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    Poetry Matters: One hundred poems from Africa, Europe and the UK
    Poetry Matters: One hundred poems from Africa, Europe and the UK
    Poetry Matters: One hundred poems from Africa, Europe and the UK
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    Poetry Matters: One hundred poems from Africa, Europe and the UK

    By OLUSOLA SOPHIA ANYANWU

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    Poetry Matters shows, through a variety of poems on topics ranging from relationships to faith, death, and life, that poetry matters a great deal in our world today. 

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOLUSOLA SOPHIA ANYANWU
    Release dateNov 29, 2024
    ISBN9781915398338
    Poetry Matters: One hundred poems from Africa, Europe and the UK
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    OLUSOLA SOPHIA ANYANWU

    Olusola Sophia Anyanwu is British Nigerian. She did all her schooling at Ibadan and studied Education in English at the University of Ife, Nigeria (now Obafemi Awolowo University, Ife). She served her National Youth Service Corps in Makurdi in Benue State, Nigeria, and taught English and Literature for 20 years in a federal school for girls in Port Harcourt. She relocated to the UK in 2003 and continued as an educationist in primary and secondary schools in the UK. She is the author of Stories for Younger Generations, The Confession, The Crown, Turning the Clock Hands Backwards and Their Journey. She currently has other unpublished manuscripts in the making. She is a devoted Christian, married to Emmanuel and blessed with many children and grandchildren. She lives in South East London with her family.

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      Poetry Matters - OLUSOLA SOPHIA ANYANWU

      Poetry Matters

      A creation of one hundred plus poems from Africa and the UK

      Olusola Sophia Anyanwu

      Jesus Inspired Publishing

      Copyright © 2023 Olusola Sophia Anyanwu

      The right of Olusola Sophia Anyanwu to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

      All rights reserved.

      No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.  

      Edited and designed by Liz Carter

      Contents

      Title Page

      Copyright

      Dirges, Elegies and Notes

      I SAW YOU

      TO MUMMY LIZZY

      CANCER THOUGHTS?

      UNLESS A SEED FALLS

      MUMMY LIZZY

      A PRAYER FOR YOU

      ELIZABETH ADEBAYO,

      WOMAN OF GOD

      FINAL EXIT

      IN GLORY

      QUEEN ELIZABETH II

      STORMS OF LIFE

      PERPLEXED

      GOOD NIGHT

      ON THAT DAY

      STILL WITH US

      19/09/2022 –

      QUEEN ELIZABETH II LAID TO REST

      DON’T CRY FOR ME

      REALITY DAWNS

      DEATH BED THOUGHTS

      THE VISIT

      Eco Poetry –

      Nature, War,

      Environment, Climate

      GHOSTS FROM UKRAINE

      CHANGE

      NIGERIA IS NOT FORGOTTEN

      I HAVE A DREAM FOR NIGERIA

      THAMESMEAD (an acrostic poem)

      A TRIBUTE TO MY MOTHERLAND

      INTERDEPENDENCE

      THE MENU TODAY

      GOD WITH ME IN THE FIRE (incident in Nigeria, March 2022)

      HUNTER AND MOUSE

      VICTIMS OF PERSECUTION

      PONDER

      COVID HISTORY

      THIS DAY

      MY LOCKDOWN in 2020

      SODOM

      GO BACK AND STAY PUT!

      VOLCANO BREAFAST

      THE OCEAN’S PLEA

      KNIFE KILLERS

      Faith –

      God and His creation,

      Bible inspirations,

      belief and encouragement

      THE KING’S DAUGHTER

      BLESSED BE YOUR NAME

      I PRAISE YOU

      FREEDOM IN CHRIST

      MY INVISIBLE FRIEND

      CARE YE NOT WE PERISH?

      PROCLAIMING THE GOOD NEWS!

      THE PEACE OF GOD

      CREATIVITY

      THE STEPS OF THE GOOD PERSON

      KEEP YOUR EYES UP!

      THE CLAY CAN TALK (Amos 3:7)

      SUNDAY SERVICE

      FROM THE CROSS

      HOLY SPIRIT

      HEAVEN

      HAVE FAITH

      WHY DIDN’T YOU ASK HIM

      MY TIME WITH YOU

      ALL LIFE IS A CANDLE

      INSPIRED BY JOB 9 ABOUT GOD

      PRAISE

      OUR GOD

      DEVIL IN MY CUP OF TEA

      HAIKU PRAYER

      HAIKU PRAISE

      HAIKU GRATITUDE

      SORTED (inspired from Revelation)

      JOSEPH’S DREAM

      GOD’S WINTER

      ABRAHAM

      YAHWEH

      BREATHE IN MY DIRECTION

      A GOOD SEED

      ADVENT

      CHRISTIANITY IS NOT EASY

      Humanity –

      people,

      their lives

      and experiences

      LAND FLOWING WITH MILK

      AND HONEY

      THE WIND

      IT’S NOT OVER

      CHINWE

      AGE

      PAPER

      GREY HAIR

      MUSIC

      WORK DONE

      LAST DAY 29/07/2022

      FRANCIS, OUR FIRSTBORN

      LIFE CAN BE TOO SHORT

      WILL YOU SAVE THEM?

      BEING GOD FOR A SECOND

      FOR A CHANGE

      TIME

      TURN BY TURN

      HOW LONG

      AUGUSTUS, OUR SECOND BORN

      SILENCE

      LOVE

      CHIDOZIE, OUR THIRD BORN

      LIFE ON THE OUTSIDE (inspired by Isaiah 4:6)

      CHINOMSO, MY SIXTH GRAND

      CHIMA, MY THIRD GRAND

      THE COUPLE

      THE MYSTERY OF TWO IN ONE

      ECO FRIENDLY

      CHIAMAKA, OUR FOURTH BORN

      DEATH

      THE FALL OF KING DAVID (inspired from Isaiah 12:2a)

      LIFE

      CHIASOKA, OUR FIFTH BORN

      About the Author

      Her Works

      Dedicated to the memory of my beloved sister, Elizabeth Inyangete Adebayo

      (January 1956 – May 2022)

      "The grass withers, the flower fades,

      but the Word of our God stands forever."

      Isaiah 40:8, NASB

      Dirges, Elegies and Notes

      ◆◆◆

      I SAW YOU

      ◆◆◆

      I saw you, a strong, sturdy stem,

      Raising your branches and leaves

      High in praise

      Sure of more tomorrows

      The cankerworm came,

      Weakening the stem’s strength

      Your leaves aged prematurely—

      Gradually plucked off in turns

      Branches dried to twigs

      Roots made redundant

      Abandoned their duties

      The sunlight brings no warmth,

      The rain brings no refreshing

      The wind brings no music

      This is not winter’s sleep

      Tomorrow does not worry you

      You return to Earth—

      Your maker’s Eden

      TO MUMMY LIZZY

      ◆◆◆

      My darling Elizabeth Inyang Adebayo went home to Heaven on Saturday night, May 23, 2022. We were shocked and devastated by the gaping hole her life and memory will leave in our family, fellowship, and friends. However, we are eternally grateful that her end was peaceful – free of pain by God’s mercy and a miracle – considering she was a cancer patient. We are also eternally grateful that she is now in the presence of our Saviour, our Lord Jesus Christ, whom she deeply loved, truly served, and loyally worshipped.

      Mummy Lizzy (as I fondly called her) lived a full 66 years and four extra months. She overflowed with intelligence, hospitality, and motherhood, and was a friend to the fellowship of believers of the most high God. ‘Yeshua’ was always the emblem on her phone and social media. She began work as a brilliant scientist in 1982 and then became a gifted lawyer in 2000. She retired in 2011 when first diagnosed with cancer, which was successfully treated. She then devotedly served as a social carer till February 2022. Until her end, she was a creative writer of prayers, a great cook, a loving mother, a devoted wife, a loving grandmother, and so much more – as you will read and agree with me in the poems, excerpts and tributes to her blessed memory.

      Despite the depth of her personality and her cheerful demeanour, she could be an introvert, preferring to keep things to herself and sharing with the Lord only. However, she had a very great sense of humour and kept a smile perpetually on her face. If she was not smiling, she was in deep rapport with her Yeshua.

      Her working life was impressive. Apart from giving counsel and advice to people on a government level, she ministered to a number of people spiritually and had great impact on them. For example, her being a good and humble wife to my brother served as an example to the younger wives in the Brethren fellowship. The virtues of marriage and the proverbial wife of Proverbs 36 was her model. The number of people I saw lovingly showering devotions of prayers and gifts upon her and the family in the last weeks of life is a testimony.

      I loved her way of creating unique nicknames

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