PROVERBIAL QUOTES - Mobolaji Oriola

A lizard that falls from the top of an iroko tree says it will praise itself if no one did

Whoever says the snail is a lazy animal should go about carrying his house on his back 

Untill a rotten tooth is pulled out the mouth must learn to chew with caution

Its either you drink dry the sea or never taste the perian spring

Like a city whose walls are broken is a person with no self control

2013

                                                  HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!
              This new year may you all receive more of God's blessings and find his favor in all your endeavours.Amen! This year, God will give you ATTENTION, reveal his INTENTION, and lock your enemies in spiritual DETENTION untill you finally grab your possession!
              Its been 1 year 6 months that i last posted. This is not because i have not been writing but because i'm working on a bigger project. Some of you know about this and for those that do not just chill 'nkan be'.
             Thank God we were able to see this new year and may we see more fruitful years!
              Its a brand new year some of are writing/drafting/preparing our new year resolutions.
              New year resolutions do not work for me because from the very first day i begin to break my self promises (resolutions) and by late febuary/early march i've scattered everything. So i thought to myself that rather than making fruitless resolutions, why dont i develop principles that can guide my every action and make me a better person. One of the principles or will i call it a decision is to do things because it pleases me not because of some other persons. I know to you that sounds WRONG and makes me look so self centred but like one of my poems "the world cannot be pleased" which can be seen on my blog here. Let me tell you a short story
             " a father and his son were going on a journey the father was riding the donkey while the son was walking the children of Adam saw and shook their head in disgust and said o ye man why so wicked and selfish you ride comfortably while your son walks in agony the man got down and put his son on the donkey they travelled and again they came across the children of Adam they laughed sarcastically and said o father you must be stupid for you to walk in pain and allow your son ride this donkey in comfort the father and the son climbed the donkey and were riding together again they came across the sons of Adam again they complained o ye father and son ye must be very wicked for ye to display such rutilanting manner of discomfort on the poor animal the father and son got down and were walking with the donkey again they came across the sons of Adam and they laughed o ye father and son why walk when there is a donkey to ride then the man came to a conclusion the sons of Adam, the people of the world can never be pleased and so he did what pleased him"
               So tell me people what should he have done?
             I'll continue my writing in new year resolutions later....... For now you all should have a wonderful day!

WAIL NO MORE by Oriola Mobolaji

Life has treated you thus
Your eyes are filled with tears
Your heart
Drunk with sorrow

Life has put you at its extreme corner
Going foward is difficult
returning
impossible

You think thy world end

Wail no more
For bruised though you must be
Some easement you require

Through all the struggles
Through all the pain that drives a man insane

Rise up
Stand up

Open your mind
Let it wander
Raise your heart

It has been inside of you
Look at the stars
It is written in them
million miles away

remember
after the storm
comes the rainbow

sooneth
today will be yesterday
and tommorow
a brighter day

An Attraction

Journeying
mine

Innocently
My eyes fell on you
and like a spark of light

my heart was illuminated

I'm frozen by your radiance
daydreaming
soaking up the sun's heat

An attraction
draws me
as i journey towards you

My eyes parallel yours
as my destination
i've arrived

Shut are my eyes
as a deep breath is taken
upon sight
you are gone

THE WORLD CANNOT BE PLEASED by Oriola Mobolaji

The Children of Adam
Saucy
Hard to please

Names you are called when success is yours
Mockery
when you are a nobody

Its a shame
Oh a shame

Its a shame the way we treat one another
Its a shame the way we abuse one another

All you are
All you say
All you do
Cannot please them

Do not hesitate
To please yourself
You only should please you

Because the children of Adam cannot be pleased

REJOICE by Mobolaji Oriola

Rejoice!
Rejoice with laughter
For God has blessed you

Though through the rain and the stormy weather
you have been
you are now the rain the lightning and the thunder

Enemies gather
For your glory they want finished

Tell them the Almighty has blessed you
And who God has blessed
Nobody should dare
 
Worry not
For you are blessed
and like a diamond in the dark
You shine!

UNDERSTANDING POETRY

AFTER EXTENSIVE AND THOROUGH RESEARCH ON POETRY I COMPILED THIS PIECE AND DECIDED TO SHARE IT 

 Poetry, an English word coined from the Greek word ποιεω (poieo) meaning I create is a piece of writing through which human language which is mainly oral is used in a manner that differs from other genres of literature.
It conveys emotion or ideas to the reader's mind or listener's ear (if oral); it uses literary devices i.e. figures of speech to achieve incantatory effects. Poems frequently use imagery, word association, to generate meaning which  is what marks it as poetry.
 Due to its nature of emphasising linguistic form, it is difficult to translate poetry from one language into another. Most poetry works, use a lot of connotations which is importantly useful. These styles used can be difficult to interpret and causes different readers to understand a particular piece of poetry differently. Although there can be different interpretations, there can never be a definitive interpretation. Poetry conveys meaning in a more expansive and less condensed way. This does no imply that poetry is illogical, but rather, poetry is often created from the need to escape the logical, as well as expressing feelings in a less condensed manner. Forms of poetry which include narrative poetry and dramatic poetry, both of which can be used to tell stories. However, both these forms of poetry use the specific features of verse composition to make these stories more memorable or to enhance them in some way.
The Greek verb ποιεω poiéo ( I make or create)], gave rise to three words: ποιητης poiet?s ( the one who creates), ποιησις poíesis ( the act of creation) and ποιημα poíema ( the thing created]. From these we get three English words: poet (the creator), poesy (the creation) and poem (the created). A poet is therefore one who creates and poetry is what the poet creates.

The most vital element of sound in poetry is rhythm. Often the rhythm of each line is arranged in a particular meter. In the case of free verse, the rhythm of lines is often organized into looser units of cadence.
Poetry in English and other modern European languages often uses rhyme. Rhyming originated from the Arabic Language .The Arabs have always used rhymes extensively, most notably in their long, rhyming qasidas.  Alliteration is a key part of the poetic structure, which determines when the listener expects instances of rhyme or alliteration to occur. In this sense, both alliteration and rhyme, when used in poetic structures, help to emphasise and define a rhythmic pattern.  In addition to rhyme, alliteration adds so much structure to poetry, and plays a more subtle role in even free verse poetry by creating pleasing varied patterns and emphasizing or sometimes even illustrating semantic elements of the poem. Alliteration and rhyme are among the devices poets use to provide an aesthetically pleasing way of reading. Poetry depends less on the linguistic units of sentences and paragraphs, and more on units of organization that are purely poetic. The typical structural elements are the line, couplet, strophe, stanza, and verse paragraph.
In many instances, the effectiveness of a poem is derived  from the tension between the use of linguistic and formal writing.

I HOPE YOU ENJOYED READING AND NOW HAVE A BETTER UNDERSTANDING  OF WHAT POETRY IS ALL ABOUT. THANK YOU AND HAVE A GREAT DAY!