Ola Joseph Kolawole

From the depth of the love-shaped dome within,
An ecstatic inconvenience thrives...
From the abundance of the same;
Encomiums abound,
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My heart is astir with gracious a panegyric
Readily inditing a lovely poem
Encomiums overwhelm my heart –
But sincere praise with no flattery
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IF TODAY IS MY LAST…

If today is my last,
I will go on my knees in the morning
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LIQUID LOVE

the road was just as it has been –
the same way it was months back when I left
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MY CONSCIENCE
I tiptoed to my mum’s kitchen
From the pot, I took a chicken
‘Cause my heart has sinse been hadened
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LIKE A PALM TREE.

Of all the trees in the forest,
Of all the plants I’ve seen,
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COMPASIONATE DELIVERANCE

How happy it is to discover
That your land is coloured by children
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ALL OF YOU.

Like a clay
Ready to conform to the potter’s way
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THE PURPLE FLOWER
I walked out I the summer
To behold at our backyard a wonder
Nature’s beauty epitomized by a farmer
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THE FRIEND THAT BEFRIENDED ME.

My heart is astir with gracious a panegyric
Readily inditing a lovely poem
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ALAPADUPE
…he that kills with the expectation of a vote of thanks…

“Hello Mama. I’m excited – It’s a boy”
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TOWARDS A PERFECT MAN*

Oh that I’m a Light
As though a lamp to their feet
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BUT FOR YOU..

but for Your Wisdom,
My parents won’t have existed
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FATHER FORGFIVE ME.

“Father forgive them
For they know not what they do”
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AMIDST THE GLOOM

“My God, My God…
Why have You forsaken me?
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ARUGBOOJO (The Ancient of days)

Call Him the Oldest
Call Him the Wisest
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DECAGONICAL PERSONALITY OF THE DEITY.

*1*
in Him was Life
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YOUR JABEZ CAN STILL BE LOVED …

Show me a man that is unloveable
And I will show you a man void of glory in every sense –
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AT ANY COST (Dedicated to the Missionaries)

After trekking 40 miles in three days,
Climbing the mountainous path to the village
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AFRICA, MY AFRICA

Back in the years of the b.c.
When I was but a spirit in the heavenlies
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