Niran Okewole Poems

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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Osunfunke, female alter ego of Morpheus,
dips a calabash into the great pond
and offers it to the famished voyager.
"Drink, and replenish your thirst from the
river of dreams. Then wake to act.'
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"Fragments
we cannot hold, linger
parings of intuition
footsteps
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