Concrete jungles by Adewale Sobowale

Ajegunle – with unlivable, ramshackle palaces, kids playing in cesspits, since the place lacks, even, simplest of amenities – remains a banter, where our new jungle cities are! Even the dead, dead as dodo, get deprived of eternal rest or unrest, graveyards must be reclaimed, and give way to skyscrapers! Sleeping waters are woken, reclamation…

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Quiet Storm! by Adewale Sobowale

Like a tiger;With quiet anger!Stealthily and silently;Till it’s timely! Biding their timewith magazine smiles,frustrated they are,because they lack! Land of plenty;Many are thirsty,masses kwashiorkoredsince they lack nurture! Oblivious of mass suffering,few haves go partying!Our Rome is burning,powerful are fiddling! Who’ll prevent quiet stormfrom its snaky venom?Solution very pedestrian:Masses should dignity earn! @as 060125

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Fool’s gambit by Adewale Sobowale

Some uncouth fellow; opens their trap; says they to a k-legged; your load’s askew! Man, tired, famished, undernourished; in exasperation, replies, look at my physique! Babies in womb; if not in apparent denial, know most of our problems; stem from the roots! With situation unfounded; human lives scattered; we imbibe petulantly; fabulous absurdities! Deceits are our…

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A Manila Evening!

By Adewale Sobowale When a masquerader chases you, whip-clad: Just persevere as there’s no monopoly of fatigue: It happens to earthlings, just like extraterrestrials! There’s this peace, silence – graveyard-like! While few moneybags enjoy commonwealth! Poverty-ridden majority – live in squalor! Few escape into refugeedom! Majority attempt escaping, squalid life, organizing, mobilizing into groups fighting…

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