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
They halve their worries that know what they want
And make it target of an earnest hunt.
• 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