CAPE OF GOOD HOPE by Dominic Ayegba Okoliko
Come, let’s follow the yellow in the rainbow Mind not the tremor but keep firm your grip Even if the clouds were to shake As if their wears were to...
TO BE A MAN by Dominic Ayegba Okoliko
If your idea about being a boy Is to cause another a boil, Then you’ve got it all wrong “Cause you’re no strong; Not inside and not outside. If being...
FOOLISH ME! by Dominic Ayegba Okoliko
I toil night and day leaving no room for rest; For I thought to myself, ‘Rest is for those whom idleness have impressed’. So I turned an owl at night...
Phenomenal by Dominic Ayegba Okoliko
Phenomenal, That’s what you all are; Women of substance With shining earthstar, Whose fragrance seasons and sweetens Our earth dome full of jolly And sometimes teens in their folly In...
THE DEAD WE HOLD IN MEMORY by Dominic Ayegba Okoliko
The dead we hold in memory As today tells their story Our hearts and minds hear it again Reliving them in prayerful pain Under the shadow of earth’s drear Our...
PRODIGAL MERCY by Dominic Ayegba Okoliko
The preacher once told a story Pretty much about our affairs so gory It’s the tale of a prodigal son But isn’t it also of the prodigality Of the father’s...
WINDS, WILD AND WHIRL by Dominic Ayegba Okoliko
Let winds be wild and whirl blowing from the far west caress me to wild and send my worries to rest Let it blow me like a balloon to beyond...
NEW YEAR by Dominic Ayegba Okoliko
Let all hearts break into joy With gratitude boiling Beyond containing measure For the great pleasure Of witnessing a New Year Like a sweet soft flowing streams The year has...
WHEEL IT AWAY by Dominic Ayegba Okoliko
On the wings of the wind Wheel it away 2016 and all its strings Toss it away into past days Let it down at the occident With the slow death...
MY HEART’S JASPER by Dominic Ayegba Okoliko
The world might be complex. But I know a thing or two: In the whole of the known multiplex, You’re a star with a million dazzling glue. There aren’t too...