Quotes


When the plaudits start to ape a grumble,
And our footings start to drag and stumble,
And glory turns to face a younger age,
It’s time to take a bow and leave the stage.

• Ikeogu Oke

Salutes Without Guns


Battles have been won though lost
And lost though seemingly won;
And the faith of the cross is but a Phoenix
That rose from the ashes of a cold crucifixion.

• Ikeogu Oke

Salutes Without Guns


Time may seem to wait for the coy lady
Even as it hastens on, or is gone already.

• Ikeogu Oke

Salutes Without Guns


Time may seem to wait for the coy lady
Even as it hastens on, or is gone already.

• Ikeogu Oke

Salutes Without Guns


Hiroshima was the harvest of death that forced
A dead-end on the Holocaust,
Proving that even “evil” can serve the “good” end
Of those who prove to be its friend?

• Ikeogu Oke

Salutes Without Guns


Time does not heal wounds inflicted with forethought.

• Ikeogu Oke

Salutes Without Guns


Evil is never ameliorated
by being tolerated.

• Ikeogu Oke

Salutes Without Guns


Brief may be the earthly span of our grief;
Does that belie their anguish who have grieved?

• Ikeogu Oke

Salutes Without Guns


Is a sting effaced by a pain that proves to be brief?
Or a victory not its kind for being short-lived?

• Ikeogu Oke

Salutes Without Guns


Is a sting effaced by a pain that proves to be brief?
Or a victory not its kind for being short-lived?

• Ikeogu Oke

Salutes Without Guns



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