Imole Olusanya

  Nutty in he went berserk like a bull gored the tall poked the short. Sweet out he glistened with his glitz bowed to the old a belly laugh with the young. Like water dabbled in unstable guile like a chasm covered with a golden flannel attractive hoax. Man eye cool muddy inside maniacal master of words benighted fellas believe he is benign.

When God made us he implanted in us a device with the name IP and equipped us with the ability to insert a V by taking a step at a time but some of our men feel like the tower of Pisa though inspiring, bending yet unmoving and when they see the birds fly over the Burj Khalifa and over the Everest some chose to be so not static as the wife of Lot when she looked back but spreading their wings  over highs and lows some are bats and owls flying at night while we sleep in our cradles some are chameleons taking the appearance of others some are doves angelic and obedient some are hawks feasting on the flesh of the vulnerable VIP is not for some but VVVIP and for many of those their V turns R. Here is a poem on haste to get rich and powerful. God has equipped us with what we need to get all we wanted in the right way although it may be quite long but being long or not being satisfied has made some do a lot of evils to get all they want and this only turns them from VIP (Very Important Pe...

  Tattered wings of the eagle Tattered fronds of the palm tree Tattered leaves of the banana tree Tattered shirts of kids playful. Soaring happy eagles wheeling in the sky Fruitful palm trees with nuts bountiful Fecund banana trees with seeds plentiful Gleeful toddlers filled with joy. Tattered with joy Betters perfection without Flee from it That deprives you of joy. Here is a poem about life and lifestyle of some people. They prefer living with the little they have with joy than chasing wealth and losing joy. There a lot of people with riches and pains but this set of people that this poem focuses on choose to be tattered with joy. This poem compares the lifestyle of these people with eagles having tattered wings yet soaring high than many birds, palm trees with tattered fronds yet with many nuts, banana trees with tattered leaves yet with many fruits and kids with tattered shirts yet gleeful and without worries. In the last stanza, the poetic persona prefers tattered with joy to...