Makinde Adeniyi

Biography: Makinde Adebayo Adeniyi is a Prince, Physician (by training), Poet, and Author. He has published 2 poetry anthologies titled "Night Marauders and Other Poems," published by Carrot Publishers in 2022, and "Echoes from the Savannah," published by Amazon in 2024. He is currently working on another poetry anthology. He writes poems about social issues, culture, nature, love, and medicine. Some of his poems are Afrocentric in nature with a tilt towards the Yoruba culture and tradition.

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Tuesday 2 September 2025

Echoes of Silence

Echoes of Silence

Makinde Adebayo Adeniyi

 

Curled up in bed

Caged in by the cold

Deep in reflection

Under the duvet of dread

The harmattan breeze

Whispers sombre notes

Of forlorn fears

 

In the slammer of my thoughts

The sun streaks in betwixt the drapes

The heat takes the garments off me

Handing fan to my guest

 

Silence settles

Threatening to drown me

In this darkness

The truth slaps hard

 

Even the wise cannot detect

The gestation of a snail in its shell

A little wisdom

A little stupidity

Safeguards survival

 

The cosmos, covered in crepuscule.

 

Culled from "Echoes from the Savannah" © Makinde Adebayo Adeniyi, 2024.

 



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