OASIS
- Post 02 April 2006
- Last Updated on 23 April 2008
- By Afro-Poet
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 Folasayo Dele-Ogunrinde intimately captures the colors, complexities and contradictory sounds of love and life in her poetry. Her words flow like unhindered waters, stirring the heart...feathers fiddling in secret spaces. The author of The Woman With A Past, a 1989 British Council Award winning play, She put aside her MA degree in Animal Nutrition to act, model, write, make art and create visual stories as a fimmaker. She is a singer, a song and the author of Conversations With The Soul At 3.00am, a first collection of love poems currently available online at www.folasayo.com. |
my soul was a barren desert filled with mirages of love
never reaching, always searching...unfulfilled promises...
till you came, spreading like dew laden foliage
quenching an age old thirst...
...becoming my oasis.
~ folasayo
UNTITLED
Should this prologue have been an epilogue to a story never told?
Should the paparazzi have gone home long before the ink that was never used had dried?
Or should they continue to camp at my place or yours in the event there is some break in the story…a sudden inspiration that jerks the nerves at the very root of medusa's hair. Or maybe I should file this away now quietly among those forgotten memoirs of unknowns who yearned to write their own stories of love... True, yet unbelievable saga of mere mortals who walk among us.
Should I burn it?, save the ashes in an urn in my creative sanctuary that I may turn to in my moments. Find poetry in an untold love story. No, an unfinished one. Or more appropriately, an indefinable one: It just morphs along uncertain terrain. Maybe this is the road of love less traveled. Maybe it has some edifying gems along the way, or pearls of wisdom to offer. Does the non-story just end here or is there an alternate ending?.
~ folasayo
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I wan read these article, he no gree open, Admin if na play make u stop am o!!! april fool don pass!!!!! i don try 3 times already--- i go sue somebody oooo
Folasayo, if you no gree publish that story, i will send my team to break into the vault oo
I wan see am line by line, precept by precept----enough of this teasers 
If one more person has to complain...na real way for you Afro Poet......I wan read Oasis ..Iw wan read African woman...and dis one u post.......but always saying u are not auhtorized...u mus first log in..I don't understand........helep me out hia!!!!!!!!
Emj; Serious NaijaBabe,
Thanks for checking out my poems...the links for some reason are not authorized from the homepage....must be a glitch. I've contacted Admin, since they posted the poems on my behalf....however, they can be opened when you click on "inkpot", the art category listed on the left side panel on the homepage. Lata!! folasayo
Admin,
I tried again and here's the result when I click on the link - 'You are not authorized to view this resource. You need to login' http://www.nigeriavillagesquare.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2772 How am I able to post if I am not logged in?
I don read am...Nobiorah..try again. try it from the menu of the left handside.........leads you to Inkpot as Afro-Poet said
Admin..can we have a section where villagers can express their creative sides..no be only Afro-Poet dey write poetry...me sef I be Africo-Poet...Whatchya say?
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