Wole Oguntola is a poet with two awards in both poetry and short story. A satirist and activist, whose poetry has been published home and abroad, he is currently the HOD of Art, Excellent Comprehensive Model International Schools, Osogbo, Osun State.
Labourer
You affixed and allotted this season to fate
And tense of timber is the voice telegraphing the earth
You’ve sniffed and sneezed rustling brute
of bubbled buffaloes
Busy brushing the terrain of hope and therewith
But life is broad with a narrow end of the blade
Bluffing then on blossom tomorrow
Since this farm is a nostril of bizarre blaze
In the free versed winter, wind to fate
Labourer!
It’s a sorry September
This farm is benighted by plough of predators
and besiege of betrayers.
To the stones
To the stones I’ve thrown above the eyes
To them I level the earth
I’m at peace own end
To the river I bid farewell when thunder slipped through the fence
To it I have humbled my feet
I own much to the elements
Storm be still!
I know the incarnation of the sun.
Heat be gone!
Nothing shall be a child to the chain.
Freedom, please be free.
Let song at twilight take me home.
Let the stones dance to its parting rhythm.
And truly, I’ve thrown a stone.
One hard to believe.
And the world is a sea!
For good to grace, and evil to hide;
For mercy to maim and fall by the wind.
I’ve dared fury in its scope.
But I know.
Nothing lives forever.
The battle is over once the scenes are fair.
But I know.
Yes I know.
Only truth will not slip in the hand of time,
When fusion of fraction forms alliance,
Against allies of peace.
Dauntless defence
(to Adeoluwa Balogun)
Dauntless defence
Homes your strength I sink
Where you’re hailed stronger
From stagger to stamina
Even adrift whirlwind
Where it whistles by-
In life even when unrepose
Shared dream have you to shoot
These paralleled projectiles…
At wall of obfuscation, a must!
Indeed, the fence
Is this defence, you assembled
In apt fury to free
The deprived-
And in that cab of history
I came with profound you
Who let Masonic procession
To uncover the blindfold
Put on the defenceless.