Olawale Famodun is a graduate of geology, University of Ibadan. His greatest passion is writing, reading and the performance arts. As a result of this he has to his credit a published book of poetry Poems of Redemption (Creative Talents Unleashed,2015) , which recently won him nomination for Poetry Writer of the Year in Nigerian Writers’ Award. He also belongs to several literary associations and groups on the internet to which he makes regular contributions as well as encouraging aspiring artists. He is featured among international artists in the anthology FEELINGS International, A book of Artists (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform,2015) He is currently working on other genres of literature including short story/flash fiction, drama and the novel. He lives with his wife and son in Lagos.
Whether you fold the weather in your arms
Or make the honeyed singing brooks to twinge;
Whether you disregard your dashing charms
Or your beauty, with insults, you did swinge;
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Your love is liquor, in it I am drunk,
I stagger up and down, not satisfied,
I take more, and my soul is amplified,
As I recount I’ve lost being in a funk,
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