Folorunsho Ahmed A.

Unbroken Pen

You can ask a Poet

That marries the night

With a price of coffee,

What journals’ nose mask

Looks like, at his post-box

Are his words really contagious?

Like a virus

Not to be spread in market

Of anthologies and issues calls

Or the chambers of editors

Are just sick of his erring words;

Injected in his craft

But rendering the theme lifeless

You may choose sack my

Art at work

Yet again, another broken heart,

But the legs of the pen

Remains unbroken

– It shall continue

To dance to Poetry.

Author Bio

Folorunsho Ahmed Adekunle is a Nigerian Poet, Essayist and Performance Poet who studied Political Science in Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko. Ondo-State. His poem ‘Drummer of Our Crafts’ featured in the Decades of Nine Hills and Thrills (An anthology in honor Prof.Wole Soyinka, Noble Peace Laureate); ‘Avers is Your Friend’ in AAUASU Magazine ’23; ‘Podium of Anxiety’ in Outside The Box Poetry Magazine, and many other Literary magazines in Nigeria and beyond. (Shortlisted in the US Archaivarian 2023 Essay Writing Competition). One of his popular social justice Poetry is ‘Messenger of our Plights’, written as resistance against the Twitter Ban in Nigeria in 2021. His Social work activities focused on Tertiary and Vocational Education Advocacy, Oratory and Writing skill development, Mental Health Campaign and Political participation.

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