Yenegoa, Bayelsa by Oletu Oghenenyore C.

YENEGOA, BAYELSA

[for the marginalized lands in the Core Delta basin:

Delta, Bayelsa and Rivers State 

Plus some parts of Ondo and Akwa Ibom states)]

Yenegoa,

What a magnificent city

In the Delta Creek 

Wetland with divine flora and fauna

Headquarter of the cashflow 

Milking asphalt from the Core Delta 

I remember admiring you yesterday

While the stars line the night sky 

With light powered by the gas turbine

Crawling from Igbogene border 

To the shoreline of Swali

Beautifully engineered with high roads 

And low houses plus monkey bridges 

Connecting the hinter streets

Today, much have changed

With the scale still reading to the minus

Who would have tell

That with twenty-six years of history

You will still stand gallant but in bewildered darkness 

Cos your sons preferred the artificial turfs in Abuja

To your natural mysteries

That a hundred years of studies can't unearth

No skyscrapers and scenic view yet

Except the Tower of Babel at Berger junction 

Plus debris loitering hereto and there

You ought to be by now a proud maiden 

Gunning for Miss World Contest, cities categories

With Osaka and Geneva’s and Shanghai 

Yet you miss out on the head-to-head drill

With Lagos and Abuja whose dead bodies 

Were revivied with your vomit

Yvzour sons trek in foreign lands

Like slave riders to send home some dollars

Yet on paper you boast as the highest recipient 

Of the Federal allocation lot

Oh Boro!

May your labour not be in vain

©® Nyore Note

Oletu Oghenenyore

Oletu Oghenenyore C. (pen-name: Nyore Note) is a content creator, storyteller, aluminium fabricator, rebel-poet and activist whose content resonates with the everyday happening around him. He’s from Delta State but based in the Creek area of Southern Nigeria. His works have appeared in many anthologies and online journals like ArtingArena, Poemify, The Yellow House Library, Williwash, etc. He can be reached via Facebook, Twitter and Instagram @NyoreNote @Oletu Oghenenyore.

ROAD TO 2023 - (the debt-smith) By Oletu Oghenenyore C.

ROAD TO 2023 - (the debt-smith) 

survivors 

must pay the debt money

borrowed to support terrorism

that killed their loved ones

while news correspondents 

barely noticed the contracts

and groups dragging politicians 

and civil servants

to do the right thing 

only now wave the flag in pursuit 

of their own financial interests

the debt mountain is mutating

to the tonne of trillion in white Benjamins

and unpayable as well

yet Sai Baba is addicted 

to borrow more from any finger

mostly from the Ants of Asia

to aid his debt to Niger

2023 & beyond 

as Baba chill off in Daura

survivors will chisel off

the debt mountain 

at any cost.

©® Nyore Note.

Oletu Oghenenyore

Oletu Oghenenyore C. (pen-name: Nyore Note) is a content creator, storyteller, aluminium fabricator, rebel-poet and activist whose content resonates with the everyday happening around him. He’s from Delta State but based in the Creek area of Southern Nigeria. His works have appeared in many anthologies and online journals like ArtingArena, Poemify, The Yellow House Library, Williwash, etc. He can be reached via Facebook, Twitter and Instagram @NyoreNote @Oletu Oghenenyore.

ROAD TO 2023 - (running helter skelter) By Oletu Oghenenyore C.

ROAD TO 2023 - (running helter skelter)

like a chick, i crack undisturbed eggs

eggs laid by corrupt tummies 

i read of elements so disturbing 

and unbecoming

our oil and the other unformed coins

generate plenty balloon of mischief money

banks laundering off-channel 

i saw a very dark side of the story

less political stability 

unhealthy business environment 

well-serviced foreign debts on friendly cruise

contracts are safe when the lion 

appear weak, needing oversea friendship

the cabals are preparing a seal

to cover their created devil ahead of 2023

so Obi may not crack more eggs

hence the endless meetings

©® Nyore Note.

Oletu Oghenenyore

Oletu Oghenenyore C. (pen-name: Nyore Note) is a content creator, storyteller, aluminium fabricator, rebel-poet and activist whose content resonates with the everyday happening around him. He’s from Delta State but based in the Creek area of Southern Nigeria. His works have appeared in many anthologies and online journals like ArtingArena, Poemify, The Yellow House Library, Williwash, etc. He can be reached via Facebook, Twitter and Instagram @NyoreNote @Oletu Oghenenyore.

WHY SCARS by Oletu Oghenenyore C.

WHY SCARS

By Oletu Oghenenyore C.

the past is a password 

a key, interpreting the future

it explain the present

a reminder, how we got here

scars, lessons

exploring how far our lives

have traveled.

©® Nyore Note.

26/August/2022

#NyoreNote

Oletu Oghenenyore

Oletu Oghenenyore C. (pen-name: Nyore Note) is a content creator, storyteller, aluminium fabricator, rebel-poet and activist whose content resonates with the everyday happening around him. He’s from Delta State but based in the Creek area of Southern Nigeria. His works have appeared in many anthologies and online journals like ArtingArena, Poemify, The Yellow House Library, Williwash, etc. He can be reached via Facebook, Twitter and Instagram @NyoreNote @Oletu Oghenenyore.

HUSTLER’S MOTIVATION by Oletu Oghenenyore C.

HUSTLER’S MOTIVATION

i'm a homeless not hopeless 

fear is for the brave, they thrive 

failing is a lesson cos coward lack courage

stars need darkness to survive

i’m living not lost

so many hours on the road

so many miles to go

you need courage to learn how to cry

i’m loving less not lifeless

without it, nothing is real

so many wine in the world

nothing intoxicate than serendipitous breakthrough

i’m down not sick

stalk to Jack's beanstalk

wondering when the feel of arriving will come

and success staring back at me

©® Nyore Note.

26/August/2022

#NyoreNote

Oletu Oghenenyore

Oletu Oghenenyore C. (pen-name: Nyore Note) is a content creator, storyteller, aluminium fabricator, rebel-poet and activist whose content resonates with the everyday happening around him. He’s from Delta State but based in the Creek area of Southern Nigeria. His works have appeared in many anthologies and online journals like ArtingArena, Poemify, The Yellow House Library, Williwash, etc. He can be reached via Facebook, Twitter and Instagram @NyoreNote @Oletu Oghenenyore.

LIVING BY SINKING by Oletu Oghenenyore C.

LIVING BY SINKING

when you got nothing

you got nothing to prove

you got nothing to lose

sinking to the bottom of the sea

like submarine, life take everything 

got nobody to share grief with

nobody to touch; nobody to hold 

but i walk tall like i've got everything 

when you get everything 

you've got many things to prove 

you've got many things to lose

worst hit of life at over one score plus ten

seen my World Trade Center crumble

and my missing Malaysian MH370 unsolved

night, i cry like a widow at her lover's grave 

but i spend the day like i've got everything 

looking pictures of ex-lovers on Facebook don't help

stick between finger is cancer foster home

and the bottle only cure grief for seconds 

being around this long is hope enough for sunshine 

so i live like everything's already mine.

©® Nyore Note.

26/August/2022

#NyoreNote

Oletu Oghenenyore

Oletu Oghenenyore C. (pen-name: Nyore Note) is a content creator, storyteller, aluminium fabricator, rebel-poet and activist whose content resonates with the everyday happening around him. He’s from Delta State but based in the Creek area of Southern Nigeria. His works have appeared in many anthologies and online journals like ArtingArena, Poemify, The Yellow House Library, Williwash, etc. He can be reached via Facebook, Twitter and Instagram @NyoreNote @Oletu Oghenenyore.

DEATH, THE END OF ALL THE HERE by Oletu Oghenenyore C.

DEATH, THE END OF ALL THE HERE

death 

is a wonderful 

pain killer —

sickness is gone 

worries are over

just like magic...

is God 

indeed 

not wise?

©® Nyore Note.

24/August/2022

#NyoreNote

Oletu Oghenenyore

Oletu Oghenenyore C. (pen-name: Nyore Note) is a content creator, storyteller, aluminium fabricator, rebel-poet and activist whose content resonates with the everyday happening around him. He’s from Delta State but based in the Creek area of Southern Nigeria. His works have appeared in many anthologies and online journals like ArtingArena, Poemify, The Yellow House Library, Williwash, etc. He can be reached via Facebook, Twitter and Instagram @NyoreNote @Oletu Oghenenyore.

AT LAST by Oletu Oghenenyore C.

AT LAST 

(for Tares Oburumu)

the turbulence 

couldn’t make a man of will say nay;

patience is a bitter pill

but to press the doorbell

we shine our teeth in the dark night.

our white teeth is the only light 

we’ve got in the creek.

the sky remain blue

yet Chelsea FC loss some point too

champs sometimes slow down

but class is permanent.

of his counselling and guide

it did pay off at the right time

ensample of great faith

inking with lots of pains

finally, the Lord prepare the banquet

in the presence of his enemies

©® Nyore Note.

23/August/2022

#NyoreNote

Oletu Oghenenyore

Oletu Oghenenyore C. (pen-name: Nyore Note) is a content creator, storyteller, aluminium fabricator, rebel-poet and activist whose content resonates with the everyday happening around him. He’s from Delta State but based in the Creek area of Southern Nigeria. His works have appeared in many anthologies and online journals like ArtingArena, Poemify, The Yellow House Library, Williwash, etc. He can be reached via Facebook, Twitter and Instagram @NyoreNote @Oletu Oghenenyore.

DIARY OF A BROKEN POET by Olėtu Oghėnėnyorė C.

DIARY OF A BROKEN POET

pieces of glass; old 

bottles at the sea, broken

street of notebooks

drinking and living every pages

drunk poets; phrases

here and there

leaving sunshine to seek the sun

miss train; slow trek 

to stardom; boom, air hostess 

seeking selfie

on the long run 

poetry and puzzle

born by the same parent

surviving migraines

blank brain traveling in coffee cab

and you say ‘poetry is everything’

you know you don’t mean it, you know

except you are known

write, still, just write

smile over scars

©® Nyore Note.

18/August/2022

#NyoreNote

Oletu Oghenenyore

Oletu Oghenenyore C. (pen-name: Nyore Note) is a content creator, storyteller, aluminium fabricator, rebel-poet and activist whose content resonates with the everyday happening around him. He’s from Delta State but based in the Creek area of Southern Nigeria. His works have appeared in many anthologies and online journals like ArtingArena, Poemify, The Yellow House Library, Williwash, etc. He can be reached via Facebook, Twitter and Instagram @NyoreNote @Oletu Oghenenyore.

SUICIDE by Oletu Oghenenyore C.

SUICIDE

They died before they die

Like coward plenty of times

Theirs is not sudden

They put up the signs

But we never did read

Nor reach out to any of them 

We didn’t care

Or thought they weren’t serious 

They cry out for help

Somehow, we didn’t hear

One romance the blade

And slit the arm

Red pigment coloured the arena

Another strap a rope to the neck

Like charger to a phone 

Kicked off the chair, suffocate, 

Worries fade, ending the pain

We criticize their live

When they were alive

Now they couldn’t keep their breath

We despise how be their death

©® Nyore Note.

17/August/2022

#NyoreNote

[please, reach out to everyone speaking with dark word. don't take their ‘i’m fine’ for honesty. i’ve been down that alley many times]

Oletu Oghenenyore

Oletu Oghenenyore C. (pen-name: Nyore Note) is a content creator, storyteller, aluminium fabricator, rebel-poet and activist whose content resonates with the everyday happening around him. He’s from Delta State but based in the Creek area of Southern Nigeria. His works have appeared in many anthologies and online journals like ArtingArena, Poemify, The Yellow House Library, Williwash, etc. He can be reached via Facebook, Twitter and Instagram @NyoreNote @Oletu Oghenenyore.

TRAITORS by Oletu Oghenenyore C.

TRAITORS

butcher. ladder. heaven.

taking it mentality 

minority suppressing majority

brotherhood fried

in the stew of betrayal 

©® Nyore Note.

15/August/2022

#NyoreNote

Oletu Oghenenyore

Oletu Oghenenyore C. (pen-name: Nyore Note) is a content creator, storyteller, aluminium fabricator, rebel-poet and activist whose content resonates with the everyday happening around him. He’s from Delta State but based in the Creek area of Southern Nigeria. His works have appeared in many anthologies and online journals like ArtingArena, Poemify, The Yellow House Library, Williwash, etc. He can be reached via Facebook, Twitter and Instagram @NyoreNote @Oletu Oghenenyore.

HOW TO READ A POEM by Oletu Oghenenyore C.

HOW TO READ A POEM

You read line by line, observing

The punctuation marks, all along.

Eyes on the theme, sipping

The message hidden

In the message.

Some are slow, some so fast.

Some are song, we call the ode.

Read it once. Get the 

Meaning. Read again.

Get the message.

Some are deep, not so clear.

Some you will ask questions 

To get the writer's mind

©® Nyore Note

17/August/2021

Oletu Oghenenyore

Oletu Oghenenyore C. (pen-name: Nyore Note) is a content creator, storyteller, aluminium fabricator, rebel-poet and activist whose content resonates with the everyday happening around him. He’s from Delta State but based in the Creek area of Southern Nigeria. His works have appeared in many anthologies and online journals like ArtingArena, Poemify, The Yellow House Library, Williwash, etc. He can be reached via Facebook, Twitter and Instagram @NyoreNote @Oletu Oghenenyore.

SIGNING UP FOR DELIVERANCE by Oletu Oghenenyore C.

SIGNING UP FOR DELIVERANCE

is it too late to call for help

or just surrender to fate?

searching for torchlight in high water

and the fang of hell scorching 

i always come to the party late

or so a lady say

cos i end up without a date

always.

©® Nyore Note.

11/August/2022

#NyoreNote

Oletu Oghenenyore

Oletu Oghenenyore C. (pen-name: Nyore Note) is a content creator, storyteller, aluminium fabricator, rebel-poet and activist whose content resonates with the everyday happening around him. He’s from Delta State but based in the Creek area of Southern Nigeria. His works have appeared in many anthologies and online journals like ArtingArena, Poemify, The Yellow House Library, Williwash, etc. He can be reached via Facebook, Twitter and Instagram @NyoreNote @Oletu Oghenenyore.