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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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Saturday 15 March 2025

THE SUN WILL SHINE AGAIN

THE SUN WILL SHINE AGAIN

When fear comes visiting

Like a secret lover from the shadows,

My heart welcomes her looney tunes

To my desolate cathedral -

Familiar stranger,

In motley congregation.

My dreams scream like dirty wounds

On arduous thorny grounds;

Fright takes hold in feeble space,

Fear smiles in gruesome glee,

Echoes of doubt stifle

My wailing heart in grisly dread.

I turn to _Elédùmarè_ for guidance,

He sends _Ifá_ for comfort -

Whose corpus coaxes

in subtle motifs.

I hear the cock crow...

_Kùkùrúùku!_

It's a new dawn.

#TAP4 (one of my entries for a poetry contest organized by Naija Poets' Collectives)

Published in Echoes from the Savannah © Makinde Adebayo Adeniyi, 2024

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