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STANDING FRIEND

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A very Terrific Black Friday it was yesterday, with all the shopping I did (in my mind though!) even as a question boggled my mind. Why was it Black Friday not White or Red? That's a Story for the other day. I was so pleased when someone asked to meet our poet yesterday (Kolawole Salami ) and I said Facebook him. The benefits of friendship especially when its true with no shades of black in between can be pure euphoria. Takes me to the note IYANU ADEBIYI wrote and yes I didn't forget our short review on her; but before then, enjoy this with your morning Coffee! Standing Friend   You were there when there was fear in my mind, during the phases of bad times, with trouble waters drowning me and i could only but panic. When pain filled my body, and tears flooded my eyes till I saw seven stars. I bit my lips wailing with worry in self pity. You lifted me high and made me r

I am in a Dream!

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With the discovery of some awesome writers and poets and stories that blows the mind away, begging our subconscious to reason on real issues; It's been a sweet week, I must say.  Here is something I would call a throw-back by A wicked poet KOLAWOLE SALAMI Kolawole Salami I'm in a dream I'm in a dream, standing by a junction With a path to my left and another to my right With a knowing that I should go right But a desire to walk on left. It's a dream after all, no choice is wrong. Straight ahead is a pile of green dust, Swirling round a sand baked castle Standing firm in a farm of maize Secretly kept, but impossibly obvious I'm in a dream, and people are running I join them, and my steady legs take flight They move forward quickly But my legs are taking me backwards, The quicker they move, the more of the past I see, I see as I stepped out of the house with the desire to go left, But they keep carrying me backwards, fur