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A bearded writer
invades our dream
begging for bearing
to thoughts we shared
on global commons.
Ogun in seven parts
replicates in the G7
without their knowledge.
The carnage on the paths
of history traces its roots
to the revolution of machines
with dreams of power
on motherboards of illusion
The gun powder
un-balances the forces
reducing choices
creating losses
sucking up surpluses
from nations not yet Nations
Ogun in seven parts
takes new sacrifices from cross-roads
crossing boundaries with motherboards
buried in binary bytes and bits
like Orunmila’s opele ifa
feeding faithful with facts
for the future.
The bearded writer with multiple
plans finds a bearing in silence
crippled by silence
as a new gong grows a handle.
Ifa Agboniregun
The knower and the known,
the sower of words which breeds
fruits of now and the future.
Let our words feature on the critic’s plate,
let our flame burn beyond
scrolls on which we write
Let our dreams scream headlines
in the confluence of ideas…
The author, Kole Ade Odutola turns 60, on August 2, 2020. He is a teacher, poet, photojournalist and activist. He has a first degree in Botany, a Masters degree in TV/Video for Development from the University of Reading (UK), a second Masters degree in Organisational Communication from Ithaca College, and a Ph.D in Media Studies from Rutgers University. The author of ‘The Poet Fled‘ and ‘The Poet Bled‘ lectures in the USA. In 2011, Ade-Odutola’s academic, nonfiction work: ‘Diaspora and Imagined Nationality: USA-Africa Dialogue and Cyberframing Nigerian Nationhood’, was published by Carolina Academic Press, USA. His latest poetry collection, The Poet Wept, was published by Atrif Academic Press, in 2019.
