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
- 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
- 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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Ayo Okikiolu
- Jan 6, 2021
- 1 min
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, 2021
- 1 min
Heart of Gold.
Heart of Gold. A golden heart cares much For those she loves and does much too Every remark cold or warm Is love Every thought harsh or...
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Ayo Okikiolu
- Jan 6, 2021
- 1 min
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, 2021
- 1 min
50 Percent.
God and destiny and grace-in-being
All know the same thing
You're worth more than every and any percent.
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Ayo Okikiolu
- Jan 6, 2021
- 1 min
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, 2021
- 1 min
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, 2021
- 1 min
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 5, 2021
- 1 min
Hey, dragonfly.
Hey Mr. Dragonfly,
Do you wonder about your next meal
Or have you any dreams?
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Ayo Okikiolu
- Jan 3, 2021
- 1 min
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, 2021
- 1 min
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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