Battles have been won though lost
And lost though seemingly won;
And the faith of the cross is but a Phoenix
That rose from the ashes of a cold crucifixion.
• Ikeogu Oke
Salutes Without Guns
"All joys amount to empty valves, It’s like you enjoyed too much,And in the end you’re left with nothing."
• Vishü Rita Krocha
The murderous eagle earns a worthy name.
The vulture eats the dead and dies in blame.
• Ikeogu Oke
Where I Was Born
When the plaudits start to ape a grumble,
And our footings start to drag and stumble,
And glory turns to face a younger age,
It’s time to take a bow and leave the stage.
• Ikeogu Oke
Salutes Without Guns
The heart and the mind
are strangers entwined,
for what the heart percieves
the mind is unable to conceive.
• saajida gora
14/09/2011
The murderous eagle earns a worthy name.
The vulture eats the dead and dies in blame.
• Ikeogu Oke
Where I Was Born
When the plaudits start to ape a grumble,
And our footings start to drag and stumble,
And glory turns to face a younger age,
It’s time to take a bow and leave the stage.
• Ikeogu Oke
Salutes Without Guns
Sometimes it is wiser to board the 'tolerance ship'
for it sails smoothly throughout the seas of life.
• saajida gora
15/09/2011
No fraud escapes the searching hands of light.
And falsehoods, sown, germinate in shame.
• Ikeogu Oke
Where I Was Born
When the plaudits start to ape a grumble,
And our footings start to drag and stumble,
And glory turns to face a younger age,
It’s time to take a bow and leave the stage.
• Ikeogu Oke
Salutes Without Guns
Peace cannot exist without happiness which cannot exist without freedom which cannot exist without life. Some people fight for freedom and some people die for freedom but what is freedom really... without life...
• saajida gora
21/09/2011
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
• Joy Leftow
It’s not in caution that man’s safety lies
Or in timid silence when he ought to speak.
An end awaits the valiant as the weak.
Even the dumb dies.
• Ikeogu Oke
Where I Was Born
At love’s checkerboard of delight
Those who play victim botch the game.
• Ikeogu Oke
Where I Was Born
They strain the aqueous world in which we live
And worsen their woes who look back and grieve.
• Ikeogu Oke
Salutes Without Guns
If the land of our fathers
stabs us like adders
are we still obliged to love it,
to nod our assent to its blind conceit,
and cultivate patriotism
in a loveless acre
massed with rocks?
• Ikeogu Oke
Where I Was Born
Why do the faithful shrink
From the embrace
Of “eternal bliss”?
Why would they rather cling
To the flesh
Even by the thinnest shred
Of their crumbling skin?
What gives
Such honeyed taste
To earthly life?
• Ikeogu Oke
Salutes Without Guns
Fame from wealth and power departs with wealth and power;
Fame from art and virtue endures the eternal hour.
• Ikeogu Oke
Salutes Without Guns
Nature has endowed the human with A HEART to detect the sensibility of
feelings and A WEIRD MIND to contemplate ....so be A REAL HUMAN BEING.
• SIR RAM
“A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable.”
• Aberjhani
Red Room Blog
' Would a sky dry up if there were absolute, no rain; To mix in? How would we breathe?'
• Anna Lovering
Life
All husbands are alike, but they have different faces so you can tell them apart.
• Ogden Nash
Be what you are. Give What is yours to give. Have Style. Dare.
• Stanley Kunitz
Get to know me, not just by words of others, try to be a companion or anyone, be somebody in my life, hope you won't regret. Make me laugh, too. That is a measure of one's character. My world is the same world we are all in.
• April Mae Berza
I do consider my engaged poetry as a personal mission, a duty towards a society which evolves into a system of control of consciences: one even becomes a suspect for not thinking correctly !
• Jan Theuninck
Letteratour (29 November 2004)
CUTTING TRUTHS - Truth is the rarest commodity on earth as very few know how to be open enough to receive it!
• Michael Levy
Philosophy
"Don't mistake my passion for anger."
• Joe DeMarco
2008
Experience is the father of man
• Olawuyi Mutiu
Thoughts from the Jungle
Experience is the treasure of any persona.
• SIR RAM
As a straight female, I am respecting the queer community with such professionalism I am with them no matter what. That is my stand
• April Mae Berza