Showing posts with label David Onotu. Show all posts
Showing posts with label David Onotu. Show all posts

Saturday, 29 March 2014

WHITE, BLACK OLD WAYS.


Yesterday's seduction calls,
Arousing my thirst,
 Lingering hunger for power,
 Erotically having fun with my deep.
Zapping energy from my previous life.
Should I accept this evil or forge with the light I know?
Should I hate what I am? Or become my past? continue

Sunday, 13 October 2013

Destinies of men; A short story by Onotu David Onimisi

Destinies of men      For Abubakar Adams Ibrahim
                                                                                          CAIN prize nominee 2013
The end of the world for me meant writing my final examinations, and finishing secondary school. Two years after my senior school certificate exam I majored in the arts. Arts for me represented a world without restrictions. A world in which I was free to explore and recreate myself as a warrior or king like those in the Greek and roman histories I had read.

Ever since my childhood, books had been my passion. I grew up in a household where everyone was constantly turning the page of one book or another. There were nights when amongst other children, I would sit beneath the brilliance of the full moon and listen to grownups tell stories, my hooded eyed uncle best of all, the stories which he told enchanted me, transported me to newer worlds with strange happenings and fascinating characters.

Decipher files for ; ORIGIN a poem



ORIGIN 
  
Where it all started
Sin from its origin
Original sin
We saw it happened before it began
But we sang songs of endless love
Collecting Reminiscence, Renaissance
Good and bad memories
Waiting for sun to sleep so we can bring back the spirit of those who have lost
In the lost word Read more!