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before the sun sets

Poem / Poetry

Jan 18, 2007

The Booksie Classic House

Explores the feelings that distance brings forth Read More

IBADAN

Poem / Poetry

Jan 20, 2007

The Booksie Classic House

Have ever visited a town,village or country and had this urge not to leave?This is what i tried to recall, the feelings i had after visiting Ibadan in south west Nigeria Read More

MORE BROKEN CORDS

Poem / Poetry

Jan 20, 2007

The Booksie Classic House

She is still with another amd i am left to flounder as I pounder what went wrong Read More

Enraptured

Poem / Poetry

Jan 23, 2007

The Booksie Classic House

For the feeling one gets at the sight of that one person we've spent all our life waiting for Read More

THE PATHWAY HOME

Poem / Poetry

Jan 24, 2007

The Booksie Classic House

A trip from my present to my past to find the route to my future Read More

WILDFIRE

Poem / Poetry

Jan 24, 2007

The Booksie Classic House

I've always wanted to recount my first sex encounter. This lines try to recall all that I remember...minus the belting by my father later...enjoy Read More

FORESTS OF BLOOD

Book / Action and Adventure

Jan 25, 2007

The Booksie Classic House

A young American geologist heads to the Nigerian delta in search of experience and adventure,there he meets a world so different from the one he left behind,he was forced to change his world view as his view… Read More

untitled lame one

Poem / Poetry

Jan 26, 2007

The Booksie Classic House

My cousin lost her husband a few months ago,this is a summary of her cries as she wept by his grave side Read More

torch of tomorrow(edit)

Poem / Poetry

Feb 10, 2007

The Booksie Classic House

All you've ever thought about Read More

WORLD APART

Poem / Poetry

Feb 10, 2007

The Booksie Classic House

THE FELLING ONE GETS WHEN A LOVE IS SET TO PART Read More

LAMENTATION

Poem / Poetry

Feb 14, 2007

The Booksie Classic House

My country and country men have had to migrate to other lands for sustenance sake. there they stoop low to do all kind of menial tasks for suvival sake, The nation is lesf the worse for it,… Read More

TONGUE TIED

Poem / Poetry

Feb 14, 2007

The Booksie Classic House

At times you lack not the will to express your self to a loved one, but the words to. this valentine I reach out to all who share this feeling, so that they can not only find… Read More

JOURNEY'S END

Poem / Poetry

Feb 14, 2007

The Booksie Classic House

For those days we want to give up.for those people who give us that unexpected lift, for that place we are all heading to, finally. For HE that awaits at the very end. Read More

GRAY BEARD

Poem / Poetry

Feb 14, 2007

The Booksie Classic House

While shaving a few days ago i discovered that i have sprouted two strands ofwhite hair on my chin. Aa Hhaa!I exclaimed, i am coming of age. this few verses tries to show what i think about… Read More

NOVEMBER MOON

Poem / Poetry

Feb 18, 2007

The Booksie Classic House

this poem tries to convey my thoughts on the interplay of the moon and the clouds in a tropical night sky during the november harmattan Read More

Karma's fate

Poem / Poetry

Feb 18, 2007

The Booksie Classic House

A statement of my struggles with life Read More

ODE TO MY VILLAGE ROAD

Poem / Poetry

Feb 18, 2007

The Booksie Classic House

In praise of the dusty brown route that has carried my generation to and fro for centuries and will cotinue to for eons to come Read More

THE TORCH OF TOMORROW

Poem / Poetry

Feb 18, 2007

The Booksie Classic House

A study of the limit of man's leaning towards the hope that emanates from within but comes from without Read More

FORBIDEN LOVE

Poem / Poetry

Feb 19, 2007

The Booksie Classic House

I CANT THINK STAIGHT NOW MAYBE YOU HAVE TO READ TO UNDERSTAND Read More

WONDER OF BEING

Poem / Poetry

Feb 23, 2007

The Booksie Classic House

In praise of self worth Read More

LOVE'S FADING EMBER

Poem / Poetry

Feb 23, 2007

The Booksie Classic House

Love's fading ember Read More

BROKEN CORD

Poem / Poetry

Mar 04, 2007

The Booksie Classic House

SHE LEFT TO SEEK ANOTHER WHO MAY NOW LOVE LIKE HIM.SO I WRITE TO ASK WHY Read More

MY BOOKSIE YEARNINGS

Poem / Poetry

Mar 06, 2007

The Booksie Classic House

Have you asked yourself why you are here? I may think you know but then you dont. Have you wondered why you dont get read? Read More

ROAD TO DAFUR

Poem / Poetry

Mar 07, 2007

The Booksie Classic House

This is one poem every one would want to skip past, but I dare say that it is better to see than believe the unseen Read More

LOST YOUTH

Poem / Poetry

Mar 10, 2007

The Booksie Classic House

Ever wondered how swiftly your values are eroded away by imported values? Ever wondered how swiftly you are being over run by ideas that are alien to your culture and how it all fades away to nothing… Read More

EARTH MOTHER

Poem / Poetry

Mar 13, 2007

The Booksie Classic House

I am still working on this piece but current event makes it imparative that i share now. You have maybe heard of the Niger Delta and oil, kiddnappings and Militancy.Well I am Nigerian and I speak for… Read More

FREE WIND

Poem / Poetry

Mar 22, 2007

The Booksie Classic House

Ever tried to describe nature in action? well, I looked deeply and did and this is what I saw Read More

THE STORM'S EYE

Poem / Poetry

Mar 31, 2007

The Booksie Classic House

Remember back in school, during those noisy sessions, that one person who seemed not to be affected by all the noise.well i do and i wrote this for her. Read More

WHO'S RACIST?

Poem / Poetry

Apr 04, 2007

The Booksie Classic House

WHY DO WE GET TO BEAR THE PAIN OF THE WORLDS HATE? What have we done to be so treated?Are all in the western world too raceist to end this pain? Read More

WE STOOD IN LINE

Poem / Poetry

May 03, 2007

The Booksie Classic House

I wondered about elections that dosnt produce the poeple's choice, the sort that ills Africa, the kind that produces tryants and sit tight presidents. please judge my work on its merit not on its origin. Read More