FUTURE POETS.

 Meet the future poets. 

1.       The Good mother – Tobi (A Shakespearean Sonnet)

I know a woman,

She was as proud as a peacock

Laughing like a man

She lives in a dock.

She has a million cars

She dearly loves her children,

And the offspring she took to child care

Yesterday, she flogged her children.

The woman is as light as a feather

She likes to sing

Yesterday  they had food together

In the morning they started singing

The woman one day fell down

But she got up back up with a crown.

Opatola  Tobi 

About The Poet.

Opatola Tobi is a sixteen year old writer. He hails from Ibadan Oyo State, Nigeria. He is currently studying at Shiloh High school, Kajola-Monatan Ibadan, Nigeria.

2.       The Guinea Fowl.

I beheld a guinea fowl

It was as dark as a charcoal

It is to me saying “how, wow!”

But it stays hidden in a pole

It suddenly fell in a pit

And started a sorrowful singing

It stopped for a bit

It is the tune of happy mourning

It had a moment of sweet relief

After eating over fifty bags of corn

Yet it never felt free with relieve

It its mental instability my cloth it torn

As slow as snail

It surrendered to its inevitable fate.

3.       A Bloody Boy. (An Italian Sonnet).

I was sitting on a wood

Alone in the pelting rain

With a very doomy mood

Then I saw train

In the train sat a lone boy

In his right hand was a long stick

In his left he held a dreadful toy

His torn cloth was bloody thick

The boy was happily sad

Sitting aloof on a wooden log

Beyond help was his sadness

In the train came a man ready to flog

The boy ran so fast away

To escape the impending doomsday.

4.       Lice- An unfounded fear.

I was in an empty room,

With a plate of rice,

Then I sighted a broom

On it sat a fat lice

It was a smite lice

It had a golden tiny wing

It looked a dice

The wing it used venom to fling

It stings merely by its looks

It looked like a bell

For long I took a look

After which it fell.

It was as light as a wool,

When in my hand I my hand I scooped.

About The Poet

Akano Ololade. 

Akano Ololade is a fourteen year old poet, author and playwright. She hails from Ibadan Oyo state Nigeria. She attended Iwo road Baptist School and she is currently studying at Shiloh High School, Monatan Ibadan. She loves writing drama, prose and poetry. The titles of some of her poems are: The Lice, The Bloody boy and Guinea fowl.

5.       The Ghost- Nelson (A Shakespearean Sonnet).

I played unconsciously away

With a friend’s dog

We missed our way

We were both wrong

We met a ghost

And we were afraid

The ghost was old

We sought for aid

The ghost let us free

We hastily thanked him

The dog and I quickly flee

And away we ran from him.

At dusk we found our way

We were missed when we went astray.

6.       The Boy and the Toy – Nelson. (A Shakespearean Sonnet).

There was a boy

He was prouder than a peacock

But he had a living toy.

Which could intelligently talk

The toy was big

And tirelessly it could play

It wore a wig

Its wig the boy daily plait.

The wig is beautifully dirty

The boy took a soap and a bowl

To wash away the grimy dirt

In the process he saw a foal

The foal was big

It was hung on a fig.

7.       The Phone - Nelson. (A patriarchal sonnet)

Now is a man

Driving alone downtown

In his can car

Then his phone fell down

This phone was big

And was very light

But it never rings

Always it is forever silent.

When he got home

He went to his room

And took his phone

With a feeling of doom

On a broom the Phone fell

And he cried till he swelled.

About The Poet.

Balogun Nelson. 

Balogun Nelson is an eleven year old poet and author. He hails from Edo State, Nigeria. He attended Strong Tower Group of schools for his primary school education and he is currently studying at Shiloh High School, Monatan Ibadan. He loves writing and reading. His three poems are tilted : The Ghost, The Phone Man and The Boy and The Toy.

8.       I saw a man- Chucks. (An Italian Sonnet)

He was as black as a charcoal

He likes a wealthy woman

He fell in among burning stones

In pains he heard a sound

Still he was offered a plate of rice

And he was given a wand

With which he set he escaped thrice.

He has a baby boy

And with the boy he went to an airport

His house was filled with oil

Yesterday he went to court

To complain against fight against the pool

After which he felt like a fool.

9.       The Foolish Man And The Boy – Chucks. (A Shakespearean sonnet).

The man is a fool.

In the night he senselessly sleeps

His water is sweet and cool

But he fills the water with feces

There was a man

Who has a bag

And in the bag, there was a fan

And the fan started to brag

The boy

Bought a book

With a big toy

And he took a look

After he took a look in a pool

He saw the fan at the bottom of the pool.

About The Poet.

Okeke Akachukwu 

Okeke Akachukwu is an eleven year old poet and writer. He attended Madonna Nursery and Primary school. He is currently studying at Shiloh High School, Monatan Ibadan. He loves reading and playing football.

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