The Strange Voice

By Ola-Thomas Olufemi

The Strange Voice is a collection of poems on based on different themes, ranging from political, man inhumanity to man, commentary and philosophy, spiritual, fun and humor, to general poems. It is a poetry book that rendered poems in a strange voice diff erent from the usual. (Gungalo) Pam, a renowned poet and an adept reviewer on Fanstory.com, after reading many of the poems in this collection, wrote in a review, Your writings have such a strange and unique voice different from many of us; and that voice needed to be listened to. Th e author has carefully selected these poems that relate to everybody and his/her environment with a unique African voice, dealing with all happenstance of todays world, howbeit in strange tunes that needed to be heard. Surely,there is something, somewhere inside this book, that will appeal to you in strange manners.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris AU
• Release date: Oct 14, 2014
• ISBN: 9781499025583

Ola-Thomas Olufemi

Ola-Thomas Olufemi is an Evangelist. He is a great writer and a poet. He has evangelized the gospel through Telecast and radio presentations. His past published books include ‘100 Uncommon Prayer Points”, ‘Inspiration from the Past’ and a poetry book – ‘Divine Verses’. He is currently based in Bangkok, Thailand.

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The Strange Voice

Ola-Thomas Olufemi

Copyright © 2014 by Ola-Thomas Olufemi.

ISBN:      Softcover      978-1-4990-2561-3

                eBook           978-1-4990-2558-3

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Rev. date: 10/13/2014

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Contents

Comment and Philosophical Poems

Political Poems

Fun and Humor Poems

General Poems

Man’s Inhumanity to Man Poems

Spiritual Poems

Nature Poems

Inspirational Poems

Acknowledgement

I sincerely appreciate Dr. Jeff and Sharyn Stone for their valued time spent in reviewing and evaluating the poems in this collection. Mrs. Sharyn Stone (who I always refer to as my teacher) has been of immense assistance in fine tuning this book.

Also, my heart goes to all my fans and other friends on Fanstory.com for their helpful reviews of the poems.

Of worthy mention are Mr. Raymond U. Brown, Pastor Adebayo Gbadebo, Mr. Bartholomew Edet, Mr. Dapo Fatoye and a host of other friends for their kind assistance and encouragement.

Finally, I acknowledge the grace of His Majesty for the gift of writing.

Introduction

Poetry is a means of communication. A sure way to express budding thoughts and muses to the reading and listening masses. I have always found my voice of expression in poetry as presented in this book—THE STRANGE VOICE.

To make my voice more understandable, I choose to write mostly in free verse form which gives me unrestricted liberty to clearly purge out my inner muse without having to observe so many rules like rhymes and meters guiding other forms of poetry. This is what you are about to come across in this book and many other forms of poetry including rhyming and even some specific meters. Most poems in this collection are metaphorically enriched.

The author has carefully inputs some insightful comments as footnotes for some poems considered to be obscure or very eventful for easier comprehension. You will surely be happy with yourself having to read this collection titled ‘The Strange Voice’. You will also have the pleasure to read different poems based on eight amazing and interesting themes.

For comments and enquiries, contact the author:

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COMMENT AND PHILOSOPHICAL POEMS

A Bout of Anger

In a bout of anger

Mansions are brought down

Ignoring the consequences

In a bout of anger

Man opens wide his mouth

Spitting irrecoverable words

(Burning sputum)

In a bout of anger

Friends are hurt beyond mending

For an angry man shorts his eyes

In a bout of anger

Excessive adrenaline flows unabated

Short-circuiting the heart

(A lingering death)

In a bout of anger

Reasoning is misguided

Rating horses as ants

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This Sane World!

Brother squeezing breath

out of his brother’s throat,

with a blind man leading the way

and sighted masses following with praises.

This sane world where a

privileged dumb man dictates the tunes

as deaf masses chorusing with beats

leaving the few sages no option

save to join the dancing of an alluring