one month - august
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One month - August
One purpose – self celebration!
Fourteen gods (beyond gender!)
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TABLE OF CONTENT
GODS OF AUGUST ..................................................................................................................................... 4
RAIN DROPS IN AUGUST ......................................................................................................................... 8
GOD OF WORDS ......................................................................................................................................... 9
MY SONG ...................................................................................................................................................... 10
I AM A GOD! .............................................................................................................................................. 11
GOD OF AUGUST ..................................................................................................................................... 12
GOD OF AUGUST ..................................................................................................................................... 13
I AM ROYAL .............................................................................................................................................. 15
GOD OF AUGUST ..................................................................................................................................... 16
I AM ............................................................................................................................................................. 17
BEHOLD, YOUR GOD! ............................................................................................................................ 18
MY STORY; MY GLORY ......................................................................................................................... 20
I’M A GOD .................................................................................................................................................. 21
GOD OF AUGUST ..................................................................................................................................... 22
THE EIGHT SEED..................................................................................................................................... 23
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GODS OF AUGUST
Opeoluwa Olatunbosun >>> August 1
Jamiu Ahmed Adewale Alade >>> August 8
Mosobalaje. M. Abimbola >>> August 12
Olaniyi Ololade >>> August 14
Regnard Bishoza >>> August14
Osusu Jeremiah >>> August 15
Phenol Daniel > August 18
Bashir Abubakar > August18
Joseph Adekunle >>> August 18
Funso Oris >>> August 18
Timileyin Gabriel Olajuwon >>> August 25
Bamigbola Silas >>> August 27
Quadri Adekunle >>> August 28
Oki Julius Kehinde >>> August 31
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“Legends, in other months, are done;
Of August, only gods and goddesses are born!”
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Gods of August
Like the phoenix risen from the ashes
Our crown is burnished gold of glory
We fear not the raging fire
In our blood flows molten desire
Our rank defies little thinking
We break boundaries, remove rules
We change the course of history
We write tomorrow’s story
We are gods of undying glory!
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“A life soon forgotten is a waste. Build your name and fame in the
future of men.”
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RAIN DROPS IN AUGUST
Opeoluwa Olatunbosun
August 1
I was born out of pride
Into the world of lust
I am clean, sparkling white as the sky
I am a mighty hand of valour
I ride through the street in royal apparels of gold and purple
I am the iron fist, with fierce eyes, I conquer,
I have always conquered
For my mother was told of the birth of a great one
I am a god.
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GOD OF WORDS
Jamiu Ahmed Adewale Alade
August 8
My mouth is a volcano with wide crater,
Eruption of a blazing fire of a heating truth,
That melt iron heart like ice in a scorching sun,
Hell upon hell, like Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines,
Unquenchable dreams flaming high aloft the sky.
My mind is the massive firmament; heavenly home,
Where the sun shines for days to behold its bright light,
The moon light at night to frighten darkness off its notch,
The stars form constellations of thoughts; a powerful tool,
I am a god of words with words that will change the world.
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MY SONG
Mosobalaje M. Abimbola
August 12
I am the god-song,
sung by strangers by the rivers of Babylon
-the taste of freedom.
The peace conceived in the belly of victory.
Mine is a history that can paint pages
in salty sprays, but with hope.
I am the miracle;
of how a king was born in the palace
of dreams and made in the paradise of his world.
My song is, here is home.
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I AM A GOD!
Olaniyi Ololade
August 14
I 've written myself into drugs of healing,
that when you're ill, I will be there to heal.
All gods are healers, but not all healers are gods.
I am a god that heals the fainting soul,
the fading flower and the dying city.
In the day, I’m there as the shimmering sun,
in the night, I’m there as the gleaming moon
that heals your darkness.
Never write me down with mere eyes,
for I’m not a mere man,
I’m a god - great healer.
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GOD OF AUGUST
Regnard Bishoza
August 14
Ask and I will surely tell
Mouth tells, truth dwells
Smiling stars live,
Sway on king of fortune
August god, fortune moon.
I am genius, a brilliant one
Like hibiscus blossom
I am living in paradise
In the most high kingdom
Reigning to raise sky.
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GOD OF AUGUST
Osusu Jeremiah
August 15
Oh! Sing praises to my name!
Let me conquer your world with my words.
I bring to you joy never ending.
All ye need to celebrate with me,
Because this is my month.
The chosen just for the gods,
with golden blood that run through my veins.
If there is to be another better
Thank August, it would, same time next year.
Let's make merry with sacrifice of a poet from the finest of writers.
This is my month, in which I am well pleased.
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“The birth of mere mortals signals no news
When gods arrive, men build shrine and monuments”
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I AM ROYAL
Phenol Daniel
August 18
Star of the eighth moon,
I am all suave.
My beauty, like my attitude,
Is humble and loyal, I am royal.
At my nativity, she cried.
But today I am her sky,
Her sun, her star, and her cloud,
From where rains her joy,
With which they dare not toy.
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GOD OF AUGUST
Bashir Abubakar
August 18
I am a god of August
In the planet of artistes
Catch the fun of solace
From the mind, modest.
To honour the right moment
Without any postponement
To illuminate the day of poets
With the words of talents.
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I AM
Joseph Adekunle
August 18
I am the Light that glows in darkness
The Voice of hope in the wilderness
I am the Silencer of the alarm of danger
Which puts an end to boiling anger
So, rise to join the force
To celebrate with the Voice
I come with rain
To flourish plants of the great terrain
I am he who is great
Join me or burn in your hate
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BEHOLD, YOUR GOD!
Funso Oris
August 18
Harken to the voice of my godessence
I am the crown of the gods
The eye of Eedua, sight that pierces the hidden mysteries of the heart
Not an echo of meager minds and fettered fertility
I am the voice over destinies, the shaper of futures
I live by tomorrow, the flowing stream of upward influence
At the village square, where gods and men gather in reverence
There I hold court of gods, and men who fall in obeisance
I speak that which the gods fear to mutter
I speak that which happens without falter
I am your dream fulfilled – utter!
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“Write your story on the minds of men;
Let gods publish your glory on the pages of eternity!”
- FR
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MY STORY; MY GLORY
Timileyin Gabriel Olajuwon
August 25
"Only time heals broken heart"
Life, despite is pretty cruel, yet
Amidst competing odds, eddies of tears
Just as the morning sun, I rise to shine
Unfolding as a flower of many colors, and
Whatever life brings to one, thus I know
Only time heals broken heart, for there is
No glory without a story –
And mine shall be a glorious history.
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I’M A GOD
Bamigbola Silas
August 27
I'm an enormous tree
Of healthy and wealthy branches
And green leaves on which
Birds perch their nest
And animals find their shelters under.
And from me the worlds, their fruits, they pluck.
My bark; a mysterious medicine
Used crumb by crumb,
That heals the souls of men;
For I'm a god.
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GOD OF AUGUST
Quadri Adekunle Adeoti
August 28
Miles of cold fur, under my feet, quake my mind,
Searching in the hay of thoughts, how he had crowned,
The tranquil moon and its shivery sky,
A month of glittering gold that buys my smile,
O August god of the silent shore!
Gleaming sky, such that heaven allows,
Beautiful and stout for poets to magnify,
Would you sigh and desire to woe?
These gods come and go, but you are alive,
The search for thee crown ends at your door.
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THE EIGHT SEED
Oki Kehinde Julius
August 31
We're the gods of august
Moulded by creator from the dust.
The yielding seeds of Augustus
That bloom out the fruit of happiness & love.
We're the eighth seed
That can't be trampled by the weed.
The forerunner of "ember months
That silences the rain for the sun.
We're the legendary august born
Welcomed into the world by gongs and talking drum.
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The End