Saturday, 30 March 2019

ANA OAU COMMENCES RECRUITMENT



The Association Of Nigerian Authors has decided to provide opportunity for student writers in Obafemi Awolowo University ( OAU) Ile-Ife to explore their creative minds by opening her annual recruitment for talented writers in the University.
According to the board, interested students are to obtain a recruitment form. For details, interested Writers are to contact the Editor-In-Cheif or the General Secretary via the following mobile numbers; 09032489558, 07053355581.

Sunday, 9 October 2016

As nature reads with us...























As nature reads with us...

UNDAUNTED APPRAISAL



                                        UNDAUNTED APPRAISAL
At the verge of silence, pregnant hearts could no longer be at ease,
Uncensored words are spoken, incomprehensible chatters, muttered,
Voices projecting unmelodious sounds are heard,
And ancient drums are played without fingers.

Fate!
I perceive the African heart trembling at its inconsistence.
Hope or insecurity? Fear or courage?

Attention!
Sonorous voices are heard,
No masquerading, this time, the tales are real.

Galactic patriots of past centuries,
Unmoved by the stings of ants.
Salutation sirs! You deserve more,
For you restored hope in our hearts,
And carved god-like images in our hearts for us to behold.

Gallant gods of grave glory!
Awake!
Look into our time and restore the perfectness of the past.
Giants!
An Ironical reference purging disturbances
But are we left with a choice?

Playing along wrongly perceived perceptions dwells as the order of the century,
The line was once drawn,
But was never observed, never maintained, and never obeyed.
Foundations were laid, but were left destroyed, damaged, and vandalized by unfiltered strangers.

Awake! Past glories of the GIANT OF AFRICA,
AWAKE! Leaders of disputes,
Awake soil and warm our feet,
To the weather, I appeal, please favour our vulnerable cause.



                                                                                                                          DOLAPO. S







At the verge of silence, pregnant hearts could no longer be at ease,
Uncensored words are spoken, incomprehensible chatters, muttered,
Voices projecting unmelodious sounds are heard,
And ancient drums are played without fingers.

Fate!
I perceive the African heart trembling at its inconsistence.
Hope or insecurity? Fear or courage?

Attention!
Sonorous voices are heard,
No masquerading, this time, the tales are real.

Galactic patriots of past centuries,
Unmoved by the stings of ants.
Salutation sirs! You deserve more,
For you restored hope in our hearts,
And carved god-like images in our hearts for us to behold.

Gallant gods of grave glory!
Awake!
Look into our time and restore the perfectness of the past.
Giants!
An Ironical reference purging disturbances
But are we left with a choice?

Playing along wrongly perceived perceptions dwells as the order of the century,
The line was once drawn,
But was never observed, never maintained, and never obeyed.
Foundations were laid, but were left destroyed, damaged, and vandalized by unfiltered strangers.

Awake! Past glories of the GIANT OF AFRICA,
AWAKE! Leaders of disputes,
Awake soil and warm our feet,
To the weather, I appeal, please favour our vulnerable cause.



                                                                                                                          DOLAPO. S




TIME! A FLYING FLY!




Envoy of consciousness that night-watches
the dark hair! Fail not thy bright light to shine,
at every hour of this gorgeous gallant night;

when agility chameleons wisdom,
when frivolity chameleons pleasure.
When purple gowns of morning and moon
praises apple than being sweet succulent timely fruit.

Wait not till rugged weak gray leaf sprouts, from thoughtless
woods; hunting heads, lacking future light on the fore of the head.

Help that we think:
                Most talened land of glorious bitter stench and dirge!
                Oh! Home of the most learneds and over-sensed!
                Where neurons are in medullas' offices! Youngs,
                Equals, and olds are only bonafied sagacious
                gloomy lights in these two weird worlds...

Why am I here? Sparkling...though likewise Ugly...
hope-filled, though procrastination; my Mussolini?
Time! Help that we think!

    Adéyemo E.O (kàkàkíOgbón)
I voice the wording of the king...

The Land is a Year Older Today



The Land is a Year Older Today           
The land is a year older today.
Yes, it is!
Right from the memory of the day
we pushed the great B’s hand off our mouth
and decided to feed with our own hand,
that was the day, we thought the voices of our independence had been heard.
That was the day, we dance in ignorance of jubilation, thinking we’ve met victory!
 That was the day, we thought freedom had finally come to dine with us.
That was day, we sing of a great success, not knowing our voices would soon sink
with extinct-education, corrugated-corruption, rotten-economy and leaking-living!

Ever since then,
“The land is a year older today” we do say ‘nually!
We praise its old clocking age seasonally.                  
We celebrate it as costume demands.
We sing it like a ritual of rightly rite.
We honour it with our Oro-space.
Though, with the heart inside us burning.
Though, with our conscience mourning.
Though, with our mouth wide open without grains.
Though, with the fear of hunger crippling us hard.
Though, with the shame from the sound of our praises.


The land is a year older today.
Yes, it is again today!
Just as we were in the horror of economy,
Just as we were in the crave of sorrow,
Just as we were in our crawling limps,
Just as we were in fate of a light hereafter,
So is today, a day of a year addition.
So is today, a day of a year perdition.
So is today, a day, we start to count tales.
So is today, a day, we are blind folded of where to go!

The land is a year older today.
Yes, it is!
What are we to praise of its aging existence
When the ugly ones cry of their spoilt beauty?
What in the name are we to praise
When the ABIKUs cry of their staying-suffering here?
What are we to count for as a message
When cowries had crossed the Rubicon?
What on earth are we to say of these groaning
When the voices from the market square puncture
and perforate my heart-skin?
The land is a year older today, we Octobise!
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