If the promise of resurrection does not void
The agony of separation with our loved
Ones, why, then, must we – mere mortals – avoid
Admitting grave’s victory over us and our beloved?
• Ikeogu Oke
Salutes Without Guns
Love is a rational expression between you and other.... The other is the numerator and you are the denominator. The larger you give value to the denominator, the lesser the value of the expression.
• Gabriel Pinatacan
All is ephemeral--fame and the famous as well
• Marcus Aurelius
Truth is piety, piety truth.
• Ikeogu Oke
Where I Was Born
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
I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great.
• Ray Charles
Fools die and praise their fatherland in vain
Or extol a vain throne while they suffer pain.
• Ikeogu Oke
Where I Was Born
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
Patriotism is our taking care
To paint things as they are,
To not misname a spade,
And not shout of gloom, and flare,
When there’s just a shade.
• Ikeogu Oke
Where I Was Born
Brief may be the earthly span of our grief;
Does that belie their anguish who have grieved?
• Ikeogu Oke
Salutes Without Guns
Who steals a crown should humbly bear the blame
If his rule defames his people’s name.
They have a right to frown
At a king whose reign does not deserve acclaim,
And rise to seize their crown.
• Ikeogu Oke
Where I Was Born
Time does not heal wounds inflicted with forethought.
• Ikeogu Oke
Salutes Without Guns
If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded
• Maya Angelou
It’s who steers a ship that wrecks its trip.
Where goes the shepherd there will go the sheep.
• Ikeogu Oke
Where I Was Born
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
There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it
• Maya Angelou
It’s who steers a ship that wrecks its trip.
Where goes the shepherd there will go the sheep.
• Ikeogu Oke
Where I Was Born
Time may seem to wait for the coy lady
Even as it hastens on, or is gone already.
• Ikeogu Oke
Salutes Without Guns
Nature has endowed the human with A HEART to detect the sensibility of
feelings and A WEIRD MIND to contemplate ....so be A REAL HUMAN BEING.
• SIR RAM
“A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable.”
• Aberjhani
Red Room Blog
' Would a sky dry up if there were absolute, no rain; To mix in? How would we breathe?'
• Anna Lovering
Life
All husbands are alike, but they have different faces so you can tell them apart.
• Ogden Nash
Be what you are. Give What is yours to give. Have Style. Dare.
• Stanley Kunitz
Get to know me, not just by words of others, try to be a companion or anyone, be somebody in my life, hope you won't regret. Make me laugh, too. That is a measure of one's character. My world is the same world we are all in.
• April Mae Berza
I do consider my engaged poetry as a personal mission, a duty towards a society which evolves into a system of control of consciences: one even becomes a suspect for not thinking correctly !
• Jan Theuninck
Letteratour (29 November 2004)
CUTTING TRUTHS - Truth is the rarest commodity on earth as very few know how to be open enough to receive it!
• Michael Levy
Philosophy
"Don't mistake my passion for anger."
• Joe DeMarco
2008
Experience is the father of man
• Olawuyi Mutiu
Thoughts from the Jungle
Experience is the treasure of any persona.
• SIR RAM
As a straight female, I am respecting the queer community with such professionalism I am with them no matter what. That is my stand
• April Mae Berza