Taofeek Olalekan Ogunperi

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Taofeek Olalekan Ogunperi Biography

Taofeek Olalekan Olanrewaju Ogunperi was born in Ikirun, Osun State, Nigeria. He is a son of Chief Raheem Amoo Ogunperi, Baale of Jagun Oyewo Compound and Baba Ode of Ikirun. His poems have appeared in Muse for World Peace Anthology, Armistice: an Indo-Nigerian Poetry anthology, on The Talented World, I Am Not A Silent Poet, News24 et cetera. He has also read his poems on OSBC Radio, and at various events. His debut book of a collection of poems, Twisted Tongues, was published with ATMAN Limited, Osogbo, and is also online on OkadaBooks. MicCom Golf Scholarship Award (2010/2011) , WAF Scholarship Award (2012/2013 - 2014/2015) , among others, are his wins.)

The Best Poem Of Taofeek Olalekan Ogunperi

We Are Flowers

(Tribute to a friend and a brother, Atoyebi Akeem. Akeem died on August 6,2017.)

I writhe this, in grieve, and it's not
Because before the idea might run
Into more lines, into stanzas
Into cantos, and into poems,
I may be done living.

It is because we are flowers
Brought forth from the earths
To glow in the sunlight until
A time when the night sets in
Unbeknown to us, and engraves us.

Truly, we wither, we know
But let us first blossom
For long, we ask the Maker
But He that keeps His words insists:
‘Not all shall blossom, for long'.

So, when one of us let down
His green flags and or surrenders
The yet not-glowing light within
His order, in our dis-ordered hearts, re-verses:
‘For long, blossom shall all not'.

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