of all I carry a sense of duty songs of sorrow right to riches my father’s eyes stand out from all the sight of a man carrying with him a sense of duty songs of sorrow hidden weaknesses plucking his riches starving his cravings working to stack enough not to lack of all that he […]

Ọmọ Káàárọ̀-oòjíire Lamurudu birthed the myth of man the pride I wear as Ọmọ Odùduwà from Mecca, he found love in ile ife my father’s wisdom birthed Okanbi the lineage that remains the adimula that sits on the revered stool: the Ooni. ifa will never take a wrong step, and women have always taken the […]

I’m from the happiest state in Nigeria: Ipinle omiluabi – the land of virtue I’m from Ara (Egbedore LG) I’m Yoruba by tribe and dialect My people are mostly literate, travellers, bilinguals, family-oriented and farmers. The religious beliefs are Christianity, Islam & the Alami traditional worshippers. Rearing dogs is taboo – “Mobo Oosa Alara (the […]

The sanitary inspector Spread the campaign for communal cleanliness Throughout the red soil of the people before my arrival As a baby I wouldn’t know how a snake Employed itself as a security guard over me while i sleep For a land I heard are all great farmers The snake would have been protein for […]

Kind There are all sorts of beings From humans to the animal kingdom Birds of the air, fish in the sea The Lord makes them all Kind It happens so often That we meet kind people Who out of the milk of human kindness Do amazing things that we don’t deserve Bose.

Water Where do you come from? I have wondered if your bones can make a seasoned story It’s why your bed isn’t a sanctuary and everything hopes about you is not a broken dam. Rock My beginning is a static house a flesh that can knit a tale in a tale. I am an alter […]

My response to evils Of any kind Done to discourage me Performed to hurt Or simply set to mock and embarrass I tend to fight With all my power. Get them muddy and dirty Forgetting that a fight Gets all dirty and crazy With scratches on your face Where all will see But when i […]

When it rains, it pours Whether it pours or drizzles My soul finds such calm Hybrid

The Star; five pointy edges Five is the number of change Unlike God, I never stay the same Like a firefly in the night I am that shimmer in the sky The Star is me and I am her. Hybrid

there are several secrets that you’ve kept a thousand tears you’ve hidden in the dark shadows are how you do your headcount and on lonely nights, you’ve also wept your appearance in half and full wears a silence as comforting as you look Tomide Abdul