Kolawole Ajao Poems

1 3 5 7 9: oddity
2 4 6 8 10: evenness
The best numerologist of you is you
Nobody knows your number like you
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When next I come to earth
And if reincarnation were
genuine
I 'd like to come the way I
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Even in the rich man's house
Poor man's food is being eaten
You had better eat rich man's food
In the poor man's house
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One beautiful man named Lawrence
and his bosom friend called Michael
Chose to re-christen me in 2009
They both slept and had one dream
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Darkness descended at noon
Rain fell after it vowed never to fall again
Is there still honey in the hive?
Will we further see the epiphyte glued to the palm?
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I met a nitwit
In his titbits
Talk tommyrot
In a manner hurt
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Ogidimo,
That was the splendour of my boyhood
In the southwestern divide of our land
Where my mother excreted me
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The fatwa was issued on us
Amidst the darkest of nights
To move away from the coast
To the trajectory of our world
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The sunlight of spring comes amidst welcome
Why?
It brings refreshment and calmness
That you and I ever anticipated
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Sleep seemed to have wished me au revoir
I was left to rollick amidst a strange euphoria
I saw mirage within a myopic distance
Then some poets diagnosed what my nausea was
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