this caged bird is a boy, who longed for life,
for love, for normality. teachers said he was arrogant,
that he could well hear you speak, but he won’t reply you
OF THE FEUD BETWEEN CATS AND MICE (a poem in two parts) by Theophilus Femi Alawonde
WHAT KATIE HAD TO SAY It was a fine sunny day that an old giant cat came to where I lay she said, "Are you the Mister Theophilus that wrote...
DOZING BOY by Theophilus Femi Alawonde
In various angles – dozing boy looks for ease. [caption id="attachment_22961" align="aligncenter" width="1064"] DOZING BOY by Theophilus Femi Alawonde[/caption]
THANK GOD by Theophilus ‘Femi Alawonde
thank God for the breath of life thank Him for the laid down life the God for the meals you have thank Him for you do not starve thank God...
THREE MICE AND A KITTEN by Theophilus Femi Alawonde
Three old spinster mice, thought they ought to be nice. They found a cold kitten, and they didn't stop to reason. They took her to their hole, and Dorothy brought...
WHAT MYSTERY! by Theophilus Femi Alawonde
Life- is a mystery. For there lie a million and one things that we know not. Life- is a mystery. For each day has a million and one events whose...
LAMENTS FOR WASTED DAYS by Theophilus Femi Alawonde
I feel this agony in my soul, the pain for a long lost goal. When I think back, through the years, I cannot but let the free flow of tears....
ALMAJIRI: THE HAUSA MALE by Theophilus ‘Femi Alawonde
The very day that Audu was born, his father said, 'I will not raise a son!' So the day he became five years, he was sent out admist his sisters'...
DO NOT LET IT by Theophilus Femi Alawonde
There's always something to wreck your day, something obstructive to mar your way, a thought to change blue skies to grey, If you let it. There's always something to spoil...
FOR AN UNSUNG HEROINE by Theophilus Femi Alawonde
for Lois .I. Alawonde, a multi-talented teen, who died of an unknown sickness, on the 11th of September, 2012. I write this as a song, for an heroine, unsung. She...