Legacies! by Adewale Sobowale

Seasons, just like barracks are relatively permanent! People only pass through them; Like we say where I come from: A clerk can’t ever outlive the office; No matter how long they live will they be Methuselah? They can’t outlive life! We weren’t aware when we breathed our first; Nor can we be aware when we’ll breathe…

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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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