Showing posts with label Revolution. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Revolution. Show all posts

Saturday, October 12, 2013

Whispers of Words by Atilola Ajayi #WarofWords2





Whispers of Words by Atilola Ajayi

The land is red
I hear the whisper of a million words
They chanted and danced the kangaroo style
Holding many clogs in their hands with anger
Some sat behind the bamboo tree, writing furiously on how the leaders loot their treasury.

The black gold is finished, they howled
Look at our president, he is a thief
He steals during the day
How did he become our president, they ask angrily.

Wait! The ministers also fly in private jet
And the senators get so much than the world
They continued their songs of solidarity
As I watch them display creativity with madness

Bunch of hypocrites matching across my path
Chanting on their voices 'we have no shoes, 
we can't feed our children,
we can't drink from the niger'

In my anger, I climbed the iroko tree
On my voice I shouted, go home
Is it not you Bola, that gave the uniform man kola
Is it not you Ade that paid your way to college

Go home and stop disturbing mother sand
As she's complaining that your boots are too hard
Go and clean your attitude with JIK
Wash your behavior with OMO
Stop stealing your neighbor's farm produce
Stop deceiving your future
Cos you are the real leaders that are led,
A thief can only lead thieves.

Glass houses ain't meant for shot put players
Sweep your bunch of brooms and not sticks
Only when you see mama's soup without peeping,
Then come back with your machete of revolution.



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Thursday, December 13, 2012

MYTH OF MY CHILDHOOD (A Spoken Word Piece by Yommy Bishop)



There is a myth that was told since I was born

The myth that gladdens my heart when I was young
The myth of where I came from, and where I belong
The myth of our fathers
Of who takes over when they are gone
The fallacy that left us shattered
The truth that doesn't matter
The colors they painted with their palette
The path they treated as a scarlet.

When I was young father once told me to be strong
That one day to the top I belong
My teacher mantra me ‘leader of tomorrow’
Perhaps they said these to wipe away my sorrow.
But seems tomorrow never come
Or maybe I’m just forever young.
Though I can haul and urge them no more
No more can I endure to bear their brunt
Its dawn but the cocks still don’t crow
Ticking of time but our infants still don’t grow
Days roll into months, months into years
Our drumming rain turns lazy dew in the ears
While our waving sun changes to sleeping moon.
Our well is running dry, metamorphosed into a stony pit
Surrounded by dancing leafs
From the leafy branches of a sheltering tree
In the still of the night, our fathers stole away our right.
Rotating and revolving in selfish pride
They raped her and left the groom with no bride.
The rulers I know are still ruling
While tomorrows leader are trapped in their childhood myth looking.

The myth of my childhood
The myth that rips me off my manhood.
The Ecstasy that bind us
The love that blind us
Lying on my mother's chest
Sucking on my father's breast.
My lips on his hard on nipples
Excitement spread in like ripples.
Federal character a wailing abracadabra
A predicament sweet as venom, 
the treasure stolen in billion
We seek freedom from the rulers of this kingdom
They using us to rise to stardom, while our lives abandoned.
Sing it in their ears that again she’s in her period of Ovulation
Sing it all through the nation, 
on TV and every radio station
As we the youth are set on edge, for an un-ending Revolution.




By 
Yommy Bishop


Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Debutant LAHDE set to storm #WordUpVol2...!!!!


LAHDE



Omobolade Odeniyi is a graduate of Electronic and Electrical engineering from Ladoke Akintola University of technology, Ogbomoso; with an executive master’s degree in project management. 

He is also a Cisco Certified Networking Associate. His true passion however, lies in the written and spoken word, and an appreciation for poetry that is beyond words. 

His poem, epiphany was published in the World Poetry Movement’s 2012 edition of stars in our hearts, a collection of poems shortlisted as finalists in an international poetry contest.

He is currently working on his book, ramblings of a bard, a short collection of poems, due for release in the second quarter of 2013. 

He is a jack  of many trade, and master of all, and there is still many more to come from him. 
Certified engineer, OAP, project manager, song/screenwriter, published poet…and still filling the blanks!

























Spoken Word Poetry by Lahde titled, My Greatest Fear, at Chill and Relax (October Fever) on October 14, 2012 in Gbagada, Lagos, Nigeria. Chill and Relax is a monthly open mic Performance Poetry, Spoken Word and Soul Music Event.




WORD UP 

Volume 2

holds on the

17th of November 2012 
 at
Lecture Theatre, UNILAG Guest House, Akoka, Lagos

Time is 3pm