Joseph Oladehinde Ibikunle Poems

Bereaved,
We got the news and believed.
That our daughters will be freed;
And Nafisat, too, one of them.
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We laugh, dine
...and dance together.
Yet, the road on which
...we travel is lonesome.
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Weep, weep, Palm tree!
Let your tears brim the gourd
I know with pain you poured
I know your servitude is free
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Come fast, come fast!
Oh! 2 O'clock, come fast.
Run thou hither
Like a fowl chased by a cheetah
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We have come with cola nuts
To knot death till our old ages
We neglect the shelter of our huts
To pay the price for being renegades.
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We live
like fatherless children;
our rights become privileges.
From our servitude,
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Come, O immoralities!
Shall we play 'Simon says'?
So I'll shout with all my abilities,
'Simon says, 'Go out of our ways! ''
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I have no bequest
That you may from me request
But I have a piece of advice
Which I suppose may suffice.
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African coiffure,
Coal of beauty and demure,
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Many fetuses had come and gone
But not until when he was born.
There was no hope he would stay
But he stay'd and made his way.
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