Shola Balogun
Shola Balogun Poems
The earthen lamp, the wandering eyes,
The dimly lit floor, the rising shadow,
The sudden silence of lone whispers
In the undivided hour,
...
Let me take you on a walk
To the moon tonight, Beloved.
The words of your lips
...
Déjame llevarte de paseo
a la luna esta noche, Amado.
Las palabras de tus labios son como uvas frescas de la vid.
...
¡Podría ser el iniciador
de la lengua de Etiopía!
Pensé que los rompeolas del Egeo,
golpeando en las extremidades
...
(Canciones para Jazz)
Un río de vino
En el beso de tus labios:
...
Como mal vestido Zlelponith lamentando
El cuerpo destrozado de su hijo se atenuó
Bajo las piedras talladas de Dagan,
Alcanzó profundamente en su dolor
...
Bóvedas de gran pendiente,
sostuve tus soles con mucho
gusto.
¡Qué tipo de vino y qué
...
(with drums and cymbals)
I journeyed
Deep into the the circles
Of wind, with songs.We traversed the strange
...
(avec tambours et cymbales)
J'ai voyagé Profondément dans les cercles du vent, avec des chansons.
Nous avons traversé l'étrange
Distance de Yamaltu Deba à Malamade
...
Last night, when I thought of you,
The moon stood still on the brow of my eyes.
On the distant pool, where your shadow walked,
With you I came along too,
...
I ride on the waves
of their lies
and tell how vicious men
master vain manners
...
(Songs for Jazz)
A river of wine
In the kiss of your lips:
...
Shola Balogun Biography
Shola Balogun is a scholar, author, and theatre-trained playwright with a great love of teaching, writing, and research. Adept at engaging the society through stage plays, poetry and films with interest in examining discourses on theatrical aesthetics through the lens of indigenous African traditions, performing identity and hybridity in Contemporary Nigerian Theatre, Balogun's credits include Delos: A Journal of Translation and World Literature, a University of Florida Press journal (with Abiodun J. Macaulay) , the International Journal of African Society, Cultures and Traditions (UK) , Philologist, a Journal of the Faculty of Philology, University of Banja Luka (with Abiodun J. Macaulay) , Nicosia Beyond Barriers: Voices from a Divided City, The Invisible Bear, a Journal affiliated with Duke University's English Department Graduate Poetry Working Group in Durham, North Carolina, The Tau: The Literary and Visual Art Journal of Lourdes University, Sylvania, Ohio, Nebo: A Literary Journal of the Department of English, Arkansas Tech University, Russellville, and several other literary journals, magazines, and anthologies. Winner of the First Prize, Festival Of Peace Poetry Award (2005) , Olaudah Equiano Poetry Prize (2002) . He lives in Lagos, Nigeria, West Africa.)
The Best Poem Of Shola Balogun
Eyes In The Glen
The earthen lamp, the wandering eyes,
The dimly lit floor, the rising shadow,
The sudden silence of lone whispers
In the undivided hour,
The woven hearse on wheeled rostrums
As wilted knot of hands thaw
To loose your drapes-
Then the coral dialectics of shapely ambits! impulsive
Elesin Oba
Would spare a long-loved clout for the pall
To untying beads of carousal,
Falstaff
In his lagging steps could not have been more
Unperturbed to part with brew
And the succulent fullness of dingles-
I stand tiptoed on reclining rail
And unflustered by the rants of lightsome gulls.
Shola Balogun Comments
Shola Balogun Quotes
Writing, to be a good trade, cannot just stop at being an impulse.The inspiration may have to go through several creative recreations. Every child can scribble as well, and as much bring the last nail to the coffin of true creativity. Many writers have ruined the trade.
The one common greater mistake that people make is not in putting the cart before the horse.It is putting the cart too far from the horse.
A spendthrift must have had something to spend.
The art of poetry is knowing how to reveal the truth without going into details by pretending to tell a lie.
Anonymous is a genius who is not given credit for his work.
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