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Osadolor Osayande
Member since September 14, 2017
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Refugee Mother And Child by Chinua Achebe
No Madonna and Child could touch
that picture of a mother's tenderness
for a son she soon would have to forget.
The air was heavy with odours
of diarrhoea of unwashed children
with washed-out ribs and dried-up
bottoms struggling in laboured
steps behind blown empty bellies. Most
mothers there had long ceased
to care but not this one; she held
a ghost smile between her teeth
and in her eyes the ghost of a mother's
pride as she combed the rust-coloured
hair left on his skull and then -
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singing in her eyes - began carefully
to part it… In another life this
would have been a little daily
act of no consequence before his
breakfast and school; now she
did it like putting flowers
on a tiny grave.
Osadolor Osayande’s timeline
- September 2022
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14 WedAnniversary
5 years of membership
- October 2018
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24 WedNew follower
@IRiz
- September 2018
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14 FriAnniversary
One year of membership
- June 2018
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04 MonCritiqued
"Filtered Through the Heart" by @gregwa8
"I really love the resolution of the poem. I love the fact that you made us understand that life is the river. My little problem comes from thinking that the following lines could have had a little more justification. "b…" - December 2017
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14 ThuReceived a critique
on Refugee Mother And Child by Chinua Achebe from @tonebone
"i felt as if i were an intruder, and even a little ashamed of witnessing it. perhaps that was it's objective. i'll say no more." -
14 ThuReceived a critique
on Refugee Mother And Child by Chinua Achebe from @Chiori
"the Biafran war, it affected the eastern children in those days, I had always known that war is not an issue to advocate for" -
13 WedReceived a critique
on Refugee Mother And Child by Chinua Achebe from @Marvel Godwyn
"I think this poem depicts a scene of children left in total abandonement by mothers in a refuge camp.But not this particular one who would do anything for her child inspite of how slim his survival appears." -
13 WedFirst publication
Refugee Mother And Child by Chinua Achebe
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13 Wed
- October 2017
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17 TueNew follower
@sewie smalls
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16 MonCritiqued
"Red wagon of nothing (October Contest)" by @Steph.ania
"When I first read this poem, I was thinking to myself, "How could she be so truthful?" Lol. But that's it, sometimes (if not all the time) you do not need to induce art. It should come out when you feel it communing wit…" -
13 FriCritiqued
"Impermanence " by @Rhiannon1010
"What I wanted to know about the line UNLOCKING MY PAST INTO MY HUSBAND'S ROOM was this: Did you successfully overcome your longing for your pristine home, or did you reanimate it by making your present abode into what y…" -
13 FriCritiqued
"Impermanence " by @Rhiannon1010
"I am not exactly a fan of overt poems but I think this one is awesome!!!! Well I might beg to disagree with what has been said about the logic being incomprehensible. It all flowed. Unpacking my past into my husband's r…" -
13 FriCritiqued
"losing the muse" by @sewie smalls
"Nice poem. Have a few questions. Who were the "us" you spoke of? Secondly (it might just be me thinking) unless I didn't understand the poem at all, I think ZILCH was too much of an exaggeration in a bid to to describe…" -
06 FriCritiqued
"“Shadow Days”" by @Sparrow
"I think it is a wonderful poem. The logic flowed and ended well. But I think you were so beautifully hopeful about the future to have chosen the title, "Shadow days." Or maybe it's just me thinking. The world will not s…" -
06 FriCritiqued
"Time Evokes Love" by @chevyvent
"First of all Chevyvent, I will love to know who provided cadence to the wanderer. Where you personifying time?" -
05 ThuCritiqued
"We are sacred land" by @Steph.ania
"It reminds me of how quickly we lose our curiosities in life. How we think we have experienced it all and lose the joy of creating pleasures from our routines." - September 2017
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25 MonFirst critique offered
on "THE FAULT IN OUR STARS" by @purplekay
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14 ThuJoined Neopoet
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About Me
About me
In order to own life, I write. What better way to make my ownership long lasting than to be myself - a poet.
Location: Nigeria, Port Harcourt, NGA
Favorite Poets
Maya Angelou
Chinua Achebe
Wole Soyinka
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Workshops
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| Poets of West Africa in English | (syllabus) | Splash Pool | Concluded |