Niran Okewole Biography
Niran Okewole was born in September 1977. He studied Medicine at the University of Ibadan and thereafter trained as a psychiatrist.
His poems have appeared in Mindfire Review, Farafina, African Writing, Africanwriters.com, Saraba and Maple Tree Literary Supplement. He has published a volume of poems titled Logarhythms. He won the MUSON Festival poetry prize in 2002 and 2003, and the Sawubona Musicjam/Berlin Festival poetry prize in 2008.
Vendor of Dreams
You are a recorder of rag-ridden destinies,
a pimp-impressario.
You sell us phantasies in cloud-packets.
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Abnormalities of view-foresight,insight,
Second sight and all solecisms of seeing-
Called vision.
- Wole Soyinka
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What does it matter if
today at the round the cleft-lipped doctor
snacked on my innards? Elevenses, my ears!
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Whatever is, is not.
Sure as the horse pulls the plough,
things wear out. We watch
the heat of things flow out as time
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Rising to the surface in a sea
of dreams
a forgotten worshipper swims to shore
awash with the debris of
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