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Jan 2016 · 302
PAY.
Dada Olowo Eyo Jan 2016
Dear husband, this commodity is free,
Your mind is always on a distracting spree,
All I want from you is some attention,
And you can ignore my stifling emotion.
Dec 2015 · 244
SINGLE MATED.
Dada Olowo Eyo Dec 2015
How impossible to remain with the one,
But penguins do it, and eagles, too,
Men say it cannot be done,
And women pray for just us two.
Dec 2015 · 491
WHAT NOEL?
Dada Olowo Eyo Dec 2015
Two thousand year old controversy,
Of a manger, and of northern lights,
Of pagans or saintly rights,
Lord, have mercy.
Dec 2015 · 222
THE WOMAN RED.
Dada Olowo Eyo Dec 2015
Whence had it come,
That filthy breath of ***,
Cast away this rottenness,
Eating away our wholesomeness.
Dec 2015 · 247
THE EYE.
Dada Olowo Eyo Dec 2015
From hell came an amazing light,
A spectacle, a bedazzling sight,
It went out in to the people,
To cause many a deceiving ripple.
Dec 2015 · 245
NO FUEL.
Dada Olowo Eyo Dec 2015
We sleep daily at the pumps,
And get crushed by failed brakes,
This country staggers to the dumps,
And everything is up for cheap takes.
Nigerians will NOT celebrate the Yuletide but spend endless nights on fuel queues at gas stations.
Nov 2015 · 409
HOME.
Dada Olowo Eyo Nov 2015
Familiar cocoa trees, carpet grass and banana,
Mango, orange, and good old papaya
Shady cool to roam and play,
And assurances of warm love everyday.
Nov 2015 · 300
KOGI (2).
Dada Olowo Eyo Nov 2015
The dead man left trouble alive,
The quick are stuck in a power race,
The blind woman with sword and scale,
Scolds all her children and sends them to school.
A certain gubernatorial candidate died after the election umpire declared the result of voting inconclusive. Then came a woman spiritualist that claimend to have powers to raise the dead...the rest is history.
Nov 2015 · 407
KOGI (1).
Dada Olowo Eyo Nov 2015
The charlatan went into fervent mumbo jumbo,
Throwing the crowd into a crazed uproar,
But the stiff remained in cold limbo,
Unperturbed, and oblivious, of their stupid frenzy.
A certain gubernatorial candidate died after the election umpire declared the result of voting inconclusive. Then came a woman spiritualist that claimend to have powers to raise the dead...the rest is history.
Nov 2015 · 236
BESPOKE.
Dada Olowo Eyo Nov 2015
This maker of craft,
Draws an angry blank,
Shakes off this annoying shaft,
And misses out on smiling to the bank.
Nov 2015 · 196
TONGUES.
Dada Olowo Eyo Nov 2015
Behind you when the chips are down,
Pretenders to be your friend,
Reveal who they really are,
And stop acting like they truly care.
Nov 2015 · 246
WINKERS.
Dada Olowo Eyo Nov 2015
Searched through the ages,
For the other pea in the pod,
And whenwhen she was found,
The whole world came around.
Nov 2015 · 220
THE SUN DIED.
Dada Olowo Eyo Nov 2015
He refused to shine,
Then we looked to the east,
But found broken rays,
Alas, these are sorrowful days.
Nov 2015 · 173
BLOW OUT.
Dada Olowo Eyo Nov 2015
I will **** love tonight,
Because it killed me first,
I have lost the fight,
Because it took away my thirst.
Nov 2015 · 271
WILL-O-WILL.
Dada Olowo Eyo Nov 2015
The will to carry on,
When the back is broken;
Mere words will not do,
And certainly not a cockadoodledoo.
Nov 2015 · 309
PRIMITIVE.
Dada Olowo Eyo Nov 2015
They steal us blind,
Embezzle livelihoods of generations unborn,
No different from European barbarians,
Who today pass off as modern grammarians.
Nov 2015 · 253
NO WAY.
Dada Olowo Eyo Nov 2015
Love is not a two way street,
For when you get in,
And pair with whom you see fit,
Then you give and give, even through the thick and thin.
Nov 2015 · 215
THE SLOW.
Dada Olowo Eyo Nov 2015
When I came to,
Awakening to lost love,
I felt my heart wrong,
And knew I will never be strong.
Nov 2015 · 176
UNBOUND.
Dada Olowo Eyo Nov 2015
Love is not a chain,
To tie me down,
So set me free,
To love you as I please.
Nov 2015 · 192
FATED.
Dada Olowo Eyo Nov 2015
Nowhere to go now,
I am stuck with you,
To ride on the crests and troughs,
Together smiling through the smooths and roughs.
Nov 2015 · 353
SHUT UP!
Dada Olowo Eyo Nov 2015
Shameless outpouring,
Of crocodile mourning,
Two faced human beings,
Putting out shameless things.
Nov 2015 · 370
DISHONOURABLE MEN.
Dada Olowo Eyo Nov 2015
Beady eyed devils,
The very spawns of hades,
They come in bloodthirsty shades,
Like troubling, annoying canker-weevils.
Nov 2015 · 232
DIRTY DEEDS.
Dada Olowo Eyo Nov 2015
Give me a gun,
And I shall draw a hole in your mouth,
This ain't no pun,
Or a jolly trip to the south.
Nov 2015 · 416
SNOOP.
Dada Olowo Eyo Nov 2015
Tip toe, tip toe,
And there she goes,
Light feet on heavy *****,
Hugging the night in red nylon tights.
Nov 2015 · 198
THE FRAME.
Dada Olowo Eyo Nov 2015
The reference from whence,
All citations came,
The unseen artist in the sky,
Whose stroke is an eternal masterpiece.
Nov 2015 · 218
THE POWER.
Dada Olowo Eyo Nov 2015
I make me what I want,
Insecure, shrivelled and broken,
Or happy and giddy,
A fun, go lucky daddy.
Nov 2015 · 257
GET HOOKED.
Dada Olowo Eyo Nov 2015
They tell you to marry,
And nigh, not to tarry,
Then they leave you high,
Tattered pockets, indebted and dry.
Nov 2015 · 213
TERROR!
Dada Olowo Eyo Nov 2015
What goes through your mind,
When you blow up humankind?
What goes through your mind,
When you take all the peace that we can find?
Nov 2015 · 182
FEEL FREE.
Dada Olowo Eyo Nov 2015
But in the face of tyranny,
With steely claws,
And eyes like fire,
Thunder spewing alpha daggers.
Nov 2015 · 617
HARMATTAN (2).
Dada Olowo Eyo Nov 2015
Red dust everywhere,
In the wake of every gear,
Now the rains are gone,
Time to have some hot, dry fun.
Nov 2015 · 124
GONE LOVER.
Dada Olowo Eyo Nov 2015
Far from my embrace,
Left in this coldly place,
If again, I could touch your face,
And fill this lonely space.
Oct 2015 · 488
THE FALSE GOD.
Dada Olowo Eyo Oct 2015
And cast they, him, Shadrach,
And alongside, Meshach,
Bound with them, too, Abednego;

But cold raged the fire,
Even seven times hotter,
For within stood the glorious One;

Spake He to the inferno,
As though it were snow,
"Touch not these, my annointed sons."
Oct 2015 · 217
ANDROID.
Dada Olowo Eyo Oct 2015
We have no right,
To question God,
Because He has nothing to answer,
For the evil that we have committed.
Oct 2015 · 405
BALANCE OF MADNESS.
Dada Olowo Eyo Oct 2015
The fifty-five-year-old toddler,
And her daddy of seventy-two,
Played, "I am a soldier,"
So, what can you do?
Nigeria is 55 and the President is a 72-year-old who was a military coupist that seized power 32 years ago.
Oct 2015 · 239
CHEMICAL IMBALANCE.
Dada Olowo Eyo Oct 2015
When mother screamed at me,
Father broke into a wide grin,
By heavens, I am not sixteen!
My bald head should indeed make me free!
Oct 2015 · 270
TOAST.
Dada Olowo Eyo Oct 2015
Like peas in a pod,
We have been matched by Almighty God,
To be in sweet love together,
And to hold fast, unto each other, forever.
This is the actual Toast to my wedding coming up on December 5 2015! Aye!!!
Oct 2015 · 215
FIRED DOWN.
Dada Olowo Eyo Oct 2015
After a cup of strong coffee and orijin,
My mind opened to everything,
I could feel love and brilliance,
All at the same instance.
'Orijin' is a Nigerian bitters with alcohol in it.
Oct 2015 · 520
TRAPPED.
Dada Olowo Eyo Oct 2015
I be a genius in a bottle,
Lost at sea, bobbing in the scorchlight,
For a hundred years I await the right,
To put my mind on the throttle.
Oct 2015 · 228
SWEAT.
Dada Olowo Eyo Oct 2015
Bend nigh, ebony goddess,
Arrange thine voluptuousness,
Take mine instrument,
And warm it forever, in a moment.
Oct 2015 · 231
GLORY.
Dada Olowo Eyo Oct 2015
Come, spread out beautifully,
Lay gorgeously on the soft satin,
But give me forever to savour,
Such wonder between these mounds.
Oct 2015 · 222
WEDGED.
Dada Olowo Eyo Oct 2015
Between clarity and the simple,
A place neither you nor I,
Will find, as a point, so high,
As that of a rising dimple.
Oct 2015 · 264
THE ONE AND THE SAME.
Dada Olowo Eyo Oct 2015
At every annoying turn,
He goes on, and on, and on,
She knows everybody,
And even the ones criminally unworthy.
Oct 2015 · 186
THE DRIFT AWAY.
Dada Olowo Eyo Oct 2015
Perhaps our relationship,
Was a dusty smokescreen,
And the years of pretend friendship,
Were an unnecessary din.
Oct 2015 · 226
REALITY.
Dada Olowo Eyo Oct 2015
Expect evil from everyone,
Accept all good that come thine way,
Truthfulness and sincerity; love and  justice, all are well worn,
For life is not all amorous fun, nor humorous play.
Oct 2015 · 247
ABSOLUTION.
Dada Olowo Eyo Oct 2015
And when the demons,
From your unlikeable past;

Drink sodas and lemons,
With your present cast;

Know ye that time calls upon thee,
To make peace your cup of tea.
Oct 2015 · 258
ABSOLUTION.
Dada Olowo Eyo Oct 2015
And when the demons,
From your unlikeable past;

Drink sodas and lemons,
With your present cast;

Know ye that time calls upon thee,
To make peace your cup of tea.
Oct 2015 · 243
APOCALYPSE (1).
Dada Olowo Eyo Oct 2015
What if the world is ended,
And we are condemned,
To suffer trials and tribulations,
And the warring of many nations?
End of the world.
Oct 2015 · 200
FIFTY FIVE.
Dada Olowo Eyo Oct 2015
Eternal loop of stupidity,
The constant motions without movements,
Pursuing a bleak reality,
And continuing on meaningless comments.
Nigeria is 55. We are still toddlers, however.
Sep 2015 · 265
THE DUMP.
Dada Olowo Eyo Sep 2015
Atop the porcelain,
Minding my business,
The world outside,
Moving on without interest.
Sep 2015 · 303
MOON BLOOD.
Dada Olowo Eyo Sep 2015
A sliver of grey,
Peeking through the ashen sky,
Then all turned crimson,
And the world hushed in unison.
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