Caroffee! – Adewale Sobowale

Photo credit: carobness Meet we did,Some sizing up!Like, I did you,Sweet, you said! Going, you didn’t,But, had to!Wanted, you really,Me to feel! Coffee did becomeWine for you,1759 for self! Inseparable we were,Such a sunny day,Great a’noon,Flowers we shot,Happy you were,Elated I was! Then withdrew you,Your cocoon into!Pains you suffered,Aeons ago, madeYou utterly unlovable! So lick…

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Abiku! – Adewale Sobowale

Photo credit: Freepik It’s everywhere,Over years,Not only political,Also is physical,Could be emotional,And, also mental,Baba nla philosophy! Like play, like play,Rag has become cloth,We never refused,Tattered clothes to wear! Seen as abomination,In lands that were,Kere si numberShamefully happenNow in Obodo! Scariest of crimesHappen with levity,Tani ma mu mi-We hold power! Housewives raped,Daughters kidnapped,Sons are drugging,Fathers are…

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We’re damn lazy! – Adewale Sobowale

Photo credit: Medium If I’m not making a mistake, around the Udoji salary increment awards or thereabouts, most people in the Yoruba states of Nigeria decided they weren’t eating their pepper and tomatoes again. They felt those commodities were not sweet enough. And, Nigeria being awash with petrodollars, they didn’t find it difficult to be…

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Arise No Compatriots

Photo credit: Carbon brief By Onatola Abiodun – for Harvard of Have-heard, Before my country begins to callfor me, on service for first degree completed. And before I dropped this pen to feast; on course mate white shirt for signature append – this very end of a new beginning, this very beginning of a new…

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