IN THREE SENTENCES

In three sentences, 

my father defined faith:

   The substance of dreams

   The reality of nothingness

   The propeller of hope

I divide faith like the aboki slices agege in my area:

I slice into three parts –

    One for my body

    The other, soul

    & the last – spirit

My body dreams

My soul drowns in nothing

Yet my spirit is a drunkard and hope is its favorite alcohol.

JOEL OYELEKE: Word Commander (V)

A member of the Hilltop Creative Arts Foundation from Osun State Joel is a Nigerian poet, literary enthusiast, God-addict and Literature in English undergraduate of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun state. 

Author of THE THEM IN ME (Direwords 2022), Winner of the Arting Arena Poetry Prize (2022), Coordinator of The Society of Young Nigerian Writers (OAU chapter), Publishing Officer II of the Association of Nigerian Authors (OAU chapter) and Curator of Poetry Village, OAU. 

He is published in IHRAF, The Nigerian Review, Poemify, Shuzia Magazine, Yellow house Library, Crusaders Magazine, The Sailors Review, Clean Ink Anthology (Ohio, 2022), iTell Stories and Everything Beautiful Blog, Pidgin Poetry Magazine, Panorama Magazine, Outlook India, and elsewhere. He currently reads and edits poetry for Arting Arena Magazine. When he is not writing, he is reading, teaching, playing football and dreaming of vacation in Michigan. 

He is active on Facebook @ Joel Oyeleke.