Shhh.
Silence.
The red robed supplicants
Are sequestered
Inside the Sistine.
They speak
In silent supplications
To the spirits
To pronounce a Pontiff.
The stewards are set
To send the smoke.
The smoke
That must be white.
Oct 11, 2025
Oct 11, 2025 at 8:42 AM UTC
* Only fools try to control time.
* Consequentialism should first deal with subjective rather than objective definitions of good and bad.
* The truth should not be silenced because it gives some people goose bumps.
* The issue of choice does not arise in abortion. People should not have choice to or not to commit ******
* In life poetry is replicated, in poetry life is explained.
*Applause is the best prize for an artiste.
*One who has greatness recognizes greatness.
*Justice is blind but does not bite the fingers that feed her.
*People get rich by working hard to create wealth and also by working hard to keep it.
*Most Laws Are Anti-Poor Because The Poor Do Not Become Law Makers.
*Do not throw stones at the other person because you would not know what the other person would throw in return.
*Freedom without the necessary restrictions is Absolutism. Absolutism in freedom works both ways; For and against you.
*The concept of Royalty is antithetical to the universally accepted maxim that; All men (and women) are born equal.
*How would gays contribute to continuity of humanity since there would be no conception?
*Apart from courage, you must have a good dose of stupidity to be a writer. You must be stupid enough to think that you can change the world with written words.
*There is always a confluence where idealism and reality meet.
*Laws are made and enforced by the conquerors for the conquered.
*The relevance of a writer should be measured by the number of ordinary people conversant with the works of the writer.
*The complacency of today will loom large like incubus and summon us to repay debts incurred, the time will be tomorrow.
*I will speak to generations after mine. Mine is almost irredeemable. The ones before mine are irredeemable.
*Any man can be controlled by a woman who knows how to use her natural instruments of control.
*Power protrudes from the brain, biceps and ***** albeit in variations.
*The toughest person can be softened by a loved one.
*Literature remembers the past, memorizes the present and imagines the future.
*The surest route to greatness is to help others to achieve greatness.
*The pen may be mightier than the sword, but the sword handles issues faster.
*Money may be preferred by many to intellect, yet money remains one of the least products of intellect.
*The concept of formal education was developed by illiterates.
*Equality of all before the law is part of the hypocrisy of law.
*Founders of major religions started by "blaspheming".
*People who consort with oppressive regimes always end up being victims of such regimes' oppression.
*When a child is abused in any form, society is distorted, because the child's adult life will in some ways manifest such abuses.
*News reporters should be both pro and anti establishment, depending on where truth and justice are found at any given time.
*Decency means adherence to at least minimum standards of civility.
*I believe in the universality of arts and literature. I believe that they should appeal to all persuasions.
*Humanity is one in diversity.
*The first King was not a Prince.
*Writers who write for the future do not usually win awards in the present.
*War is an unnecessary instrument of peace.
*Unconditional makes love unreasonable, motivating conditions make it reasonable.
*There are two categories of people we respect, those we love and those we fear.
*Loyalty is a major requirement even in hell.
*The rule in a rat race is that there are no rules.
*War mongers need peace to plan wars.
*It takes more to protect wealth than it took to create it.
*Anything legitimate, including selling crayfish is better than being a poet. At least, you would not be a poverty stricken super star.
*Christianity and Islam, both owe their spread to terrorism in its broader definition, what they preferred and still prefer to call "holy wars". The difference is that presently, Christianity is in control of the important spheres of power namely: political, economic and cultural, while Islam is fighting to balance the terror.
*Literary Critics should be the least of writers’ problems.
*Literary Critics are not gods, they are humans, so their appreciation of literary works are a function of their beliefs, etc.
*Critiques are not and should never be taken as holy writs. The best judges of literary productions should be the consumers, not the producers and/or the professional literary critics.
*Literary Critics should be placed in the category of consumers of literature where they rightly belong and not in the category of gatekeepers of Literature, because Literature have no gate.
*Every human have two personalities; The public and the private. The two are largely different.
*There is a disconnection between Christ and many Christians.
*Pentecostal Preachers in Africa would become irrelevant if there are no more notions of "all woes are from witches and wizards".
*No writer is rated appropriately. A writer is either over rated or under rated.
Oct 11, 2025
Oct 11, 2025 at 8:38 AM UTC
You built a castle
Where you hold literature hostage.
You call your castle
Canon.
Gatekeepers
Guard your big iron gate,
Brandishing
Weapons of exclusion.
Your accomplices,
The moguls
Who publish the words.
The critics,
Those self appointed
Judges of worthy literature
And the translators,
All are on hand
To give you helping hand
In your unholy task of exclusion.
We have gathered
On this new square,
Not to invade your castle,
Not to beg to enter your castle.
We have gathered
To build alternative canon
With no wall and no gate,
With no gatekeepers.
Alternative canon
Where none will be denied entry.
We have gathered
To build alternative canon
Where the consumers of literature
Will be the judges of worthy literature.
Sep 21, 2025
Sep 21, 2025 at 8:14 AM UTC
(1)The Artificial Humans:
Weird world evolves,
Weird creatures
Wired to gadgets
Evolve.
They articulate
And gesticulate.
They giggle
And tread
On the trajectories of living.
Their brains brim
With artificial intelligence,
They act like humans.
They are
The artificial humans.
Technology savvy humans
Reconstruct our humanity,
The religionists
Resign to the new humanity,
The ethicists
Seek to etch
Unethical on our minds.
The elasticity of our civilization
Stretches
And stretches,
Our civilization overstretched.
Years to come,
Our civilization
Overstretched,
Will snap.
(2)I Am Poet Of The Streets:
I am piqued
When I am profiled
A protegee of prominent poets.
I am pained
When I am pronounced
Just a poet.
I am poet of the streets.
I walk the streets
And sing
My strident songs of protest,
Giving succour
To the indigent indigenes
Of the streets,
Impoverished
By the scoundrels who rule over them.
Mother muse
Mills my inspiration more
When I straddle the podiums
And sing for the streets.
The scorn,
The sneer
Of the scoundrels
Give flip to my resolve
To sing
And sing for the streets,
I am poet of the streets.
(3)We, The Poets, We Are Protesters:
All day,
All night,
We, the poets, we protest.
We protest
All week,
All year,
We, the poets, we are protesters.
We, the poets,
We seek
Neither protest partners,
Nor protest sponsors.
We, the poets,
We have no empty pockets to fill,
We have no opponents to witch-hunt,
We crave not
For the potentates' positions
Or their mouthwatering morsels.
We, the poets, we protest
"Cause this domain is *****
Made *****
By descendants of the devil.
We, the poets,
We are protesters,
We are the mouthpieces
Of the Supreme Deity.
Sep 21, 2025
Sep 21, 2025 at 3:14 AM UTC
They massed on the square,
The army of the masses.
Fists clenched,
Brandishing few swords
And few guns.
Not garbed in combat gears
Chanting war chants.
They advanced upon
The fighting force
Of the deep states
Garbed in full combat gears,
Fist fight ensued.
The fist fight
Turned into a sword fight,
The sword fight
turned into a gun fight.
The fighting force
Of the deep states
Vanquished
The army of the masses,
Melancholy enveloped the land.
Justice and equity
Became prisoners of war,
Accountability became victim of war.
Deprivation
Became companion of the people.
The deep states
Without conscience
Clicked wine glasses
And rode
In siren fitted automobiles.
The roads littered with potholes,
The streets littered with dirts
And emanciated beggars.
Sep 21, 2025
Sep 21, 2025 at 3:09 AM UTC