OLUWAJIMI . J . THORPE

Praise God from whom all blessings flow.... It been a very lovely and adventurous year, We are "DEFINED." Next year publication is titled: "IT'S ALWAYS GETTING BETTER." Merry Christmas & Happy New Year in advance See you in 2019...            THE END

1. *Hot water will turn into ice faster than cold water.* 2. *The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.* 3. *The sentence, “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every letter in the English language.* 4. *The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.* 5. *Ants never sleep!* 6. *“I Am” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.* 7. *Coca-Cola was originally green.* 8. *The most common name in the world is Mohammed.* 9. *When the moon is directly overhead, you will weigh slightly less.* 10. *Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from the blowing desert sand.* 11. *There are only two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: “abstemious” and “facetious.”* 12. *The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.* 13. *There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.* 14. *TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyb...

When riches comes, call my attention, I have a story to tell. To thank Her for not been in a haste. For leading my feet to the school of discipline and my hands to hardwork by default, For building my faith on Christ the solid Rock by response, When Riches comes, remind me, I have a question to ask. Nothing so dearly, my heart won't give Sadness so far away because no value to gamble. Creativity, highly esteemed, so we rode on local wagons. At 100, our fathers were healthy, Natural herbs proved potent, unlike our 'so called' improved health care of today. Riches, Thank You!, Your delay made me wealthy. But Riches, unlike Silver-spoon babes, You live in their past, ready before birth, But to us, you live in our Future. Are you not accurate in statistics to see the future, Knowing those who love you and use you for others? From those who love you but use you solely for self? Everyone loves you, you know. Hmmm, Agur's prophetic revelation ...

To a coy mister Here's a coy mister. Shutting eyes to all sinister. Here's a coy mister Adjourning love fi esta. Here's a coy mister Loving to blister. Here's a coy mister Caring is a glister. Here's a coy mister Engrossed with timeless si esta. ....that dope eyes Would be eaten by lice. That covert fiesta Would become yester. That blister Would soon dister. That glister Would make him a lister That timeless siesta Would make him a eternal mister. © Apeketheblackbard

We wasted days and wished, Like princely kin to be, Yet when the day is dawn, And work is brought to us, We flinch and walk away. We wasted years and wished, That when we grew we'd reach, Heights to have been built, In perished years of youth, Then curse and cuss at life, For being quite unfair. The day is young for you, To make up for wasted years, For only while the sun shines, Would the hay be made ready, Lest wail you in turmoil, When the need shall arise. @4tuneHills ©2018

Can you imagine anything as chaotic as Lagos traffic, I mean seriously it's a mad house. My friend always told me how awesome Lagos is but that traffic tells a whole different story. How else do you explain getting in a bus and then the tire busts, the conductor puts you in another bus and that once tire busts too, all this when you are in a hurry! Wow! Then the Yeye conductor will open his brown teeth and be laughing, seriously. Lagos traffic has the ability to change people, it turns a perfect gentleman into a beast, a lady into an animal. It literally transforms you. But I guess that's what you have to do to survive. Off the road they are perfectly normal but Once they get on the road it's like something goes of in their heads and next thing we hear is hulk smash. Lagos traffic turns a ten to fifteen minutes journey to one hour fifteen minutes journey. I mean I have to get up at ungodly hours not to do ungodly things which would have been expected and/or acce...

their business... OUR interest.      their frustration OUR alteration.... ....     ........     their home OUR Cocoa-dome. their solitude OUR fortitude. their trial OUR flier. their flaw OUR law.         their strength        OUR threat.   their mourn OUR fun. WE Are. © Apeketheblackbard Artwork via: Lastritesgallery

To learn while still a child What this life is meant to be. To know it goes beyond myself, It's so much more than me. To overcome the tragedies, To survive the hardest times. To face those moments filled with pain, And still manage to be kind. To fight for those who can't themselves, To always share my light. With those who wander in the dark, To love with all my might. To still stand up with courage, Though standing on my own. To still get up and face each day, Even when I feel alone. To try to understand the ones That no one cares to know. And make them feel some value When the world has let them go. To be an anchor, strong and true, That person loyal to the end. To be a constant source of hope To my family and my friends. To live a life of decency, To share my heart and soul. To always say I'm sorry When I've harmed both friend and foe. To be proud of whom I've tried to be, And this life I chose to live. To make the most ...

We told a lie and we believed it It was retold over and over Even the cats believed it If you tell a lie long enough; It becomes your truth. We told them they don't belong with us, We black tag them In the night; curse and stone them This is the story of cats Especially the black ones But we identify with racism The same we show to these little Artwork by: Caminoalarte

The world is completely green to an innocent mind, but an innocent mind is indisputably blind. Evil has no chance in water and I've swam a Spring river, says a friend called Latifah. Ask her who sinks the ships in Bermuda, she would never know it's Lucifer. I once read about a lady. In the house of her parents was an adored baby. Give any code of conduct she would always obey, not in any way rough or uncouth; she would walk splendidly without relay. But sometime, her dresses started to fade, and when she went to a river to bade, she was kidnapped and eaten by a mermaid. No revenge possible; a river is not a place to attack or raid. To a child, the world is beautiful. He would sit by fire, not afraid but considers everything wonderful. But soon enough when burnt, he gets dreadful. Writers know what the world is: a man could gather all sorts of wealth but for a while would the wealth be his. Yet when we write we call the world "beautiful", how we love to tease...

To the youth of our generation;what do we call this infantile display of IQ of our so called leaders...They have said so many things to us in the name of change yet we took it hook,line and sinker because we believed we voted them in and so in this case every of our answers has to be yes to them. Everyday is a new distraction (if it was relevant I won't even be pained)One time it was display of different letters (maybe they were doing a sort of grammatic competition i don't know because I'm yet to see the relevance of these letters). Later came news about huge amounts of money being kept in abandoned properties. As if that wasn't enough those hopeless creatures fabricated stories about animals taking up human properties( please o when did money became food for snake for it to have swallowed 36million naira,abi monkey does not recognise banana anymore that it mistook money for it?). In addition to that...rat pursued Mr President out his office can you imagine?! ...

To learn while still a child What this life is meant to be. To know it goes beyond myself, It's so much more than me. To overcome the tragedies, To survive the hardest times. To face those moments filled with pain, And still manage to be kind. To fight for those who can't themselves, To always share my light. With those who wander in the dark, To love with all my might. To still stand up with courage, Though standing on my own. To still get up and face each day, Even when I feel alone. To try to understand the ones That no one cares to know. And make them feel some value When the world has let them go. To be an anchor, strong and true, That person loyal to the end. To be a constant source of hope To my family and my friends. To live a life of decency, To share my heart and soul. To always say I'm sorry When I've harmed both friend and foe. To be proud of whom I've tried to be, And this life I chose to live. To make the most...

  The strongest couples give each other the benefit of the doubt, for one. A healthy relationship doesn’t just happen by accident. It takes two people, however imperfect, who are committed to putting in the work to better themselves and improve their partnership in the process. See what relationship experts had to say below: 1. You don’t take the little things personally. “Rather than assume the worst, healthy couples will ascribe the best possible motive in the face of mistakes. Forgot to pick up the dry cleaning? Left the car with almost no gas? Rather than think, ‘She doesn’t care about me’ or, ‘He’s just out for himself,’ they think, ‘Even the most loving partners sometimes screw up.’” ―Winifred M. Reilly, marriage and family therapist and author of It Takes One to Tango 2. You can talk openly about anything  even tricky topics. “Sex, money, frustrations, desires. Healthy couples want to know what the other thinks and feels even though the truth m...

A lot of people like to talk about how easy it is to fall in love when you’re falling in love with the right person. But not a lot of people bring up the fact that it’s just as easy to fall out of love with someone. And that’s going to be the subject of this article. When you’re in a relationship with someone you love, you must always make sure that you’re not taking this relationship for granted. You always want to be exerting as much effort as possible into this relationship. You want to be making sure that you are doing whatever you can to make this relationship work. Otherwise, you risk letting your love die like an untended flower in a vast garden. Like any flower, you must make sure that you give your relationship the attention and sustenance it needs to survive. That’s why it’s absolutely imperative that you always do your best to stay on top of things. You have to be perceptive. You have to have great attention to detail. You have to ensure that the love that you h...

Ikorodu is technically the last known bus stop from my place which was still a tripple goal kicks away. I can remember taking that path in the evening time every single day except for  Fridays' when we get the opportunity to see the real sun painting on the walls of the street.  With coolers in our hands, we bounce and jog all the way home especially when we are few minutes late against the time that the big clock in the sitting room has given to us through the ordination of mother; the spokesperson of our ceremonial dad, lyrics of eventful songs bouncing on our lips, some that we frightfully sing and some similar ones that we chew. There are some few times however that we get sober in our minds, single thoughts on individual minds, little little thoughts that would eventually make a ball of stories to be treated down the valley, on our way to the farm on saturdays. On such occasions, my eardrum gets thinner and this permits me the trouble of hearing the whistling of th...

Over the years Nigerian schools were practical workshops where education was not only available but actually put into practice. Pupils who finished standard six in the 50s were highly literate and well respected. Jobs were also waiting for products of both primary and secondary school students. Big companies like G.B. Ollivant and Leventis competed in the recruitment of university graduates and 200 level undergraduates were interviewed for jobs pending graduation one year later. However, Six or seven Decades down the line the scenario changed dramatically. At this point, government was not proactive in the provision of education opportunities for those who cannot continue upto secondary school and in order not to be seen as weakening,students are cowed into entering secondary school without sound academics prowess. This to a large extent predisposes such students to unemployment after graduation since they will come out not having sound certificates or at worst end up immersed ...

Good night Abeni! But in case you refuse to Let go of the galore in the snow garden With the speaking flowers and jesting torns, I'll help you tell Baba that You had worried about him since He left his scar unattended to Thinking the giant bee will sting Him and defecate sweetness on it. I'll also tell afokóyerí that you challenged Her to a battle of relevance and relativity. I'll tell her of your boast to turn her upside-down And pull of her rib for trinity digestion. I'll tell the cloud of your wishes, I'll tell her of your deepest fear, I'll tell her to form the face of Your mother and make her happy That she can get to breastfeed you again. And if you wake up, I'll sing the song of atótó-arére To the cow skin of your ear, Eulogizing the skin of your palm And the scalp of your gìgísè. I'll remind you still of the Wickedness of the sixth day creation. I'll yet remind you of your true self. Of the images you paint o...

I heard they tried to find a cure, The doctor i mean, Nay, i actually meant the Journalist; The investigative ones,  Well which ever one of them Do writers burn out? Or the books get written off the mind shelves? Where do book ideas come from sef?? Many thoughts, Many thought the writers block is the end of a writer So they researched a cure for the writers block It was going to be the biggest finding ever, Time was spent Money and wealth An agreement it is, It is time to submit the formulae to the pill, The pill that pulls the plug, The plug called writers block He submitted his work And on it Nothing was written. *here is a poem where nothing rhyme about nothing* @king45prime  #Nothingchallange

Night dreams, morning dreams! Babyish, child-like, a man seems! Touches provoking genital streams! Eyes of man, banjo beams! Blind eyes on fleshy mounds Stir protrusion in clothed grounds, And silky homes turn battlegrounds, Oh no, oh yes, several rounds. Where I love I last not, Beatrice begs I lick her pot. Feelings absent, I shoot a lingering shot But dame wants forever in her spot. Miserable is the man on his own, Nice but secret films on his phone, Walks Ikoyi, Egbeda in pheromonal cologne But sadly his dreams, he waters alone. -Lord eBay, 2018. #eStreetWriters Artwork By: Duke Asidere

I belong to the Black world Though I like piano I belong to 🥁. Drums. Though I cherish gold I belong to Segi. Though I like Jerry curl I belong to Suku Though I cherish pop I belong to Apala. Though I like free style I belong to Ewi. Though I like high heels I belong to the Erosoft. Though I like dinner gown I belong to Oleku. Though I like cinema I belong to Ere Osupa and Itage. Though I like Simi's special I belong to Africa Nubia Though I await Godot' I belong to Eye of the Earth Though I use carowhite I belong to the Black I belong to naturalism I feel nostalgic I belong to the Black Orpheus.... Apeketheblackbard Black Africa

This is the story of a boy who couldn't read. Oh I don't mean that he was dull, cause he wasn't.. He just couldn't read. John wanted to be a writer, you see he was fascinated by the stories he heard and the movies he watched and he too wanted to tell his own. Because of his difficult in reading, his mother had to read the books out to him, but that didn't stop them from being real to him. While other children fell in love with actors and musicians, his own hero where great writers like Chimamamda and Chinue Achebe. But he still couldn't read. School was John's worst nightmare, his teachers always called him a dullard and his class mates made fun of him. When results came, John didn't have to check his to know that he came in last. The only ray of sunshine was Mrs Chijoke, his English teacher. You see Mrs Chijoke was a writer, she always regaled the students with tales from her books. John loved her passion and that encouraged him to keep o...

   democracy by definition and dispensation suppose to be a blessing to any nation practising it including but not limited to Nigeria in Africa.     Democracy is a blessing to every country that has practiced democracy the right way. Mark my words *“the right way”*. The cornerstone of democracy is freedom. Freedom to live and let others live, Freedom to do the right thing otherwise be prosecuted to the highest degree that the law permits without any fear or favor. .  Nigeria is a great country, blessed with both human and material resources. The politicians in Nigeria have really messed up the country with the exception of a few. Corruption is at a level never imagined, democratic structures are too many and are very expensive to maintain. There is total neglect and lack of planning for the next generation of Nigerian. The youth are living without a future The supplemental sources of Nigeria’s revenue built in the 60’s and 70;s are nonfunctional or ...

Nigeria Independence still has to be taken with a grain of salt. Indeed we keep celebrating the anniversary of our Independence but yet our political structure, economic policy and our way of doing things still left much to be said. The nation indeed is still in the hands of few political mosquitoes believing that they are too powerful to be dealt with because they have both financial and political muscle. They have turned this great country's resources into a National cake that must be shared among themselves. Today in history marks 19th years of transition to civilian rule after the military interrugum that lasted for 13years. According to Abraham Lincoln he defined democracy has the government of the people for the people and by the people. However, In Nigeria every 29th of May is always the celebration of our Democracy but yet we have little and noting to show for it but frayed nerves,shattered Infrastructure and destrcution of the education sector. It is all full of bl...

The sadness drowns me. The emptiness consumes my life. We used to be so happy. You were going to be my wife. Everything went great, Everything seemed perfect, Till you went out late, And my entire life got wrecked. I got lost in your eyes. I was dazed by your smile. Now yet again I have to compromise. I was suicidal for a while. If there is one thing I learned From all of this darkness in my life, It's that every angel out of heaven needs to be returned, And I know I will see you in the afterlife. You brought me smiles, you brought me tears. I gave you happiness, I gave you scars, But together we overcame all our fears And stayed up all night staring at the stars. Without you here, it is hard to breathe. Without you, I feel empty. I can't help but seethe, And I still remember your jokes about that tree. You gave me wisdom in the lowest of places. You gave me faith in the darkest of days. You gave me peace no matter the race. You gave me love...

Sometimes in relationships, we choose to ignore the obvious and not-so-obvious red flags either because we really don’t know that they’re red flags or because we just want to hang on to the initial green light and spark we got at the beginning of the relationship. Whatever group you belong to, it’s important that you know what these red flags are and identify them on time before things get out of hands and your heart is left completely shattered. Below, I share 5 signs that shows the man you’re dating just might be a serial cheater. Thank me later! His texting goes hot and cold This is common with guys who have so many other girls they are keeping up with due to sudden disinterest. Changes in his routine The main changes you should be concerned about are those that result in them being unavailable to spend time with you. If your partner fixes a date with you and then suddenly bails out without any reasonable explanation or gets busi...

It’s great when we finally find someone we love who actually loves us back. Sometimes, we only find that very special someone after a long time of searching. As a result, we’d do anything to keep hold of them. Perhaps this is where you’re at now. You’ve found your special someone, and you want to make sure they know how much they mean to you. But how do you go about doing this when it’s all too easy to fall into a humdrum routine of doing the same thing over and over again? The truth is that there are lots of ways you can show your appreciation to the person you love. Here are 10 romantic ways to show love to your special someone. Cook His Favourite Meal They say that the key to a man’s heart is through his stomach – and they’re absolutely right. There is no better way of saying “I Love You Forever” than cooking his favourite meal for him. The best time to do this is after he’s had a long, stressful day at work. Instead of returning home to yet a...

Perhaps you just got into a new relationship, or you’ve been dating someone for a while, but either way, you’ve found yourself feeling a bit worried about your future together, looking for signs your relationship won’t last.  You probably feel your partner is pulling away a little, or maybe your passion for each other is beginning to fade. Or you just have weird feeling deep down in your gut that something isn’t right and you don’t even really know why. 4 signs your relationship won’t last long 1. Your passion for each other is fading When you feel your passion for your man or even just your passion for everything in general fading, then you know you’ve got a real issue to deal with. Also, if your man seems like he has lost interest in doing things he once enjoyed, that could be a sign, because it shows that he (or if it’s in your case, you) no longer really care. When your guy no longer has preferences, it usually means he has one foot out the d...

We don’t want to downplay the importance of those three little words that two weeks or two years into a relationship still have the power to make your heart skip a beat. But while knowing how to say “I love you” at the right time is essential, so are other phrases, each with their own positive ripple effects in your relationship. Here’s how to tell a girl you love her, all while uttering these phrases she is dying to hear. 1. “You can do it.” Perhaps one of the most important roles a partner plays in our lives is cheerleader. So whether you’re ready to tap out and leave unswallowed that last delicious bite of gelato or preparing to lead a huge work project solo, it’s time for your partner to break out the pom-poms and cheer you on. 2. “I’m proud of you.” When you finish that last bite of a healthy salad instead of your usual doughnut or kick butt at your work project, the best thing your man can do is swell with pride and express ...

This family wouldn’t be what it is today without you Dad. You are the best! The Thorpe's Clan