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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Wednesday 11 September 2024

New Yam

New Yam 

 

Death brings life

New, tender and green

Earth brown, immaculate white 

 

The priest heralds her coming

The town crier drums it

The farmer dances to the market

It's time to celebrate

 

Let loose the masquerades

Celestial visitors from yonder

Let the melody of the odó

Echo the birth of the new yam

Like the birth of a newborn

The drums are rolled out

 

The market is flooded

With news of its coming

The homestead salivates 

The streets jubilate

 

Vegetables will bleed today

The fattened cock will crow no more

The slumber of the pestle is over

For what is in the yam that the knife doesn't know

 

The noise of pounding

Will keep the neighbours awake

Iyán funfun báláwú is on the menu today

 

From: Echoes from the Savannah © Makinde Adebayo Adeniyi, 2024



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