Is it this epoch that breeds
the conspiracy
of your silence?
Has the Green
Lord
sloughed off the
candour
of his
bullet-anger?
Has the snake
accepted
the tread on its
tail?
Has the dog
flanked its tail
with its legs?
To blend with
the mosaic
of demo-crazy.
To erect
ramparts
around the
backdoor trust-hiefs
accepting their
colour.
To slaughter
their evils
with the cutlass
of your power.
To bury their
mien
in the grounds
of consultation.
Our Lion of Literature
From The Lion and the Jewel
To Alapata Apata
You become the
thorn in the skin
The thick skin
of despots
Inflicting the
pains of Abiku
Your pen roars
Your pen echoes
Travelling
around the jungle
The jungle of
the earth
Across the Nile
Across the
Sahara
Across the
Atlantic
Your words
travel
With your roars
Consuming
injustice
Like the fire
consumes
In harmattan
The king of
comedy
The king of
theatre
You rack our
brains
With your
neologic magic
Confusing the
English with English
You are an ocean
Your depth
unknown
Your honour, our
honour
The first Nobel
of our continent
Your praises I
sing
The stooge of
Ogun
I sing your
praises
The scion of
Essay
Your praises I
sing
Who will
challenge your honours?
Who will silent
your voice?
None...with your
vault of honours
None...with the
temerity of your wit
None...with your
white strands of hair
The scion of
Essay
Your praises I
sing
Again and again
Like the
Nightingale sings
My lines must be
full
Your years of
treading the Generals’ toes
Treading the Serpents’
tails
With your hard
boots of words
Defiling their
fangs
Defiling their
stings
Elusive like an
eel
Unchanging like
a hill
You are true OSO-YIN-KA
Our compound of
wit
Words are the
whales
You are the
ocean
Words are the
fighter jets
You are the sky
In you they
thrive
Our Kongi
At 80, the world
bows
At 81, the world
wonders
The stooge of
Ogun
The Irunmole of
words
The trumpet sounds
from you
The cock of the
masses
Calling our
attention to pains
That shroud the
masses
In the name of
governance
Even in your
septo-years
Your pen
continues to dance
Your words
wobble not
You prove your
WS
You lay eggs of
words on...
As you continue
to plough
The world of the
living
We will continue
to seek your feet
To seek your
voice
To seek your words
May your words
never wither
May your voice never
quavers
Professor of
Professors
Teacher of
Teachers
The Lion of our
Literature
I doff my cap.
©Seun
Adeleke, 2015.
Thank God election has come and gone. It is now left for the people's Presidential mandate--Retired General Muhammadu Buhari to avoid the pitfalls of the incumbent President. We will know your regime from your lieutenants--your ministers. We are here watching. Nigeria must fly. I congratulate Nigerians on the just concluded successful elections.
The Time (on the forthcoming election)
It
has come again
It was a great one today (27th December, 2014) at Bank-Anthony hall UI as great minds shower encomiums on Professor Niyi Osundare. His poems was examined from the scene of innocent innovation through the regime of anarchy till the merit award. It is good to be with Biodun Jeyifo and other great minds.
From the left, Professor Femi Osofisan, Professor Niyi Osundare and Professor Biodun Jeyifo at the Ibadan Committee for Truth and Development (ICTD) lecture, UI.
Election
is coming. Are you prepared? Are you going to sell your votes again?
I know you watch my shadows
truth is sacrosanct
you may delete me
but I will still be available
to finger the truth
on this keyboard
to the awaiting globe...
Vote right...we cannot continue in this mess...
Hack my blog again...
Good governance we deserve
A messiah we deserve
Out of this quagmire
Out of this bog
Sinking and sinking
Only to rise when ready
The time to rise again is here
Is this abyss our home
It is you
It is I
Who will change the fate
Our progenies await our decisions
Choose right
Choose with conscience
Choose for the future
Crack well!
Worse than blindness!
If you want to know two things that are worse than blindness in this age, THEY are
1. Inability to operate a computer and
2. Not participating in social networking.
LABYRINTH OF LIFE
What do you feel when you keep climbing a hill and you keep falling. When you feel like you are on a quicksand but you are on a hill. A year plus...what can i say but...
LABYRINTH OF LIFE
Wondering
Pondering
On the path to tread
In the throng of life
Tossing around like a dry leave on the ground
Labyrinth of life
Goodbye to an icon who changed the world with his pen..the panther of proverbs...Chinua Achebe
May your Soul rest in peace.
When
Things Fall Apart
When things fall apart
The centre
will not hold
The West
will not hear the East
The East
will not hear the West
Mere anarchy
will be let loosed.
When leaders
slumber
When youths
graduate unemployed
When people are
devil’s workshop
When crafts
turn wingless birds
When things
fall apart
Mere anarchy
will be let loosed.
When only
the few ride in gold
When the
masses walk the road of misery
When the
leaders church their fist on power
Like
wrestlers ready for battle
When the
young ones go hungry
When
vultures wait on the hungry ones
When things
fall apart
Mere anarchy
will be let loosed.
When
government are tortoise
When leaders
are fox
When the
masses are forced to Egypt
When
everybody is made weird wild
When things
fall apart
Mere anarchy
will be let loosed.
I want to give everybody visiting my blog a chance to read my motivational book...
Achieving your life goals treading the right paths
By
Adeleke
I. Oluwaseun
Foreword
Formulas give answers to
questions so are principles. Making it happen in life takes following the right
course to get life-changing goals. Principles are known to always prevail and
to find solution to problems though this may take a snail-pace at the start but
if faithfully followed will yield unending achievement that will bring global
fame. I examine the principles of HARDWORK in this book and how they can be
used to achieve life-changing goals. Many believe that success comes with ease
but I want you to know this is ones in a blue moon and never wait for such
because it may not come to you. Follow the principles of hardwork in this book,
make them your daily formulas and I assure you a global success in anything you
do.
H- How to start.
A- Attempt the hardest task.
R- Roll for the best
D- Do your best
Dine with the best
W- Wheel your life towards your goal(s)
O- Organize your thoughts to accommodate only your
goals.
R- Ready to reap your handiwork
K- Knit yourself with goal-getters and Achievers
Thank you.
Adeleke
I. Oluwaseun
1.
It is a pity that many
people find it hard to find their foothold in life due to indecision or the
various circumstances they are in.
How we start in life matters
a lot because it will determine our destination. A traveller traveling to a
point B must surely start from a point A. The problem people confront in life
on how to start in life is numerous.
Successful people are born
out of difficult situations but it is a pity that difficult situations have
steered most people away from the path they ought to tread.
People fail in life because
they start on a visionless and undetermined path which may be caused by
background or the people one start with in life. I could remember a time during
my secondary school years when I was a total failure in my academics I need to
retrace my step and look at how to start on the RIGHT path to success.
You will all agree that most
youths today find it hard to start on a well-befitting path due to situations
but the most successful people with the most difficult start-up situations.
A person travelling to a
destination of success must start on the RIGHT path of determination and focus.
The adage if you don’t know where you are going, you go back to where you are
coming from may not be applicable in life due to time but wondrous things have
been achieved by the determined old ones though this may not be an easy path to
tread for everybody. I have read about old people who started a business and
really succeeded.
Determination and focus are
two qualities for a good start-up. Determination can take anybody to places one
does not expect. I have been determined on personal issues and witnessed a huge
success (for example having in mind to finish something within a particular
time). Determination will surely lead to focus an instrument essential for
success.
To get determined, you must
day-dream your goal to get to where you are going. Leaders (good leaders) have been
known to be great dreamers. Abraham Lincoln dreamed of freedom for the slaves,
Martin Luther King jnr. dreamed an equal and free America for everybody,
Awolowo dreamed of a western Nigeria with good education for both the rich and
the poor.
Starting on the right path
is the key to success. Know how to start with determination, with focus, with
eyes wide open and mind ready to catch any flimsy opportunity to catapult you
as an individual to the greatest height.
How to start in life is
really a hard task for so many people but if you can get it right with the
right guidance and qualities like an athlete about to start a race and have the
mind of winning surely you will be the Ussain Bolt of success.
Take note, how you start in
life will determine where you are going, what you get and where you get to in
life.
Friend, you need to know
starting up in life is not easy. This is not to terrify but to prepare you to
buckle your belt well in life.
O
nly the determined and the focused enjoy the
successful end-product of a journey.
Success is a journey that can never be completed in
life.
Thank You.
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