Spoken Word
Happy New Year!!!
For a while now, we’ve been publishing an Anthology of Poems every month. The anthologies are compiled by our Spoken Word Ministers. In this New Year edition, we’ve put together an interesting compilation on the title – BOOK.
Now, books play a significant role in our lives. It’s been said, “when you open a book, you open a new world”. Good books inspire, edify, and guide us. We gain knowledge and wisdom when we read such books. In these lines, our Spoken Word Ministers share some deep insights on treasures hidden between pages.
Enjoy!
White pages and blue lines
Is this hairless friend of mine
Where wars of great kings are written
By the hands of a gentle kitten
To be preserved and remind of our history so pretty.
Stanley Nwobi
A gentle four letter word
On the shelf of every great man
Home of the mightiest of sword, “the pen”
Embrace it and it will make you
Neglect it and it will break you… BOOK.
Lawrence Acha
I got hooked to this book
And I look at each page
As if it’s a way to him
Though I lose this book sometimes
I’ll still find it cause it’s my hood.
Bukola Fulani
O! brilliant writings of the tree
Big or small you are in size
Yet defining lives just by reading
The pen they say is mightier than the sword
And you stand true to these words by making or marring life.
Chinaza Okafor
I could never have dreamt that there were such happenings in the world; between the covers of books
Beyond this lovely land I know
What shall I learn and feel and be
What would the world be without books?
Beyond these closed mysterious gates.
Alexandra Aremo
Search me and you will get knowledge
Search me and you will be free
Search me and find wealth
As you flip through those pages, you become unbeatable to the enemies and irresistible to your helpers
Only those who are committed can enjoy me.
Ibiremilekun Ibikunle
Requires the gaze of different oculars
A product of the inventiveness of an intellect
Beaming rays of illumination into hearts
Contains knowledge and mysteries unknown to the earth
Ink, inscribing inspiration and innovation.
Adedeji Rotimi Adekunle (ARA)
I danced with gypsies, dined with kings, fought with dragons
And escaped dungeons
I visited New York, Hawaii, Agrabbah, even Narnia.
I opened a book
And stepped into a new world.
Oluwatobi Afolabi
It’s like traveling around the world
It’s like my eyes are closed in a dream while opened
In between a few pages
Is a place of solitude
A place with so much knowledge, experience and imagination.
Feranmi Ogundipe
When I discovered my gift for writing
Which I had to recover by ascertaining
The glory of God for my life
That was covered by the darkness of the world
Uncovering and making my story to become off the books.
Tantolorun Omotayo
Every slate that has turn
My heart beats at every word pun
Holding tight to all my deed
I wasn’t sure I paid all my seed
Then, I heard my name as a Christ breed, Glory indeed!
Busayo Adegbulugbe
A cook may miss and remix if I’m pageless
Nevertheless, I’m not alive unless there’s a pen
And no ink until there’s a hand-writer
Write it down! Says Habakkuk
So, prophecies may fail, and professors also?
Adeyemi Michael Adetunji
With your foresight and insight, you predicted my precepts
Not like a propaganda of human traditions
But through the apocalypse of heavenly visions
Declaring a future filled with judgement and persecutions
Oh! Book of Revelations…
Grace Elioku
If you’ve been inspired greatly by a book, share your experience with us in the comments box below.
Cheers!
Beautiful. .