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• adeyemidrey (65)in The Ink Well • 4 years ago

  The ink well poetry challenge / Thorn in the flesh

  Below is my entry to this week's poetry challenge. Link to the original post if you are wiling to join the contest Why is it taking forever? Why am I being stagnant? Why…

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• adeyemidrey (65)in The Ink Well • 4 years ago

  The ink well fiction challenge/Beauty to behold

  source Bola, THE BEAUTY, was so beautiful that every man wanted her hands in marriage. Those that were married couldn't keep their eyes off her as many of them were willing to…

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• adeyemidrey (65)in The Ink Well • 4 years ago

  After the darkness (Original Fiction)

  "Why do I have to keep living like this? why should I work like an elephant and eat like ants? Why is it that everything I lay my hand upon always turns out in jeopardy? Why…

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• adeyemidrey (65)in The Ink Well • 4 years ago

  The ink well poetry challenge /Unforgettable memories

  It never ceases to fade away. Years over years had passed, But it seemed like yesterday. As I tried to forget the past. Only to dine and wine in sorrow After you had…

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• adeyemidrey (65)in The Ink Well • 4 years ago

  Haunted house (fiction)

  source It all began after moving into my new house I rented mainly just to have some peace as a grown up man that I called myself. Yeah, that’s pretty cliché. Believe me, I…

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• adeyemidrey (65)in The Ink Well • 4 years ago

  The ink well poetry challenge/ the last time I saw you

  Just this yesterday, You were here all day, As we both went for date. Before I opened and closed my eyes, You were no where to be found. Though, it is yesterday, But now…

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• adeyemidrey (65)in The Ink Well • 4 years ago

  Expectation (poetry)

  source I wish I never ask; I thought it would be easier. The thought of becoming a man, Thought I could have all I ever dreamed. I forgot expectations breed no sleep.…

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• adeyemidrey (65)in OCD • 4 years ago

  Class activities despite lockdown

  Not that the lockdown in my nation is lifted totally but the government did ease it anyway. The market is fully opened as market men and women take their stand selling their…

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• adeyemidrey (65)in The Ink Well • 4 years ago

  Withered beauty

  Her true beauty leaves behind Apprehensions in all mind Of more sweetness than all art Or inventions can impart; source Long smooth tendril. On a rich humous soil…

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• adeyemidrey (65)in OCD • 4 years ago

  Lockdown; home alone.

  How today started isn't really bad. I had to wake up 4:00am to pump water because we have been out of water in our reservoir these days due to our borehole reacting to nature.…

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• adeyemidrey (65)in GEMS • 4 years ago

  The fear the religion Instilled in us.

  Today being Sunday. I ought to go to church, but the lockdown and the directive from the government that we should stay at home and safe have prevented us to gather in the church…

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• adeyemidrey (65)in #poetry • 4 years ago

  Stagnation ( poetry)

  Stagnation; enemy of progress, Energy weaken vessel. Low effort propeller. Potential energy, the ability at rest; On the same spot, refusal to move. Stagnancy; the word…

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• adeyemidrey (65)in The Ink Well • 4 years ago

  Fear (poetry)

  I want my life back, I want my life saved, In the midst of turbulence; Full of defect and obstruction. Something is holding me back I want my life back. source I am…

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• adeyemidrey (65)in The Ink Well • 4 years ago

  An ephemeral life (poetry)

  source There is a wonder, I behold everyday. None is born an old person, As the iroko tree at the center of the forest is once à seed seedling Every living thing that has a…

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• adeyemidrey (65)in The Ink Well • 4 years ago

  Daniel's call (shortstory)

  source My eyes dimmed open in the dead of the night; the excruciating pain from the ceaseless strokes I had received earlier from my Physics teacher, made it difficult for me…

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• adeyemidrey (65)in #poetry • 4 years ago

  I want answer (poetry)

  I look around, wanting answers but couldn't find one. I cry aloud looking for the answer but yet to find one, I wept seeking answer but could see one. am I blindfolded? I ask…

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• adeyemidrey (65)in #poetry • 4 years ago

  Loneliness (poetry)

  All those lonely days, That I tried to make a different. Every time I tried to make a positive impact. Every time tried to bring joy to people's heart. I tried to stand and…

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• adeyemidrey (65)in The Ink Well • 4 years ago

  Deceitfulness (poetry)

  Like a sweet candy, We lick lies with pleasure. And paint our tongues with its colours. And perpetuate evils with no measure. Many are disciples of deceit As they tell more…

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• adeyemidrey (65)in The Ink Well • 4 years ago

  When you are there! (Poetry)

  When you are lucky to be there. Remember the hands that take you there. Never be sure you'll be long there, For your post is no birthright. So do your best, When you are…

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• adeyemidrey (65)in OCD • 4 years ago

  Covid19: lockdown relaxation

  There is no gain saying the world has experience greatest turbulence of all time because of the pandemic that has claim more lives, render many jobless, lot of people dying of…

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