Tasted Words

By Titilayo Falade

If words are nothing but just words, why do they have so much power? Words spoken spitefully create deep wounds, while gracious words encourage, build up, and heal hurts. Spoken words are unseen but powerful. By revealing that words are like pedestrians, Titilayo demonstrates how words walk in our lives. Why do words have so much impact? How are our lives shaped by the words we speak and receive?

In Tasted Words, Titilayo reflects on the power of words, which may be spoken, written, or captured in pictures that speak more than a thousand words. Tasted Words is a collection of short stories and poetry with reminders, messages of love, and encouragement. In Tasted Words, Titilayo uses cues that are helpful reminders to challenge you to stop and think about your words, thoughts, and actions. This inspiring collection will challenge you to live purposefully, consider wisely, and interact graciously. Tasted Words also comprises poems that have arisen as a result of Bible study, life musings, and social crises. Titilayo intends to use part of the proceeds from Tasted Words in works of charity to the support victims of social crises.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Jul 8, 2015
• ISBN: 9781490882093

Titilayo Falade

Titilayo D.O. Falade is a wife, mother, poet, photography enthusiast, and PhD research student at the University of Queensland. Some of her poems, including “Nature,” “The Stranger,” “Blindness,” and “Numbness,” have been published in poetry collections. She volunteers with nonprofit groups involved in works of charity to society’s vulnerable. She lives in Ibadan, Nigeria with her husband Kolawole O. Falade, and their son Toluwanimi.

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ISBN: 978-1-4908-8208-6 (sc)

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2015908638

WestBow Press rev. date: 06/22/2015

Contents

Acknowledgements

Dedication

Prologue

Melody Song

The Pages of My Life

The Angel of Tomorrow

Times

The Practice of Life

Disabled

A Part of This Race

Keep Hope Alive, Hope Keeps Alive

When Tomorrow Comes

Dietes grandiflora

Merimnao

Today is the Treasure

Truth Treasure—Seek and Find

Words

Masterpiece of Wounds

They Said, but They Found

The Poor and the Rich

Tasted Words

Rainbow

No Casting of Judgmental Stones

Do I See Faith in My Ways?

I’m Still Precious Silver

Why Not Say …?

Human Creation, C’est magnifique

I Will Turn Away

Can You Spell It?

Sam and the Jam

The Heart

Your Daily Routine

God’s Goodness

Why Do I Think That Way?

I Don’t Want to Malnourish My Spirit

Ugali Masara of Agbado

Smitten Breast

Daughter of Zion

It is Light that Chases Darkness Away

Why Do the Elders Sleep?

The Elders are Still Sleeping

Bring Back Our Ladies and Young Boys

I Cannot Tell, I Must Now Tell

Bring Back Our Girls, Bring Back Our Boys

Girls and Boys are Stolen

Stop This Political Rant-a-Chant

Let Life Live

Terror Now Fears

When the Elders Respond

Destiny

When We Pray

Epilogue

Tasted Words

Acknowledgements

I wish to thank you for picking up this book to read. Your desire to read this book is a gift to me. I hope the words within inspire you to be your best in thought, speech, and deeds.

I am grateful to the Team at WestBow Press for their editorial service and for guiding me through this book project.

I wish to thank my parents Felicia and Edwin Iyore for their love, nurture and training through my life’s journey. Thank you for pouring of yourselves into my life. I am also thankful to my brothers Omokhodion and Orukpe Iyore for remaining my true friends from childhood till adulthood. I am very thankful to have wonderful brothers and friends as you.

I wish to thank my husband Kolawole Falade, for his love and consistent support that keeps challenging me to be the best that I can be. Thank you for providing an environment for me to flourish. I must also thank my son Toluwanimi for his love for me, and constant prayers for God to be with Mommy and help her. I know God heard your prayers because I find strength to go through each day.

Most of all, I am grateful to God the Father of my Lord Jesus Christ, for His love and without whom I could never have life, let alone write this book. I am thankful for His forgiveness, love, kindness, and powerful words to me. What better words to taste than Your words; they are sweeter than honey and the honeycomb.

Dedication

For my parents, Felicia Adunola and Edwin Omotuenmhen Iyore