‘Thoughts’
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The five headings 'thoughts' is divided into includes Apartheid, Reflections, Inspirations,Emotions, General.
The poems written under each of the headings are those the writer have arranged to sooth the relationship. As you read and study the poetry book in your relationships and within your relationships it is the hope of each poem that it would soothe your feelings as the poems are truly deep and deep seated in characters and words.
There are eighty five different poems in the book and each is designated for an assignment which the reader is meant to read, study and understand its purpose or solve if it appears to be controversial through most suitable interventions like debates.
Shola Babatunde
Shola Babatunde is an intelligent and creative lady of diverse talent of which is poetry writing. She has written deep seated and inspired poems for the last 20years as an amatuer before the publication of her first book Thoughts in 2013. She is a qualified social worker and teacher by profession with Diploma in Social Work (Higher Education) and Bachelor of Education (with Adult Education and Religious Studies).She is married with children and passionate about her faith,children and bringing smile and change to the life of an individual at a time.
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‘Thoughts’ - Shola Babatunde
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© 2013 by Shola Babatunde. All rights reserved.
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Published by AuthorHouse 06/18/2013
ISBN: 978-1-4817-9729-0 (sc)
ISBN: 978-1-4817-9730-6 (e)
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CONTENTS
P R E F A C E
INTRODUCTION
P O E M S
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
APARTHEID
Apartheid
Land And Freedom
Free At Last
Pleadings That Turned Sour
REFLECTIONS
F.G.C. Ido-Ani
Ivcu History
Education
Beauty
Happy Birthday
Truth
Decision Making
Life
Promise
The Mind
Peace Of Mind
Hunger
‘You Are Dirty’
D—R—E—A—M
Adult Education
The Family
A Mother
Success
A Designer
INSPIRATIONS
Good Mental Health
H E L L
The Lord
Inspirations
The Holy Spirit
A Devoted One
Blindness
A Story To The Most High
Easter
Adoration To Him
Islam & Christianity (Who Is The Confused Man)
The Rock Of My Refuge
Indescribable God
The Devil
He Abides Forever
Perfunctory Prayer
Believe In Yourself
The Mercy Of God
Beautiful
The Holy Spirit
Thank God For Rccg Tottenham Branch
Zoe: Life Of God
Open Your Eyes
EMOTIONS
L O V E!
Love—A Touch
Hatred
Fear
A Naughty Girl
A Night To Grow
I Love Him
Patience
L-O-V-E
I Want A Man
A Child In Pain
What Is Love?
Hugs
GENERAL
Royal Wedding 29/04/2011
The Circle
Money
Sanity
The Ray Sisters
The Sun
Time Waits Not
The Mouth
The Body
Looks
Family
Gossip
Voices
A Reversed Coup
The Jaycees
Three Jolly Friends
Political Hassles
Sickness; Man Don Suffer
The Wave Of Time
Set A Goal
Virtuous ‘She’
Hospital & Prison Visitation Group
Heights
Barak Obama: Who Is This Man?
Vote Obama
Art
WORDS OF WISDOM
P R E F A C E
What do you think poems are for?
A jumbled clustered words junked aside?
No.
They are for efficient and effective communication
They are bridge that leads to a destination
They are that air that carries information
They are streams of water.
Do you know a journalist?
They sing same tune and language.
*Poem — A metrical composition especially of elevated tone.
*Poetry — The poet’s art or work, elevated expression of elevated thought or feeling especially in metrical form.
*Poet(n) — Maker of poem of (especially elevated or imaginative verse).
*Meaning taken from the dictionary.
INTRODUCTION
This poem book is a compilation of different hearing, tuning and seeing of a side or the other. They are feelings, emotions and thoughts of the writer which have been put down in a thoughtful, systematic poetic way and form to help readers to visualise, think into the past, present and future. A poet should be able to break down words, phrases, sentences, verses, stanzas, even poems into its simplest utmost letters to know the meaning, act on it and bring the best out of it.
This book is divided into five different parts, namely: Apartheid, Reflections, Inspirations, Emotions and the