Awakening and Becoming

By Adeola Temitope Aina

Awakening and Becoming is a collection of poems written with a feminine perspective; the poems resonate deeply with women at different stages of life, speaking to our inner experiences and interactions with one another. Finding happiness, finding what works, finding passion, and still being true to who we are.
It is a poetic journey built by words that evoke different feelings and make you sigh, question, laugh, introspect yet inspire and motivate you to make those dreams and your true self shine through.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Adeola Temitope Aina
• Release date: Mar 15, 2022
• ISBN: 9781005261078

Adeola Temitope Aina

Adeola Temitope Aina is a graduate of the University of Lagos, Nigeria where she holds a first degree in Accounting and a Master’s degree in Business Administration. She is an associate member of the Certified Public Accountants Association, UK. She holds a diploma in Management Accounting from the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, UK. She is also an associate of the Chartered Institute of Taxation, Nigeria.Apart from two rewarding decades in Tax and Finance, Adeola is a Certified Life Coach from Achology, The Academy of Modern Applied Psychology, UK and The Priority Academy, UK. She is a Mindfulness coach and has taken courses in Leadership and Personal Development.She loves reading, writing poetry and short stories.

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Awakening and Becoming.

Poems

by

Adéọlá Tèmítọpẹ́ Àiná

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EPIGRAPH

Wear your crown

Crown of honour

Crown of acclaim

Do not bury your head in shame!

What does your name mean?

Accolades and praise

One to credit and celebrate

A name is never a mistake

Even when you feel it was a charade.

Resplendent aura of glory

Something with a story.

In the words and poetry

Incarnations of song and prose

Lives a spirit who senses intuitively

That words have power

To change the narrative

The longing that anchors the fulfilling.

Wear your crown gracefully

Give thanks graciously

For what the High Ones have bestowed

Upon your life would unfold

And in the chords of the third name

Determination Strength and

Resoluteness resonates

The collection of letters

Are corals of words

Beautifully spun to inspire and awaken the reader.

Like the ancient verse alludes:

Be resolute

Strong willed

Live in Abundance

Distinction

Grace

Honour

Be different

You wear your crown and your corals of words.

With the greatest enthusiasm

Decked in words strung together to inspire

Beautifully crafted in life’s fire

Everyone is gifted

Everyone blessed

With their own corals and threads.

DEDICATION

To the Giver of Gifts

Immense Gratitude

Tèmítọ́pẹ́

(So much to be grateful for)

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

I am grateful for friends and family who show me love and make channeling my gift easy.

Poets are born not made still, one needs space and peace of mind to write.

Thank you for the space,

The peace of mind that loving relationships bring,

Those moments of inspiration at dawn, during the day and night time.

For understanding when I veer off into my moods. Well, it is my Muse calling and I must listen. Amusing but true.

For giving room to the quirkiness and joie de vivre that accompany poetry.

For the energy that matches my enthusiasm.

Allowing me to truly be Me.

Thank you to Anu Amusan,