It is my very delight that another dosage of TGIF Special begins today. This is the third series since the ball was set rolling. Having you readers around has been a major encouragement and motivation. As much as I can, I have been trying to vary the structure, message and presentation of each series for […]
Archives for January 2015
STILL SEARCHING [DOSES 3 & 4]
I welcome you all to another exciting TGIF Special. I am awfully sorry I could not post any installment last week. I was seriously down with fever and couldn’t even write a sensible paragraph as much as I tried. I have fully recuperated now. As scheduled, the “Still Searching” dosage still ends today. I made […]
FOR C.JAS, MY OWN AREWA
C.Jas, I thought to let you know That sometimes you’re like sensimillia, Throwing me into intermittent spasms of euphoria, Or that I’m an incorrigible drunk, and you my inebriating wine. *** My sanity too often I doubt, ‘Cause I allow my mind to wander much, Like some nomad, unable to decipher what was And distinguish […]
STILL SEARCHING [DOSE 2]
I am now back from church and secure in my warm home. The cold outside is a killer. I know it is okay to have harmattan in the first month of the year in Nigeria, but this one seems to just be out of hand. My lips are so dry that they are beginning to […]
STILL SEARCHING [FIRST DOSE]
A Satire It is the last day of the year. Everyone is happy and celebrating. Now and then, fireworks are shot into the sky, producing bangs that make earth and hearts tremble. Some of the fireworks spark high above withered trees and form colourful stars that disappear as soon as they come into sight. I […]