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Ayo Okikiolu
Oct 10, 20221 min read
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, 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
Jul 6, 20221 min read
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, 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, 20212 min read
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, 20211 min read
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, 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
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, 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
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, 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 5, 20211 min read
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, 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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