Oracle

By Dayo Ibitayo Phillips

Few of the felt human complexities are surges that are hidden without the slightest propensity for discovery. Some are in retrospect, while some are envisioned, in a sance, or even devoted faith. I have discovered mine in poetry.
Some will find the content a replica of their thoughts as if drawn from within their inner wavelength, and some will find it controversial. I say it is poetry that reflects the dim past to the present and the fickle future.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse UK
• Release date: Aug 15, 2016
• ISBN: 9781504999038

Dayo Ibitayo Phillips

Born and raised in Nigeria. He Enjoys the company of his words and thoughts.

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Oracle

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Published by AuthorHouse 08/02/2016

ISBN: 978-1-5049-9904-5 (sc)

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Contents

Foreword

Preface

Ignored I

Beauty of the Flesh

Stigmata

Sinless

We Born Again

Arcane

Tears of Esu

Ignored II

Wasteland

Way to Hell

Iku

Owners of Sorrows

The Moon Gone to Harmony

Forsaken to Foreign Lands

This World Is a Passion

These Pregnant Women

Little Things

Ulila

Please Don’t Let Me Go to Waste

True Story

Welcome Back

A Bird in Hand Is Worth More than Wandering into the Bushes

I Close My Eyes

The End to the 10

Mournful Thoughts

The Prophesy

If …

Where Do Flying Birds Fly?

Advice from a Graveyard I

Recreant Love

Together Apart

Unfaithful

Forever My Love

Moritan

Obsessed

How We Are

Evergreen

Letter

Ribald

Civilized African Women

The Tragedy of Olafioye

At the Deathbed of My Father

Emperor Penguin

Matter of Time

The Sand

Sarcasm

Grown Orphan

The Destitute on My Street

Superstition

Haste Now … the Sun Shines

Pray for Me

In a Hurry

They Are Coming Again

Renaissance Africa

The Lamentation of an African God

The Great Exodus

Matters Arising

The Incoherent Arab

Holocaust in Between

Dark Continent

Assassination

Goodbye, My Heart

Abiku

Blessed

Rich Man and His Lazaruses

Advice from a Graveyard II

To the Government

Suspicious Yes

Crazy Father

Insuperable Death

MADIBA MY AFRICA

Casus belli

Abiku II

To my beloved father

Festus Adeyekun Arogbokun.

Good fathers don’t die.

Foreword

The stylistic tension of African poetics is an eloquent attestation to the milieu’s many maladies, demonstrated in the most acrid form with graphic imprints.

Oracle is therefore a vibrant canvass with an aesthetic ensemble that expresses the interplay between the surreal, the ideal, and the real. The poet creatively criss-crosses the steely slopes of religious metaphors, political paradoxes, and elegiac permutations to drum home the many failings of humanity reflected in its fragment.

The collection is a literary cornucopia that transcends the forebodings of humanity; it captures in pristine terms the impulses that define the depths of the soul. This cryptic work