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One-eyed king

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Okiroro Vs Goliath 😀 In this age of men omnipotent in their own sight yet as afraid as their ancestors were, I was given life at soils south of the deadly Sahara desert in a kingdom famed for fishermen, farmers and fair damsels. In the years when the traditional monarchs still had all power in their domain amid encroachment of the British, my father was the Ovie of Uzei Kingdom which made him as traditions demand double as the chief priest to the water spirit Eni famed for its ability to detect which person is infected or free from witchcraft; thus my father was the absolute monarch of that great Uzei Kingdom founded upon the soils of fornication. My father had one wife, the love of his youthful age whom he loved till his love for her withered as the beauty of her youth withered away. With heart no more pleased by the woman of his youth, my father’s eyes began to grow lusty for my mother’s youthful charm and in a matter of few eyelid-blinks, he took my youthful mother as h...

Horsemen post 1

CANTO I Atop this olden dust horsemen ride, Under the sunshine, beneath raindrops, Underneath the snowflakes, below hail, Their breaths abide warm, their lungs exhale, Loving and abhorring their hearts bring- As life, the-endless-fowl beats wings on, Hours of darkness drop on the aged dust Like twigs befallen by raven’s wing- Many raven skies quit like water Evaporates, men act epic songs Yet love though soft, ‘tis a vast matter- Be it love that goes down from the-blue And feeds dampness to seedlings in leas; Be it love that nailed the-Christ to tree; Or love flung from saintly chests like pants, Heading towards the crown of Heaven; Or lusty love that flows like river, With only twain shores, hearts of lovers; Be it the love apt to burn if bits Of a mother’s soul is in her arms, Slurping her nipple’s milk into the Tender embrace of a toothless mouth- In this ever playing earthly ride, Sons-of-Eve are dim casts taking sides In a grand conflict that was ere t...