Niyi Osundare

Jan 13, 2025 | htsyndication.com | Niyi Osundare |Ololade Bamidele

Nigeria, Jan.

Jan 13, 2025 | premiumtimesng.com | Niyi Osundare |Ololade Bamidele

BOLA IGE (Remembering December 21, 2001) History Never Forgets And enter the gunmen one sad and ominous night murder’s mandate in every bullet Paymasters waiting in the crook of night’s arms, eager for a convoy of corpses And a rude shot put out the star in our Christmas sky and the shepherds lost their way To the Bethlehem of our re-birth carols blackened into dirges seething every line with the anguish of our rage A pall fell on the yuletide feast streets emptied into horrified silence...

Jan 12, 2025 | saharareporters.com | Niyi Osundare

And enter the gunmenone sad and ominous nightmurder’s mandate in every bulletPaymasters waiting in the crookof night’s arms, eagerfor a convoy of corpsesAnd a rude shot put out the starin our Christmas skyand the shepherds lost their wayTo the Bethlehem of our re-birthcarols blackened into dirgesseething every line with the anguish of our rageA pall fell on the yuletide feaststreets emptied into horrified silencemarkets wore their stalls like absent belts. . . .

Jan 11, 2025 | thenationonlineng.net | Niyi Osundare

History Never Forgets And enter the gunmen one sad and ominous night murder’s mandate in every bullet Paymasters waiting in the crook of night’s arms, eager for a convoy of corpses And a rude shot put out the star in our Christmas sky and the shepherds lost their way To the Bethlehem of our re-birth carols blackened into dirges seething every line with the anguish of our rage A pall fell on the yuletide feast streets emptied into horrified silence markets wore their stalls like absent belts....

Nov 30, 2024 | thenationonlineng.net | Niyi Osundare

We are the Trees of the World We are the Trees of the Life We laugh, we cry, we whisper, we shout We breed, we brood, we breathe We carry the Planet in our careful hands A tender burden, historic task The loom and latch of a naked world We robe the Earth in our green embrace Hour by hour we lose our kin To waste, to war, and the senseless blaze The careless axe, the haughty chain saw And the cannibal greed of the rich and strong Behold the Spider Monkey and the Spectacled Bear The...