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Ayo Okikiolu
Oct 1, 20221 min read
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
Jan 6, 20211 min read
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, 20211 min read
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, 20212 min read
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, 20211 min read
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, 20211 min read
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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Ayo Okikiolu
Jan 6, 20211 min read
gods
gods. I offer much good of me to thee. For to know you is free, you are all we see. When I wake, I stretch my hands to take an idol with...
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Ayo Okikiolu
Jan 6, 20211 min read
Dim. Dum. Harrumph.
In the tune,
Of the Western boon,
I hear a sound
Many minds silently singing out loud.
“Dim..."
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Ayo Okikiolu
Jan 6, 20211 min read
Mercy is a weird thing.
All mercy sees
Is someone in need.
That’s really
All there ever is.
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Ayo Okikiolu
Jan 6, 20211 min read
Clothed like a flower.
Clothed like a flower. Soul. Please be clothed as a flower Peaceful, unwavering, impressed with right colorful ideas Worried for nothing...
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Ayo Okikiolu
Jan 6, 20211 min read
Fraught
Fraught. Fraught with the challenge of success Fraught with the meaning of progress Fraught with discovery We are fraught wherever we’ve...
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Ayo Okikiolu
Jan 3, 20211 min read
Fragile hearts.
Life appears as a free-fall
even for the gracious and underhand,
despite that they both possess
the most fragile hearts
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Ayo Okikiolu
Jan 3, 20211 min read
Devilish tricks (If a devil…)
Devilish tricks (If a devil…) Imagine all the world was a podium. For a second, suspend all logic and imagine. A magician stands on his...
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Ayo Okikiolu
Jan 3, 20212 min read
Scorpions in the Sand.
Secrets thought. Often, wondered I, of the nature of secrets wild The truth, if it be a shore, is plenty-full of soft golden sand. Hence, th
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Ayo Okikiolu
Jan 3, 20211 min read
A Good End
Distant’ light sells:
for self, I fend
Rope from dark-hell
pull-fears portend
“Shall be well!”, says
Light at the end.
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Ayo Okikiolu
Jan 2, 20211 min read
At last
Now aware of folly and of flaw,
Shall we then go on a ride today?
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Ayo Okikiolu
Jan 2, 20211 min read
Foxes
Toxic foxes hide, eat fine vines
disguised as crude food for the smart heart...
That’s just how toxic foxes are
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Ayo Okikiolu
Jan 2, 20211 min read
Emotional toll
The red in their eye
almost wrestled my breath away
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Ayo Okikiolu
Jan 2, 20211 min read
The page
The Page The motive of some who succeed is as thus: “I know that I possess wisdom, therefore I write it on a page” The thing that has...
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Ayo Okikiolu
Dec 31, 20202 min read
Kaleidoscopic world
Embrace the panorama that reflects
the light of the heavenly expressed in humanity.
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