BOOK PREVIEW UNLEASH YOUR POTENTIAL is attested highly inspiring book would practically induce you to: • discover and tap from the pool of potential within you. • convert your potential into kinetic benefit to you and to mankind • be a motivation to others around you positively.
QUOTES
by Abegunde Sunday for Poets :
"Poetry is an interesting game - an Intellectual puzzle for scholars"
"No one truly poetic would hate a poetic critic"
"If prose is mathematics, poetry is further maths"
"In cooking poetry, imagery is the salt, rhythm is the fire and the heat source is creativity"
Abegunde Sunday O.
(SPEAKING PEN )
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I was there @ Fist of Words - 1st edition of WRR Poetry Festival has come and gone but the memories lingers on?
Journeying down from Lagos to Ibadan yesterday was so stressful due to traffic congestion along Redemption camp, which transmuted a one hour journey to a journey of close to four hours. The time was no issue but the boredom of stagnation didn't make the journey fun at all. I wished at that point 'say I don stay my house jeje'.
Sea change surfaced in my perception when at long last I alighted and saw poet Bada Yusuf, who had just disembarked from a bus too. I beheld the beautiful gate of the University of Ibadan. Suddenly, my adrenaline starts to gush rushing with great speed for curiosity.
Art Theatre - The venue of the poetry festival, here I am, let me in. An open mic session was on after which was 'gban gaun gban gaun... *break time'. This was when my heart forgave me for the stressful journey and my fatigued body bade bye to the goddess of slumber with any chant of abracabra. We have photo shots for short people like James Ademuyiwa and photo tall for tall people like Graciano.
Seeing Sir Eriata, Dr RAphael, Sir Enigmatic, Sir KIS, Sir Grrrrraciano among others natural sends joyous stimulus to a poetic heart...
My very penning family members like Poet Tolu Impact, BArDa, Emma Faith, Dame Kemjy and Rachael graced the event as promised.
Poets stomped the stage with VERY AMAZING performances. Among which includes UCHE UWADINACHI's highlyu entertaining spoken words with dramatic gesticulations. Then came then came the MOST IMPRESSIVE quality POETRY PERFORMANCE 2015 by Ayoola Goodness. That guy is now rumoured to have gotten those stunning imageries from Mercury. No... Some argued it was imported from Venus though produced at Mars. Water available.. Me I sha no say him tiiiiight gan. James Conco, Samurai, Faith, and my wonderful brother in the Lord, Paul Alowo among others did very fine. Oh! I almost forgot to tell how KEMISTREE was almost KIDNAPPED, I mean adult-napped by one guy like that who filled the ARTmosphere with sweet sweet love poemu... I guess all girls, ladies, women and grandmas present must have been moved by the poetical anointing.
I mount the stage at last to... Read off hands abi recite de nii abi... Mio tie mo jare. I sha voice an amazing peom of mine titled "Go On African Soldiers". Thanks to SAM DE POET and those like my newest friend TIWISTAR opined it was wonderful. Here it is text :
GO ON! AFRICAN SOLDIERS!
I flip my brain like book to search for words
As I pulled my pen straight from my heart
And let my pen speak for scripts to note
What my heart indicts on insurgency.
Why wouldn’t we war
to restore pissed-off peace
from the cruelty hands of all these
drunken gods of Sambisa – Bok’ Haram?
Why wouldn’t we war
when our formality for amity
in humility was decoded as insanity
so they retorted us with witless hostility?
Why wouldn’t we war
when dove of peace which hovers
over them with peace paper now suffers
encaged in rage by violent agents – insurgents?
Why wouldn’t we war
when the distress of unrests
‘cause cursed Bok’ men’s brains regress
and Nigeria amnesty they did bid ‘bad’ bye?
Why wouldn’t we war
when they’ve abducted Chibok girls
hosting these school girls as cynical guests
having them battered, raped, or as we’d guess…
Why wouldn’t we war
when they’ve attacked to destroy us first
and they injure in joy to cause us holocaust
as their merciless gunshots drown kids in blood?
Why wouldn’t we war
when surrounded by those foes
aiming to scrunch the treasured rose
of brotherhood, which we’d wisely watered?
Why wouldn’t we war when
whether we watch without warring
or fight for freedom, they’d keep us worrying
about killings and bombings, until we war and win?
Why wouldn’t war, armed armies
unite to war these enemies, by all means,
before bad Boko’ bomb-blasts, brutally burn
Naija, Niger, Cam’roun and Chad, as trashes’ ashes?
Why wouldn’t my mind find hard lines
to stir soldiers with wild war words, which
vents vengeance for emergence of insurgents
so our bold soldiers should attack our attackers?
Thanks to Penfreak, without which I wouldn't have been able to make it down
Thanks to Brigitte Poirson. I got my BPPC runner up certificate and copy of Wind of Change (in which my poem 'Really Ridiculously Religious' is featured. I am happy with that.
I got my copy of Kukogho Iruesiri Samson's "What Can Words do?"
Thanks to the entire WRR Crew, EGC Crew and the SFEV Crew too for their apparent roles in ensuring the success of the event.
I journey home in this bus right now as I type hearing my heart whispering 'it was worth the stress of coming'
God bless us all!
Abegunde Sunday Olaoluwa @SPEAKINGPEN
THE INSIDER NEWSPAPER
WHAT MANNER OF SPEAKER IS OAU STUDENT UNION PRESIDENT?
Saturday 4th July, 2015 by Abegunde Sunday O. (SpeakingPen) O
n Saturday 4th July, 2015 at Aud. II, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife Osun State, an event which proved greatest Ife students to be people of proven intellectual took place; the official book launching of the book ‘The Ujuzi’.
This event was graced by; the #1 student of Obafemi Awolowo University in person of Omotayo Oluwadare Akande (TY), Great Ife Student Union president, Neonatar, and Deji Solanke (News Agency of Nigeria, NAN), Damilola Opaniran (Union of Campus Journalist, University of Ibadan) among other prominent persons present. Prof. Gbemisola Adeoti (Author of Naked Sole) and Dr. E.T.O Babalola were also expected at the event but were actually absent for reasons not announced to the audience.
This book, Ujuzi is a compilation of works of several talented young writers lead by Deji-Akin. It would not have been anything astounding if Deji-Akin is an English student but surprisingly, he is an undergraduate of Social Statistics and Demography department. This is the official release of a new anthology of poems and short stories.
Deji Solanke of News Agency of Nigeria, the first speaker stated, “Men will forget you; men will not forget whatever you write”. On a lighter note, he passed a constructive criticism on the book saying that the Story 10 on the content page of the book, “When Life is Young”.
Sani Michael (Mr. Lively), the Master of ceremony humourously livens up the event, as audience are so thrilled and happy. Tee Law, a campus celebrity artiste (as called by the MC), mount the podium to perform his song ‘Amin’. The Odun Ewi’s presentation was so magnificent that it promotes aesthetics of the African rich culture.
The Financial Secretary of the Great Ife Student Union Government pronounced that the student union launches the book, Ujuzi with an undisclosed amount of money. Then other launchers follow suit.
A thunderous applause ensued as the MC called on the second Speaker in person of Omotayo (TY), Student Union President, who is admired by many Great Ife students for his outstanding oratory skills. The difference about his talks this time is that this is not like his talks in fight for justice and rights of Great Ife Student which is always characterized by a sense of vengeance for peace.
Omotayo speaks in a lighter atmosphere about ‘Writing’. TY explained that “Nothing great starts without writing”. He gave an illustration of how the Russian revolution and French revolution started by the use of written articles to stir up emotions of the people to fight for their right. He explained that one of the major problems of the student union body is problems of written history. He said the Hon. Seun 2.50 crisis would have been easily resolved if the said previously made parliamentary resolution had been well written.
He spoke of the decadence of interest in writing in our generation. He encouraged everyone to cultivate the act of writing. In his words, “Writing should be an act and not a profession”. He explains that universities do not offer admission into ‘Writing Department’ as writing need not be a course. He hammered the point that everyone can and should write about his or her area of interest.
Everyone must have left the event thinking TY will make a great motivational speaker someday in the near future.
Speaking Pen International Concept in conjunction with Caprecon Development Foundation is delighted to invite submissions from poets from any country for publication in an anthology titled PEACE IS POSSIBLE.
PEACE IS POSSIBLE: Poems about peace and peaceful co-existence. Peace among different races, different nations, different organizations, different individuals, families, different religions and lots more.
The book (Peace is Possible) would be published in the USA. 30 to 40 poems would be selected for publication in this anthology. Free copies would be shipped to poets whose poem(s) make it as one of the best 5 entries. They will also get copy of Abegunde Sunday’s bestselling book, ‘Unleash Your Potential Beyond Just Motivation’. Winners would also get honoured at the next edition of Speaking Pen Award.
No submission fees are required and no royalties will be paid to authors. By entering your poems for this anthology, you are donating to global charity because all proceeds from this book go to charitable movements.
Poets are free to submit any form of the poems to submit but poets who endeavour to write a particular poetry form other than free verses and blank verses would have a higher advantage of being selected for publication.
Each poem submitted should be between 12 to 28 lines.
Poets can submit a maximum of 3 poems for consideration.
You may submit unpublished or published poems. In the case of published poems, you will be required to write a short paragraph, stating that you own the copyright and permit Speaking Pen International Concept and Caprecon Development Foundation to use and publicly publish it.
You still reserve the copyrights to your submitted works and you can use it as it pleases you anywhere else.
Please send an email to the editor at sunnystar247@yahoo.com or www.speakingpen.net/contact-us.html with your name and PEACE IS POSSIBLE as the subject line.
Your submission should also include the following:
i. Name
ii. Email address
iii. Mailing address
iv. Mobile phone number
v. A short bio of not more than 120 words
Submissions that do not follow the guidelines may not be honoured.
Submissions are open until 28th April, 2013
EDITOR: Abegunde Sunday Olaoluwa
EDITORIAL CONSULTANT: Dollin Holt
PUBLISHER: Speaking Pen International Concept
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