A poem on the looming Biafra and Nigeria grievances.

This poem is about strong commendation on hardwork rather than obscene wealth and interest for materialism. Its imagery is of an industrious northerner of Nigeria. And the title rainbow shawl is an allusion of Dereck Wallcot's Moon on a Rainbow Shawl which heavily implies poverty.

This poem explicate the minds of Nigerians who are embattled with the tragic taste of change proposed by her new government. This change as promised is supposed to bring relief and so her citizens have held the government to high esteem. However ironically, this change has turned out to be tragic and quite unexpected of as situation seems to migrate from bad to worse.

Sketches  and Rough Analysis
This poem is a dramatic poem because of it adoption of the fictional surrealistic characters. However the style of characterization that makes the poem classified as dramatic, the poet deplorationof the essential features of the plot element which is peculiar to the genre; drama, that is, flashback, makes the poem indisputably a dramatic poem.
The poet through the auspice of existentialism, an ideology advocating that the 'essence of human life outweighs the existence of human life', recounts the struggles of humans through the surreptitious miens of animals such as the family of mice to pontificate ‘Home’ through the sides of  a coins which determines  humans’ fate as to life or death.
In the poem, the poet present home as an inevitable habour; a place of censusing the entire memebers of the family as to knowing whomsoever that got ensnared to death in the oddites of life during day or night task of struggling for survival.
Using he biological family of mice as a satireto represent human struggles and the inevitablity of her challenges: the search for food and death, the poet imply that the problems of real rats in the hand of humans (represented as 'a bigger mice without long nose, tail and claws) is the same as the problem real humans suffer in the hands of the unknown who tends thwart human life presumably because humans are seen as alien invading for their (human) survival the territories that belongs to the unknown.

Summary of Oluwatimilehin's No Home-hole Return
Pinky a child to Doe and Buck sees his parents stuck in a human made adhesive trap, and each attempt his parents made to extricate themselves got painfully peeling their skin till they died.
Pinky alongsideother mice sees the cruel death of Doe and Buck as well as the fearsome being without tail, long nose or claws who packs away the corpse of Doe and Buck.
At the sight of the cruel scene, Pinky recalls the last conversation he had with his parent the night before the present dawn.Pinky asks why Doe and Buck often go out long at night leaving him alone and making them stay at home during the day. Buck replies and justifies his moment by explaining that the day could be nice and bright as it appears, but come with a dreary ambush and the night,: a less dreary ambush. Buck however assures that he together with his mother will provide him food daily.
Pinky goes again to his mother, Doe,presenting himself as one that is experienced and can withstand the hustle of  the night and can scale through the day's dreary ambush.His mother comes in bluntly at Pinky by likening the day hustle as a full fall from a far sky which leaves no hope of survival. And she likens the night raid as breath which we expel we may hopefully live to **** in.
Buck corks the whole explanation by likening both the raid of the day and the night to the two sides of a coin which determines ones life or death. And if it determines life, then the coin is a 'home-hole return', but if otherwise, the coin is a 'no home-hole return'.

This poem expresses the mind and physical combat of a typical Nigerian who has just finished his/her studies and is somewhat stuck or confused about how to go about life.

(A poem dedicated to married couples)

This poem is written in reference to abortion. The snubbed two however imply either the abortion of a boy, girl or even twins.

This poem is an admonition that emphasizes on us as humans to often picture the outcome or turn-out of our actions before acting.

INTRODUCTION
The poem is a fourteen line sonnet with the subject matter of love. It is a Shakespearean sonnet, not because it was written during the shakespearean period but because it adopts the Shakespearean rhyme scheme with 3 quatrains and an heroic couplet. i.e ABAB/CDCD/EFEF/GG.

                               LINE 1-4
In the first line of the poem, through the effect of apostrophe, the persona addresses a Princess who isn't physically present, telling her to answer some questions bothering him. This is because he his curious about the Princess' immense beauty. Although the lady is not a princess, he still calls her princess because since ancient times and till now, princess are known to be pretty.

The poet convert two qualities (Beauty and Gorgeous) to be an existing place to show the Persona's curiosity about the Princess.
So, the Persona asks if the Princess' parent grew in a city called Beautiful, or if the Princess was born a place called Gorgeous. Though she is dark, she is still very beautiful.

Here, while the word 'dark' tells the complexion of the princess, it also symbolises the black race (an african lady). Hence, the poem can refer to a fair or dark in complexion lady who is only an african or african akin.

                                  LINE 5-8
The curious persona furthers to adore the Princess' face by questioning if she was bathed in silver water because her beauty is very natural, and silver, are gems that are naturally precious and nice. He commends the Princess' teeth which looks very white and bright like a full blown moon.  He also get fascinated about the Princess' eyeballs which to him are like winter stars which are always brighter than any other season.

                                LINE 9-12
The Persona shifts from the face to the admiration of the sonorous voice she sings with. The persona asks if angels in heaven or angels on earth had taught her how to sing.
This question follows the christian believe that Angels sings to God in the heavens in a very magnificent manner.
Still not satisfied, he asks if she had learn her good voicing from the Phoenix, an ancient beautiful bird especially with the colour red (wine) and purple , which chirps in the morning before full dawn.

                               LINE 13-14
Finally, the persona journeys from being curious about the beauty of the princess into proposing a love relationship with her if she isn't engage with anyone.. He also propose that they should start with rolling like twins i.e as friends or lovely siblings where they can become very fond of themselves before they get married.