Four Haikus

By Ogedengbe Tolulope Impact

Agodi garden
sipping clouds
from my coffee

By the creeks of the Niger
father’s gravestone . . .
just before the sea

Oduduwa’s land . . .
the footprint of Oranmiyan
stands high

Osun river . . .
the goddess’s teeth
on white bricks

BIO:
Ogedengbe Tolulope Impact is a multiple award winning Nigerian poet. His poems “Who I am” and “How we spend our nights in Covid times and The Night after the civil war ended” were shortlisted respectively for 2020 African Writers award and June and December editions of Collins Elesiro literary prize. Tolulope’s works have been published and are forthcoming in Agape review, Pangolin review, Amandasteelwriter, Words Rhymes and Rhythms, Wales haiku journal, Glass poetry press, Westchester review, Rising Phoenix, Wax poetry and art magazine, Porridge magazine, Subsaharan magazine and elsewhere.
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