The Newness of life

New is the year

New are the wares

New are the resolutions

Likewise the aspirations

New is the spirit

Strange to retreat

New is the vibrancy

A force of potency.

Life offers newness

To wear out oldness

Oldness that bores my heart

Newness that gladdens heart

Be merry, new is the life

It holds no place for strife.

The desire for change

Has no definite range

Time to change ways

Rays of hope

Help you cope.

~ Kolade Olanrewaju Freedom

I Pen My Heart For Her Day

I Pen My Heart For Her Day

Life will not allow you live it without having people to build the stairs for you to courageously climb. Growing up, I have had many reasons to appreciate the existence of people as catalysts to speed you up while aiming to fulfill destiny. Realistically, I have also greatly suffered psychologically due to the indifference and negligence received from people I least expect ( not even a family name to consider).

Out of the blue she came extending hands of love,support and comfort that first scared me not to death but to unbelief! Never knew love so real could be emitted from someone who I couldn't see off my phone screen.

Hope jerked back to live, faith was empowered, courage raged as she showered me with love and attention a mother would give to a child.

The Light Bearer(my poetry collection) is an offspring of the relationship I had with her. Believing in me, she tore away the leaves of impossibility from the tree of greatness; she ridiculed normality by encouraging me to type the poems to be published as a book on my mobile phone since I had no computer to work with. I became industrious, she became the industry as she transformed my phone poetry to an enviable manuscript.Gloriously, the dreams were hatched, The Light Bearer was published!

I cannot possibly recount all the good seeds she has sown in my fertile heart,but few years to come you will all see the delightful fruits.

Today is her day, and my pen is drunk with inspiration to honor her beyond what limit could limit. Catherine Mahoney is the angel whom I talk about...

Living is helping
Helping is living
Living is loving
Loving is living.

Flourish with no hitch
If I be a palm tree
Do not I have one
who shined and rained
just to have me attain a height
that retains greatness?

What significance has her birth?
Steal a look at me
And nod convincingly like an agama
Aren't I a ray of rays of her light
Happy, happy is this day truly
Happy is my soul
That eternally longs for hers
Happy is humanity
She has given posterity future
Let future come
You will know what I speak of.

A day comes when my gratefulness will arrest her kindness,her selflessness and her loveliness.

Happy Birthday, Catherine Mahoney..

Angels rejoice in heaven,
Lend them your voice!

~ Kolade Olanrewaju Freedom

Trance by Hülya N Yilmaz

TRANCE


Hülya N Yilmaz, in this soulful poetry collection of hers displays high level of intellectualism that will keep a reader digging incessantly in order to fully explore the richness of her eloquent expression.

As a reader, I had to connect my soul to her writings in order to extract the undiluted message Hulya has for the world. 

Written in three dominant languages; Tukish, German and English...Hulya achieves what many will term impossible as she unites and creates a unique blend with these three languages without a depreciation in the appreciation of her profound expressions.

I cannot help but further continue to address Hulya N. Yilmaz as a literary mother whom I need to associate myself with so as to graduate to the level of excellence where mediocrity is shamed.

My heart is endeared to this awesome collection (Trance), and my love for the writer is strengthened beyond breakage...I have no choice but to address her as "mein Schatz" ( You care to know the meaning of these strange words? Go get the book)

Book available via link: http://www.innerchildpress.com/hülya-n-yilmaz.php

~Kolade Olanrewaju Freedom, author of The Light Bearer.

Interested in knowing this awesome personality? Here is her biography:hülya yılmaz is an interrupted poet and writer since middle school, hidden in a career as a college professor in Humanities. She earned her Ph.D. from The University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in 1989. Her extensive teaching experience resulted in a respectable number of thankful students whose verbal and written words of appreciation she cherishes most of all in her profession. She authored a research book in German in 1992 on the literary reflections of cross-cultural influences between the West and the Islamic East – a groundbreaking study for the time. More recently – on April 24, 2012 to be precise, a scholarly anthology was published to which she contributed by invitation with a book chapter on a controversial novel by Orhan Pamuk, the 2006 recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature. In her creative writing, yılmaz concentrates on fictional autobiography, short story and poetry. Two of her poems were published in July, 2013 by Indies In Action in the international charity anthology Twist of Fate. Presently, she continues to teach full-time in her fields of specialty; is a self-appointed literary translator and a novice in free-lance writing.

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