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January 2018

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STRANGERS -By- Ejagede Wisdom

by Eden Benibo

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Ejagede Wisdom🔔
Here’s a young poet who has the capacity to connect with hearts through words. Wisdom, (a lover of music and poetry) is currently a Mechanical Engineering student of Delta State Polytechnic.
Yes! Once again we’ve got another unbiased soul who embraces the resplendence of art blended in science.
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Today on Express~Shun, Wisdom shares a sagely written piece-Titled: STRANGERS

She was,
A maiden pure and undefiled
Celebrated for her celibacy,
As she moved elegantly with her untapped
palmwine kegs, sealed from monkey men.

She was,
Her mother’s joy
Her father’s delight
Beautiful but bent
Plagued by an unfortunate event.

She was,
With mouth closed as her seal got broken
In her plight suffered each passing day
Tears fermented on her pillow night after night
And even darkness had eaten up her soul.

She was,
Coerced by a strangers touch
Her virgin hands had held evil
Thirsting for freedom with no one to fight
For a sip of justice.

Now she is,
A seer in the dark;
Finding KAMIKAZE the only path in sight
The shadow of what she was-
A stranger to herself.
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I found her so,
But I loved her still
Right in that darkness;
Squeezing into her space

Now I’m hanging here still,
Cause when she took her breath away
She took mine too…

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Thanks Wisdom! Keep telling the untold stories, as you soar higher in the literary space and beyond…
Glow on🥂

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The Wild Wedding -By-Samson Abanni

by Eden Benibo

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Samson Abanni🔔
Here’s a medical student from Afikpo, who can simply be described as an interpreter of life through poetry. It takes a heart that understands the language of silence to hear when the eyes speak.
Our wordsmith for the week,  Samson Abanni, is a lover of silence and an interpreter of solitude. A soul that has the courage to feel everything so deeply, cutting through the crust of words unspoken.
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Today on Express~Shun, we bring to You an explicit piece by Samson ~Titled
The Wild Wedding~
They didn’t rent a hall, they used the whole earth,
this sparrow and its fiance about to wed.
The sky is not so bright, but who was looking up?
The grasses had agreed on green and a touch of anything else.
The wind was chosen to serve light refreshments.

I don’t know their art of courtship, or the lay of her considerations,
but here they stand, a bride and groom in everyday dress.
If this man had made money, it did not show,
If this bride had new eyelashes, it wasn’t obvious,
for they look just like every other sparrow.
And as the spear grasses now stood on their feet,
two pairs of yellow feet strut forward, side by side.

The earth kept rotating, but it’s attention was devided.
The wind kept sprinkling fragrance and petals, life was everywhere.
heads kept raised, chest forward they approached an unseen altar..
And how I envied them,
the way they had made ordinary, so special

On this great day, life wore exactly the same make-up,
for the quality of life does not depend on its colours.
the sky was cloudy, but that does not make the day sad.
All parts of a Diamond does not have to look uniform,
for it to be beautiful.

The affair was noiseless because life speak silence.
But being a man I just kept wondering , and asking myself .
Have they planned their finances?
Have they chosen Career paths and decided on insurance cover?
what of the number of kids and the mix of the sexes?
Then i wondered if I wasn’t wondering too much,
for it seems sparrows leave all their worries to the man behind the science that gets them airborne,
and keep them there.
So I didn’t enquire about the wedding reception ,
but I know the choir was in heaven, because I knew the Chief host.
I know they will live happy, I know they will live for each other,
I know they will never divorce.
I know sparrows marry for life.
I know I have studied them, even though i don’t yet understand,
how they have found the heaven,
we are still trying to invent.

~~~~~Wow!
Samson, thanks for sharing this didactic piece. We hope each reader ‘feels’ the life behind the letters.
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Did we mention that he is also the host of an annual poetry contest~ ‘Samson Abanni Poetry Contest’. In few words he describes himself as one who believes in Jesus and lives simply.
We look forward to seeing Samson soar higher🥂

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Aloud

I Knew You- By- Benson Oseghe

by Eden Benibo

Benson Oseghe🔔
We describe him as art personified. A young man of few words with so much impacts. As a poet and a fine artists in duality, he has stood out beyond all odds as one of the gifted souls to look out for. Below is an indispensable piece written by Benson~ Titled: I Knew~~~~~~~

I knew you before makeup ever touched your face
Right before you started laying Foundation like a bricklayer
Before you kissed those lipsticks and groom those eyebrows
Before you let those contours and blushes define your beauty
I knew you before those eyelashes exaggerate the way you blink and those piercings affected the way you think
I knew you before you scrambled nature’s very design
Before you ever try to replace what was needed with what you wanted
I knew you before your face added shades
When you were young, pure and naive

I met you before snapchat added filters to your self-esteem
Before selfies put only you in the picture
Even in a group photo you only care about your smile
I met you before you ever updated your status with lies
I knew your ugly sides before your mood swing found comfort disguised in sent emojis

We’ve talked without dictions or borrowed accents
You’ve come visiting caring not about looks but decent
But now you seek advice from the mirror like a native doctor
I met you when the world gazed at the sound of your laughter but now you barely even smile at a conspicuous joke
You feel some breaking in your face when you laugh too deep
But beauty ain’t no prison
Now to your question about how you look
You look like you’ve been messing with PERFECTION lately.

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Thanks Benson! This is a masterpiece indeed.  We look forward to tasting more of your salted words. Glow on dear!!

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4 Steps To Soaring In This New Year

by Eden Benibo

Sure, no one wants to end the year staggering within the ‘circle of regrets’ but it all goes beyond making mere wishes. No doubts it’s good to pray but we also have a part to play and the role of building our knowledge bank cannot be over emphasised.
On this 3rd day of the year 2018, we bring to you~ 4 Steps To Soaring In This New Year

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Walking through the stairs of 365 days without missing steps, go beyond making new year resolutions. Taking each day as a step on the stairs of this new phase-(2018), we would realise that as days crawl into weeks and weeks run into months in the course of the year, the will to thrive beyond all odds may begin to dwindle. As a result of this, hopes will definitely fall whenever we miss our steps in the course of this journey.
To this end, it is important for us to note that It’s not enough to ‘make’ new year resolutions; it’s more paramount for us to become them.

Yes! Become those resolutions! Consequentially, this connotes that each day counts! In other words, those tiny seconds, little minutes and few hours in each day matters a lot.
In other not to get the same result at the end of this new year, we must change our approach to life in general.
It’s high time we realised that-
°Change isn’t just a theoretical phenomenon
°Change isn’t a part of life
°Change is life itself-
So, it’s either we live it or it leaves us behind.

●Start Now! Start Right

Sometimes, we never discover the beginning until the end. This is why many are left stuck in heaps of regrets towards the end of the year, but hey! This is another phase, another beginning to determine the end. There’s no better time to execute those beautiful plans in your head than now. “A good plan vigorously executed right now is far better than a perfect plan executed next week”.- General George Patton

●Start Right
It’s never wrong to start right; but the big question is- HOW DO WE START RIGHT?
The first step to starting right begins with the mind. Most times, life may leave our minds clogged up with so much negativities that we tend to close our hearts to the opportunities that come knocking. Goals and dreams seem to be far fetched, especially when one is surrounded by people who are ready to give 101 reasons to be contented with failure.
Here, it is required that you go not just steps away, but miles far from these negativities. No wonder Gandahi said-” I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feets. Bill Newman also asserted that “minds certainly are like parachutes, they only function when they are open”. Indeed, an open mind is most sensitive to even the faintest footprint of opportunities, rather than lingering within the confine of self pity.

●Live Ready!

How ready are we, for the opportunities we crave for? The truth is, opportunities are right there on each step of the stairs. As we build on our abilities, we lay a stronger foundation for our capabilities.
Learn something new each day! “In time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exist”. -Eric Hoffer
“The illiterates of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn.”,-Alvin Toffler

●Carrying People Along

Imagine a life where you have the whole world to yourself, just you with nobody else. No one to share the wealth with, or the joy, peace and love – if there will even be any…
As we go through the steps on these stairs of 2018, let’s remember that we all need each other, regardless of the ‘buts’. Therefore, we need not get too serious with life that we forget to put a smile on a face each day in this new phase. We need not push ourselves off the stairs, for everyone has a pace, a lane and a destination which is the beauty of life.
“It’s not how high you climb, but how many people you are prepared to take with you”.- Dale Carnegie

As you go through these stairs, remember, taking the wrong steps will never get you the right result.

Just Live the change you desire! start now! Start right! Live ready!
And always carry people along
You may not have silver to deliver
But you sure do have love and care to share.

Cheers! To this new dawn

~E D E N

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