Oke’s Musings: Poetry, People and Places

Tag: Uyo

  • Creative Baking: Senocreme

    Maya Angelou opined that one can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. Join me to welcome my guest, Seno Ukpe, a friend from Akwa Ibom state and CEO Senocreme. Meeting Seno, some years back in University of Uyo, I didn’t observe she had an enterprising mindset. Smart and taciturn, I…

  • Akwa Ibom

    There is a land full of life Bubbling with greens and love Swooshing trees thro the forests To the foaming sea with its broth A land filled with hills and valleys With streams and the streams There are blue clouds And the birds surf the wind Uyo cares, loves and welcomes She is beautiful like…

  • Uyo Night Rain

    Thundering, Heavens clap In might and strange call We tremble, we watch The crystal drops fall Freezing winds flush about The rain falls, uncaring The Heavens light, thunders nephew Show his face, now and then Sending chills down our spines Everyone clasping their cheeks Some minding not the dripping saliva All waiting and watching With…

  • Let Them Hear

    Let them hear… From the hills of Isuikwuato My sleepy hilly land From my new’est bride Uyo To the ancient muds of Enugu From Makurdi’s Benue river beach To those peaked crags of Jos Let them hear… As I dream of the undying Lights of the Lagoon city The snake lanes of Abuja Cockcroachin’ thru…