Rainbow in My Heart: Poems

By Basit Olatunji

The moon comes out like a dot and emboldens one to move into a universal light with periodic renewal. Basit Olatunji's evolution with this piece has a similar metamorphosis with the moon. Perhaps, the fact that both deal with the principles of space is one reason for both to follow the same process.

The colours of rainbow are said to be seven, but are they? Do we have to differentiate between blue and purple, orange and yellow? Yes, a combination of two gives birth to one and more and more. Thus, in a rainbow, colours are buried in other colours, giving birth to more colours. So the genre employed by Olatunji is the very best medium for the depth of messages carried in his rainbow heart. The tip of the tongue alone does not convey taste. It takes the depth of the palate to really savour something. This rainbow in the poet's heart has many colours: life, love, hope, and despair. Indeed, the colours are not limited to red colour of love as expressed in A Woman in Her Prime or My Ladylove Was Not So Tough or My Eternal Valentina; it also delves into deep relationship topics both positive and negative.

The poems in this work, Rainbow in My Heart, are words that have set the Lonely Mind of the poet free from the untamable storms within the walls of prison of thoughts. It is a pet with colours of rainbow as patches spotting its tiger like veracious messages all over. Rainbow in My Heart will relieve readers as it does the poet of some burden of thoughts.
Prince Ademola Oyedokun
Poet/legal practitioner

• Language: English
• Publisher: Partridge Publishing Africa
• Release date: Feb 12, 2015
• ISBN: 9781482803952

Basit Olatunji

Basit Olatunji is a Nigerian poet, literary critic and editor. He received a bachelor’s degree in English Education from Obafemi Awolowo University and a master’s degree in English Literature from the University of Ibadan. He currently teaches English and Literature-in-English at State Senior High School, Oyewole, Agege, Lagos. Olatunji has some of his poems published in poetry journals such as The Literary Yard, The New Asian Writing, Micropoetry and Ijagun Poetry Journal. He is on the editorial team of Ijagun Poetry Journal and believes poetry is a freer of the mind and a healer of the soul.

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CONTENTS

Dedication

Acknowledgements

Rainbow In My Heart

A Lonely Mind

If There Is No Poetry

A Woman In Her Prime

My Ladylove Was Not So Tough

if dreams were real

if dreams were real

My Eternal Valentina

i have encountered in books

woe-man

woe-man

The Things In Our Heart

Like A Moon In A Starless Night

The Day You Showed Me Your Love

For The New Year

In This Babylon

Fear

Puerile But Virile

On The Mountain

You & I

Praises

Reflections

Duality

Freedom

They Say

Season Of Death

Tragedy Tourism

I Remember You

Like Stars On Earth

I Have Once Been Hit

Splattering Gutter

Once Upon A Time

Go To The Mortuary

hear my story

Parting To Meet

The Vampires

Demoncrazy

Squealers

Tolotolo*

Groping For Sanity

About The Author

DEDICATION

To the Almighty

in whom I keep my stainless faith

To my mother

whose ceaseless prayers ease my ways

To my father

whose inspiring personality is worth imbibing

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

First of all, I thank the Almighty God, the Creator of all creators, the Greatest Author that bestows the gift of authoring upon whoever He so desires and the All-wise that gives wisdom to whoever pleases Him. I acknowledge my