HOPE, YOU’RE INSPIRED…TODAY! by Abdulhafeez Oyewole

I was hoping I could crack some “expensive jokes” (this week with my pen),

But Selah said to me “You aren’t off beam… and can illumine even better than what you up for”

So I paused and thought, “Could Selah be right by her thrust?”

She was as always a good source of my inspiration after all.

And may be today again, she will but brain my hand.

Everyone has a source of inspiration, which may be “he”, “she” or “it”. Just as everyone has a God.

Every soul has a body with which without, it cannot live successfully and steadily in this ephemeral host.

Thus, the earlier the unearthing of one’s source or sources of inspiration as the case may be, the better the chance of one’s sojourn would be better for it.

Be ye not a dreamer, building castles in the air,

Be ye the dream builder, with all sense of seriousness

Like a spider on its task to web.

Be ye not a pessimist, tired of trying.

Be ye an ant: neither retreating nor surrender,

To the squash and scorch from man and sky.

Be ye the proof of your Maker,

By your deeming self.

Be ye not a dream marauder!

And there is another one Selah failed not to leave me with:

“When everyone continues staring at you,

And the sky was not by your side,

Pause and think.”

Like Selah, I am leaving you with inspiring pieces from intellectual minds. So ponder over every drop of ink (like this write) in them and don’t hesitate to drop yours today for everyone’s reading delight!                       PEN CLUB; Practice to Perfection.

By: ABDULHAFEEZ, T. Oyewole

               

TALE OF THE GIANTS by Odugbenga Talabi

Like the scavenging tempest, this day hurries by;
Swiftly turning its pace pass-above stoppage by Babylonian wall,
Sweeping silently the wrecked nation’s debris there and here,
Twisting around the remains from the once healthy land.

Tick tack as the clock tickles by,
With time everything wanes whilst many tales untold,
With hands glue to the chests, the inquisitive solitaries watch in agape.

As the world gazes from afar;
They wonder, sob, and cry “Where lay their giants?”
As the day fades into night…Kokoroooko …

Ah! It’s another day and the giants are still snoring?
The trees, spank by the winds cry loudly from this world, their world
As their truthful heads head toward Sinai
Alas! The quest for the messiah may swallow up a millennium!

By: ODUGBENGA, Talabi

FORTY NIGERIAN PROVERBS FOR YOUR REFLECTION

Considering the fact that Nigerian cultures and traditions are fading out on a daily basis. Thus in the spirit of reviving those culture in our own little way, we deem it fit to bring to you some of the famous Nigerian quotes or proverbs for your reasoning. As we hope you will savour them one by one:

ü  A man does not wander far from where his corn is roasting.

ü  A rat is not born a rabbit.

ü  A tiger does not have to proclaim its tigritude.

ü  A traveler to distant places should make no enemies.

ü  A tree does not move unless there is wind.

ü  A tree is best measured when it's down.

ü  A tree is known by its fruit.

ü  An old man is there to talk.

ü  Fine words do not produce food.

ü  “Give me a push from my back" does not mean give me a hunchback.

ü  If a blind man says, "Let's throw stones," be assured that he has stepped on one.

ü  If a monkey is amongst dogs, why won't it start barking.

ü  If crocodiles eat their own eggs, what would they do to the flesh of a frog?

ü  If death be terrible, the fault is not in death, but thee.

ü  If one finger brought oil it soiled others.

ü  If you fail to take away a strong man's sword when he is on the ground, will you do it when he gets up?

ü  It is the fear of offence that makes men swallow poison.

ü  It is the first step that is difficult.

ü  It takes a village to raise a child.

ü  It takes all sorts to make a world.

ü  No sane person sharpens his machete to cut a banana tree.

ü  Not to know is bad; not to wish to know is worse.

ü  Not to know the good we have Till time has stolen the cherish'd gift away, Is cause of half the misery that we feel, And makes the world the wilderness it is.

ü  Not to oversee workmen, is to leave your purse open.

ü  One goat cannot carry another goat's tail.

ü  Profit is profit even in Mecca.

ü  The death that will kill a man begins as an appetite.

ü  The disobedient fowl obeys in a pot of soup.

ü  The frog does not jump in the daytime without reason.

ü  The house roof fights the rain, but he who is sheltered ignores it.

ü  The house sweeper's buttock is never at one direction.

ü  The hunter does not rub himself in oil and lie by the fire to sleep.

ü  The lizard that jumped from the high iroko tree said he would praise himself if no one else did.

ü  The one being carried does not realize how far away the town is.

ü  When the mice laugh at the cat, there is a hole nearby.

Compiled by: PenClubites

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