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213 · May 2016
SON OF JACK.
Dada Olowo Eyo May 2016
From sun up to sun down,
He plays the community clown,
Wipes off the lady's frown,
This talented man about town.
213 · Nov 2015
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.
213 · Dec 2018
THE CLONE IN THE VILLA.
Dada Olowo Eyo Dec 2018
Good title for a Nollywood flick,
Script writers assemble!
One week to belt out a wobble,
But try not to get into trouble;

So, rumour around town,
That a Sudanese man is actually...in Aso Rock!,
Wonders shall never cease in that country,
But what effrontery!

"Well, could be fictional, this matter,"
"Don't take it literally,"
Posited a recent opposition egghead,
Playing advocate for the other coconut head;

That country is in trouble,
Caught in several problems,
There seems no respite in sight,
Even with assurances from the president, the other night;

Hell, what's the difference anyway,
The real one was no better,
The people of state should accept their fate,
Now, before it is too late.
IPOB says Buhari, the Nigeria president is cloned. The president said that it is the real self. Washington Post said that that is what a clone would say, anyway. Shehu Sanni said that the matter shouldn't be taken literally. And Nigerians wouldn;t just let it go.
212 · Nov 2024
SCARRED BY INNOCENCE.
Dada Olowo Eyo Nov 2024
The corruption of worldly living,
On this campus that we live in,
Falsehoods in large measures thriving,
A haven for demons to thrive in;

Where religion has failed,
For those who practise such,
The lack of it has helped much,
On angels wings to safety sailed;

The mystery can never be unravelled,
Though open for everyone to marvel,
Opaque even in the clearest marble,
Blind to the widest travelled;

The kingdom is for the childlike truly,
The little ones unspolled by immorality,
Unaware of the smallest bit of hypocrisy,
Certainly not for the decadent and unruly;

Where several lost precious lives,
A child's in ways most baffling lives,
Wherefore the soul that sins dies,
Away from nether gloom, alive the innocent lives.
DOE, JULY 2003.
212 · Oct 2018
ON SO MANY LEVELS.
Dada Olowo Eyo Oct 2018
The lovelessness breaks the heart,
The outpouring of hatred among The People of State,
The bequeathing of sadness to the generations,
The unwillingness to take a different turn.
Human life is worth no more than pulling grass off the side of the road in Nigeria. Hospitals have become death centres. Doctors and Nurses do not care. Old and young die with reckless abandon. People pay through their noses for their own death
212 · Jul 2019
SNIPER.
Dada Olowo Eyo Jul 2019
And the preferred utility,
For use in this morbidity,
Gets axed by authority,
As a matter of citizen security;
But no sooner than say, 'mary poppins!' accidental deaths are recorded by it's application in hair lice removal or eradication - two persons: one infant & a graduate; both died when the organophosphate - ****** - was copiously applied in hair, then covered up; only for the applicants to be found dead next morning.
Prior to this, the organophosphate had been responsible for majority of deaths by consuming contaminated beans, yam flour after its use as pesticide to preserve agro products, even smoked fish, too. Then Nigerians began a series of using the deadly fluid in ending their lives for sundry reasons.
A knee **** ban by the Nigerian food and drug admin body came into effect but mass illiteracy of the people regarding the nature of such phosphates may actually lead to more deaths in the future as people will find others means of being creative with the one shot killer. SAD.
211 · May 2019
BAR. POOL.
Dada Olowo Eyo May 2019
When the impossible happens,
Even with god on their side,
They believed, never to give up,
Knowing they will never walk alone.
On this day May 7, 2019, Liverpool overtimes a 3 - 0 deficit to trounce Barcelona 4 - 0 (4 - 3 on aggregate) at Anfield, to qualify for the UEFA Champions League final. UNBELIEVABLE!
211 · Apr 2018
BEDROOM LECTURERS.
Dada Olowo Eyo Apr 2018
Hunters of vulnerable daughters of Eve,
Preying on weakened virtues,
Randy pedagogues  in the temple of callousness,
Eating forbidden fruits, ripe or unripe.
A lecturer is in the public eye for demanding *** for marks. the disgraced lecturer was recorded on the phone by a female would-be female victim during a negotiation session...Nigeria is currently abuzz over 'tis damining ******
211 · Jul 2017
EVERY BAD THING, I AM.
Dada Olowo Eyo Jul 2017
Because of you, my father,
My conscience can turn away,
From the things I would rather be,
On to the more pleasant and worthy;

Although you are gone,
The precepts you showed me,
Guide my hand when the sun comes up,
And tucks me in bed, every night, without fear.
211 · Oct 2015
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.
210 · Jul 2019
TORN.
Dada Olowo Eyo Jul 2019
Broken pieces of self,
Dusty upon the lone shelf,
Alone in the dark corner
Covered in shame forever.
210 · Aug 2019
NOUGHT. CASE.
Dada Olowo Eyo Aug 2019
In the matter of,
Justice versus commitment,
The defense argued lovingly,
About the prosecution's sweetness.
209 · Jan 2015
ETERNAL WISHES.
Dada Olowo Eyo Jan 2015
If I had my way,
And fate, not any say,
Our daughters would have your eyes,
And every night, not cold as ice.
209 · Apr 2018
MARCH ON THE ROCK.
Dada Olowo Eyo Apr 2018
Fear  wrapped itself around the hearts of the children of state,
Daily cowed by hunger, starved of enlightenment and forced by repression,
The horizon is widely bleak and uninspiring, spirit anchored to a hopeless future,
Chained to empty promises, they float aimlessly in airless skies;

The way out is obvious even to the unsighted,
That in one accord lay the keys to soaring freedom,
Taking the seat of power by force,
And daming the consequences to achieve the ultimate utopia.
208 · Jan 2018
ELECTRONIC BABY.
Dada Olowo Eyo Jan 2018
She picks up and smashes my old cell phone,
Ears ***** at every text and ringing tone,
Naturally drawn to ones and zeros,
And excited by every four-gee and byte stream combos.
206 · May 2016
DRY DOWN.
Dada Olowo Eyo May 2016
We say our oil,
They say their curse,
That a time will come,
When the pipes will sing no more.
Nigeria's oil rich Niger Delta is a squalid region in the midst of petrodollars. Many pray the oil dries up as other regions discover crude at a time when the black gold keeps hitting all time lows and militants continue blowing pipelines.
206 · Apr 2019
FROM CHIBOK TO DAPCHI.
Dada Olowo Eyo Apr 2019
Over two hundred girls, taken, many moons ago,
Then more than one hundred, stolen,  in the same vein,
While the politics of stupidity serenades their incompetence,
Beer parlour intellectualism fingers the minds of many keyboard warriors.
Over five years after the Chibok girls were abducted by boko haram, the government of the day grapples with the rescue of hundreds of girls in captivity. Previous government bungled any chances of rescue by jumping on conspiracy bandwagon. SHAME.
205 · Aug 2015
HOLD ON.
Dada Olowo Eyo Aug 2015
May true love seek you out,
And not some randy tout,
Your own man to complete you,
And honour you all through.
205 · Apr 2019
THE UNFORTUNATES.
Dada Olowo Eyo Apr 2019
A million idiots,
Are more powerful,
Than a billion eggheads,
That slept on their senses.
205 · Aug 2020
THE MATTER.
Dada Olowo Eyo Aug 2020
What influence has the created,
Over their creator?
If you were hired,
Then you can be fired.
204 · Nov 2015
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.
Dada Olowo Eyo Apr 2019
Ofcourse not, mister!
Everywhere your position may take you,
Even your power, too,
But not for the wiser!

Your empty refrains are hollow,
And your dead promises, too,
You do not have a clue,
Want to bribe tomorrow?
Dada Olowo Eyo Dec 2017
Where art thine empathy,
In the  times tears hath diluted  endless gushing of blood?
Rivers of agonizing  empty stomachs sleeping rough,
And those missing limbs never to know the warmth of a  loving embrace.
203 · Dec 2019
999.
Dada Olowo Eyo Dec 2019
The thousandth but one,
On this journey of four lines,
And although I'm not done,
I rest, a while, from the scribbling climes.
202 · Apr 2019
ABOMINATION.
Dada Olowo Eyo Apr 2019
Chasing tattoos, dreadlocks and bling,
These ones don't know a thing!
They take life at the pull!
Of a trigger meant to protect all!

Dregs of the force, idiotic,
Drunken, high on narcotic,
Dressing inordinately, oozing,
Dreadfully unamusing,

They create a ****** mess,
Harbingers of sadness,
Candidates of the hottest parts of hell,
Deserving, one and all, the same horror they constantly sell.
Enough to make any sane mind livid! They have killed another innocent young Nigerian, again! The Nigerian Police Force is a terrible security agency that has demonic officers up and down its rank and file. Infamous units created to fight armed robbers have become roving task masters shaking down anyone that looks good or dressed fly. Arbitrary killing, torturing or maiming hapless people is their stock in trade and nobody from the president of that country to governors of states across the federation have said or done anything tangible to put a permanent reign on the bloodsuckers. The unsettling peace of the graveyard may just indicate a ****** revolution around the corner. INEVITABLE.
202 · Nov 2019
EMERGING.
Dada Olowo Eyo Nov 2019
There were days I crawled on my dozens,
And set my mandibles to the dirt,
Rejoice, o creatures, at my rebirth!
For today I take up wings to soar among the heavens.
201 · Jan 2015
IN THE NAME OF...
Dada Olowo Eyo Jan 2015
Soaked in crimson,
I lay lifeless, shattered and cold,
I kissed my wife this morning,
But at sundown she is mourning.
201 · Jun 2019
PAY BACK.
Dada Olowo Eyo Jun 2019
For all the love I spent on you,
The poems and moonlight serenades,
The bunnies and beautiful Christmases,
All of these but you never loved me, too.
199 · Jan 2019
THE FOREVER, EVER.
Dada Olowo Eyo Jan 2019
For the loyalty of a child,
Cannot be in doubt,
In the face of uncertainty,
Rest assured;

Where the bond between,
Parent and child is true,
Then trust is not afar,
Belief, even stronger.
When my child woke up restless in the middle of the night and cuddled on my chest, I myself pressed to answer nature's can call, I only could please for her to allow me go; I gave her my mobile phone and said, "hold this for me, I'll be back." Many minutes later, I found her still sitting up, waiting for me; and after she handed me the phone, my two-year old said, "take," then went back to sleep. I was beyond impressed...forever.
199 · Oct 2015
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.
199 · Oct 2019
ABROAD.
Dada Olowo Eyo Oct 2019
Here we are,
Living within our horizon,
Oblivious of the beyond things,
Images startling to the senses;

And opportunity meets resources,
Things fall into place,
Aboard the wings an eagle,
Off to see the things beyond.
198 · May 2016
WARM BEND.
Dada Olowo Eyo May 2016
When love turned the corner,
Into the right partner,
There was a moment,
When magic needed no comment.
198 · Apr 2018
THE PEOPLE OF STATE.
Dada Olowo Eyo Apr 2018
They found themselves sewn together by imperial threads,
And a century later they are clawing desperately at the seams,
But the crown seems oblivious of their frustrations,
Only choosing to gawk disparagingly at their hopeless haplessness.
198 · Sep 2019
LEGEND OF MINE.
Dada Olowo Eyo Sep 2019
From the dark, murky confines,
Of the airless, viscous sanctuary,
Wherein greatness is engineered,
Comes this one the world eagerly  anticipated.
197 · Nov 2015
FEEL FREE.
Dada Olowo Eyo Nov 2015
But in the face of tyranny,
With steely claws,
And eyes like fire,
Thunder spewing alpha daggers.
197 · Aug 2018
INACTIVE.
Dada Olowo Eyo Aug 2018
Suddenly blenders have become kit and kin,
But we forget our elders made do without,
Modern men and women too fat to lift a finger,
Take shortcuts in blended greens, reds and yellows.
Nigerians have suddenly discovered that they can blend all sorts of fruits in an attempt to keep weight down but they forget the real reason is leading a couch potato life - our forebears lived longer because they moved about more
197 · Aug 2020
NOT YOU
Dada Olowo Eyo Aug 2020
The hands moulded by fate,
But turned too late,
For destiny bear you no plan,
To flourish in my glorious clan.
196 · Nov 2015
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.
196 · Oct 2018
EX. CHANGE.
Dada Olowo Eyo Oct 2018
Interesting, almost exciting,
How The People of State have anointed,
One and condemned the other,
Both of the same stock in trade.
The emergence of erstwhile vice president of Nigeria as flagbearer of an erstwhile ruling party in coming 2019 Presidential election has divided the people along imaginary lines; seeing that their present commander-in-chief that promised them change, is of the same ethnic stock
196 · Aug 2020
TASK.
Dada Olowo Eyo Aug 2020
I would rather,
I stayed upright,
Than erupt in temptation,
Of momentary pleasure.
196 · Jul 2019
SMOKY.
Dada Olowo Eyo Jul 2019
The mountains call to me,
With the birds I must be,
Drinking from the crystal pure,
Cannot but fall for the pristine allure.
196 · Oct 2017
ALPHA MALE.
Dada Olowo Eyo Oct 2017
Boyfriend, husband, father,
Bae, hubby, daddy,
You may call me freddie,
To me one and to them the other.
195 · Aug 2015
FOREVER GONE.
Dada Olowo Eyo Aug 2015
The pain of a loss,
This life has but no gain,
So what's the fuss,
Over a useless refrain?
195 · Apr 2018
TAIL OF TWO RODENTS.
Dada Olowo Eyo Apr 2018
Conjoined at the middle,
One loved nuts and the other was nuts,
A tale of Ralph and Rudolph,
Cursed by an appendage that bound them apart.
195 · Sep 2019
OTHER SIDE OF HURT.
Dada Olowo Eyo Sep 2019
Please, don't pity me,
Yours is more precarious,
Yes, love dealt me a huge blow,
But removed the magic in your awesome glow.
194 · Jul 2019
WHAT FOR WHAT.
Dada Olowo Eyo Jul 2019
When love finds a home,
Or a dog its friend
When a soul finds companion,
And life its true meaning.
194 · Jul 2018
NOTHING.
Dada Olowo Eyo Jul 2018
The day gradually chills,
Of a full table and an empty pocket,
Cash zoomed off like a rocket,
Tonight no high stakes, only cheap thrills.
193 · May 2018
PUSSY.
Dada Olowo Eyo May 2018
Kings have fought for it,
Paupers have died for it,
While many live for its heat,
Others will end up deadbeat.
The entire world revolves around this amazingly deadly weapon owned exclusively by daughters of Eve.
Dada Olowo Eyo Jul 2019
Beaneath the rubble of King's landing,
Lay the ambitions of a queen,
Burned by the unburnt,
She flew in fiery rage.
193 · Apr 2018
NIGERIA OF MY NIGHTMARES.
Dada Olowo Eyo Apr 2018
Please, end this reality now,
For the torment of these ****** times are unbearable,
Please, restore the joyful times now,
For we yearn the times so memorable.
Nigeria is at war within; Boko Haram, Fulani herdsmen run amok killing with reckless abandon and the government remains very, very aloof and unconcerned
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