Have You Met The Dawn?
because I have. Glimpses of its majesty have long enthralled me In spring, birds sing, flowers bloom early In winter, light refracts...
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Ayo Okikiolu
- Oct 1, 2022
- 1 min
Panegyric
I am sat in the audience while someone does my eulogy. Mother? Father? Brother? Child? I hope it is a friend. Grand paean or minor psalm?...
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Ayo Okikiolu
- Oct 1, 2022
- 1 min
LOVELY AND AFRAID
Death erases future and Life is future so it's easy to let the prospect of death dictate life. it is more prudent to allow the prospect...
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Ayo Okikiolu
- Jul 6, 2022
- 1 min
PEN AND SWORD
I am fortunate to be unfortunately saddled with the daunting but dire duty of the pen. I know it has been said, that the pen can slay...
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Ayo Okikiolu
- Mar 8, 2022
- 2 min
Transformational
Transformational You'll see thousands of messages this IWD, each one from men, women, people, wishing all the queens they know their best....
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Ayo Okikiolu
- Jun 24, 2021
- 1 min
Bleed
Bleed I want to change my life. I really want to change my I can really want to change I can and really want to Can I bleed? History...
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Ayo Okikiolu
- Jun 17, 2021
- 2 min
Keys to Empathy
Keys to Empathy Well I spoke to the king of Empathy and asked him for his key. 'How do you rule? How do you do it? How do you live it,...
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Ayo Okikiolu
- Jun 10, 2021
- 1 min
Windows in heav'n
Windows in heav'n I do wonder about the windows in heav'n What would loved ones see if they looked out? What would my best friend say in...
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Ayo Okikiolu
- Jun 3, 2021
- 1 min
Deception of a Crowd
Deception of a Crowd You can never truly trust an audience. One moment it's Hosanna, then the next it's Crucify! Crucify!! Palm leaves...
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Ayo Okikiolu
- May 27, 2021
- 2 min
The world is the world.
The world is the world. Well for some people... ...it’s everything, every theme, and every thought, every scheme, beauty shades of ugly...
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Ayo Okikiolu
- May 20, 2021
- 2 min
Dichotomy within
Dichotomy within I do not dread bondage yet I desire liberty. There is a difference. One binds me all the more, the other lets me free...
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Ayo Okikiolu
- May 13, 2021
- 1 min
The dove looks upon me
The dove looks upon me Oh I imagine your eyes are pure. Oh I imagine they pierce! Oh Look what tears I shed. I imagine as your wings take...
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Ayo Okikiolu
- Jan 6, 2021
- 1 min
Tales in the eyes (II of VI)
It's as though all the heavens and stars
In the night sky,
And all the heavens and stars
In your beautiful eyes
Agree on the same thing.
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Ayo Okikiolu
- Jan 6, 2021
- 1 min
Tales in the eyes (I of VI)
Starry nights.
That's what I see in your eyes.
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Ayo Okikiolu
- Jan 6, 2021
- 1 min
It felt like I could touch the clouds.
It felt like I could touch the clouds. The clouds moved as willowy wisps In the Canadian evening sky. White lines zipped into And out of...
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Ayo Okikiolu
- Jan 6, 2021
- 2 min
Not.
Not. One day, I began to moan endlessly: “Not the smartest person in the room. Not the strongest, not the wisest. These are the things...
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Ayo Okikiolu
- Jan 6, 2021
- 2 min
Sing, One Must.
Sing, One Must. I’ve been singing a tune that never ends singing and singing and singing and singing by living and breathing, dreaming...
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Ayo Okikiolu
- Jan 6, 2021
- 1 min
As it is
As it is An oddity exists that people cannot but inveigh against everything or consider the beauty in something or abstain from criticism...
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Ayo Okikiolu
- Jan 6, 2021
- 1 min
There Be Light
There Be Light Let there be light is a just phrase that echoes through all our days In a dark room a beautiful vase that drives away doom...
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Ayo Okikiolu
- Jan 6, 2021
- 1 min
Till Next Time.
Till Next Time People are laughing, smiling, happy, Then the hammer strikes; The hammer strikes A nail in the coffin. People are joking...
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