannot do without each other's horrors. ~Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu
One special gift that is often overlooked is the spirit of perseverance. ~Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu
Do not be angry with the dormant friends you have on Facebook and on social media who do not LIKE or comment on your statuses and pictures, and do not congratulate you on your birthday. See them just as the regular passengers you meet every morning on the train and bus on your way to work, and with whom you do not exchange greetings ? the only thing you share being just passengers on board the same train and bus. ~Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu
Unfortunately, even if the mind comes to understand, what went wrong with a relationship -- the heart never will.
Could it be said that Mary, mother of Jesus, quite literally had a bun in the oven? John 6:48
Our problem in Nigeria is greed. We have everything. We are blessed beyond measure. But the only thing affecting us is greed. One man wants to eat the food of ten men. Greed. Prof Adejola Joseph.
A good friend is like a balm applied or administered on a deep cuts. A bad friend is like filth besides a pot of soup (stench). Prof Adejola Joseph
"There's A Squirrel In Your Soup!"
A great family consists of a father who is a hard nut to crack, a mother who is a hard nut to chew and children who are hard nuts to swallow. ~Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu
Art is a medley of truths and silly things. A tapestry of useful sins. ~Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu
Friends are like websites. There are some you visit more than the others. ~Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu
Hard times and fake friends are like oil and water : they don't mix. ~Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu
Storms are good winds that blow away the bad people around you. ~Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu
Spring is the light at the end of the tunnel we know as winter. ~Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu
Maintain focus to avoid distraction. Maintain focus to maintain direction. Where there is focus there is achievement and good success. Prof Adejola Joseph.
The entire world is in chaos because of greed. Greed is the bane of all forms of anomalies. Greed. Greed has destroyed everything. I mean everything. Prof Adejola Joseph.
Open the gate of school and close the gate of prison. Where there is education there is security and progress. Prof Adejola Joseph.
First, I am a Yoruba man. Second I am a Nigerian. Third I am an African. Fourth I am a creation of Providence and lastly I am human and that's the most important thing... humanity.
Tomorrow is pregnant. So, make the best of today. Live well, act well, speak well. Conduct and compose and comport yourself very well.
To control your enemy deny him food and money.
Love is the sine qua non of existence. Where there is love there is liberty, freedom and pursuit of happiness. Love.
Life has two sides just like synonyms and antonyms, positive and negative, like and unlike charges, day and night and light and darkness. Such is life.
What if the hole that I am trying to fill in my life is a shadow from what I need to change?
Climb mountains effortlessly
Some songs are just not worth singing
Resistance is far more powerful than we are
The greatest richness in life comes without money
All things in life are important but not everything in life seems to make sense
I'll hold the umbrella only, so you don't get wet
Trust in God...is easy, perhaps for God...but sometimes us men have great difficulty with the concept. In God's time...keeping long track with my antique watch.
Christ is our personal Redeemer of lost-and-found. Let us pray....
Poetry Soup is becoming a war zone, the enemy is plagiarism with AI owning the throne.
God teaches us all we need to move ourselves through this time and into our eternity.
Loving us, he guides us with all of his commandments.
Lifting prayers today and always.
Time is fluid; moving at its own flow. With each drip, it makes its way, toward our destiny.
Childhood ends not with age, but with the last fruit picked without permission.
What is trance? Is it just zombie like? Or can illness, hyper activity be a form of trance? Transfixed, habitual, immovable -- Are we not all, in a deeper sense, in varying degrees, a trance of self?
True love never need apologize. Love is its own reason enough.
Trust in God...is easy, perhaps for God...but sometimes us men have great difficulty with the concept. In God's time...keeping long track with my antique watch.
Really, war has few faces...if there were more, there would be far less numbers. Faces, with hearts and families.
Love so powerful it lifts us to places in space, making all our dreams come true.
A politician is someone who promises the earth while living on another planet.
An Illegal immigrant, is someone breaking into your home, and you paying to keep them.
Demons only exist in the light
In the dark we are all men
Is there a hell? Yes, it’s the one you created for yourself.
It’s hard to live with dignity when the world teaches you to survive through compromise.
There are days when God is quiet. And instead of praying, we complain about the silence.
If one day you lose your way in someone else’s soul, you may never find a route back to your own life.
To stay kind in a world that strips your soul is a sacred kind of madness.
If you love me, stay even when it’s no longer beautiful. That’s where truth begins.
I was abandoned with such elegance, I almost applauded.
Not every hug heals, some just remind you that you’re still alone.
I gave all I had and then was judged for having nothing left.
Life didn’t give me answers, but it offered enough silences to make me a poet.
"Maths is like love, when you get confused you cheat"
"The attitude of not accepting the conflict energy which is above your dignity is regression"
Jagdish bajantri (mhabharamnad)
Reward yourself everyday because if you don't value yourself no other will
"Women like what they hear, men like what they see that's why women wear makeup"
"eyes give sight, but clear minds give vision"
"Your lies are like credits you enjoy it now you pay it later"
"The villian will always be the villian if the hero tells the story"
"real love isnt easy, easy love isnt real"
"some people talk to you in their free time and some people free their time to talk to you" make sure you know the differance
"Being nice does not get you loved it gets you used"
best few will understand this quote
"If you cant change the people around you change the people around you"
Someone's thankful for your existence
The fire is our speech. The wind is our voice
Don't let the autotune ruin your tune.
Teaching means guarding the flame of wonder in a child’s soul—gently, daily, faithfully.
To teach is to nurture the sacred light that lives in every child.
Teaching is sacred work—watering wonder, pruning fear, and tending the spirit’s silent blooming.
To teach is to garden the soul—patiently, gently, and with faith in unseen roots.
To teach is to garden the soul—patiently, gently, and with faith in unseen roots.
Christianity is not defined by perfection, but by the courage to love without conditions.
I desire the eyes
True happiness comes from within. The eyes are only appeased by what's not seen