This week with Ronovan on his Decima Challenge
On the wings of the wind take flight
The one I love, together ride
Taking in scenes with so much pride
All that gives me pure delight
Saved me from unknown midnight blight
Moving made easy, love’s busy!
“Keep still or you’ll get too dizzy”
You show off and make memories…
adding glow to our lives’ stories
A complete ride, nothing risky!
@imanikel 21082020 Frances Kelvin Otung
You’ve moved on like ‘centuries’ ago
making moments lose its’ glow…
Yet, I still see and reminisce
your moves and several instances
where your words lighted and remained
your deeds impacted and sustained,
leaving behind reminders that reek of you!
There should be a point I let go
and allow the currents to flow
taking with it bits and pieces past
so the new will find ground to breed fast,
creating new experiences with a tinge of old?
Nah! I’d rather grow learning, than put my life on a hold.
Leaving behind reminders that reek of you!
It is what it is,
Be silent in there please!
It is what it is
You’ve lost your ability to tease
It is what it is
With the past, I’ve made my peace.
@imanikel 21:08:2020 Frances Kelvin Otung
I know you’ll say it’s law, obey. Harken, no need to delay. But this ain’t me, I’m above the law!
You put stop signs 🚫 in place. Try to turn love to hate. This ain’t me😲 I love too much to have distaste.
With words you explain away affection, calling no-hug a way to prevention. This ain’t me, I’m a hugger🤗, not a leaver. 🚶
I cleave, I don’t leave when it’s hot.
I stay, not as a “been there before”
I stand sure in a world on tours.
I lean on your support for sure!
Don’t ask me to be someone else. Finding my replacement may take a while or never have placement.
Don’t teach me ‘values’ that create vacuums or force me to choose between faith and accepting fate!
Leave me unique, untainted. Leave me free, untamed. Leave me inflamed. Or you’ll have a me that ain’t me.
@imanikel 18082020 Frances Kelvin Otung
One quiet Saturday evening a meeting convened
In attendance were my Future and Present being
The Past wouldn’t be put aside, came along
Thinking with other two, is where I belong!
Not wanting to be delayed, Future asked…
“Where will you be years from now in certain tasks?”
With patterns and paths I follow,
with strategies and plans so shallow…
“Not far, I fear”, I reckoned
“Come, let’s talk”, she beckoned.
It’s not about another’s pace
Everyone runs their own race
Neither is it about undirected haste
You’d go far if in His sufficient grace.
Past listened and nodded with concerned gaze.
“There’s no part for me to play in this place,
off I go to remain quiet in history
Till the day comes for her to tell our story”.
I had a meeting with Future…
I rose, ready for adventure!
@imanikel 13082020 Frances Kelvin Otung
How do I resist the word, stay?
Turn back on a call to remain,
I weighed it, there seems to be gain
But will it suffice my day’s pay?
Surely, there’s more to life, today
Digging, I searched beyond the seen
Moved fast across places I’ve been!
It’s not just the word, but desire
That keeps me burning this fire!
…and fruits of obedience glean
As if he senses my weariness in maintaining my routine, Ronovan says STAY, that’s the topic for this week’s Decima Challenge
@imanikel 12082020 Frances Kelvin Otung
I’m not sure how many of us have seen the “calm down” video online that went viral. It’s about a little boy who probably disobeyed his mum and she threatened to punish him. What we saw was a weeping boy negotiating his case with his mum and unlike most motivational speakers today, his emotions were real, he wasn’t negotiating from a “I-heard-it-somewhere” point of view, but from an experiential one.
In my words, ‘Mum, I know you are upset about my bad behaviour. I admit I’ve done this severally and gotten away with it because it’s you nah (in Nigerian pidgin we’d say, ‘nah we we’). But I also know that if you relax, you won’t want to punish me, after all, I’m your loving son. Have you forgotten that you love me? That’s why you pardoned me the previous ones.”
In my words, Mum goes, ‘That’s why I need to carry out the punishment this time because you know my weakness of love towards you and you have been using it as an escape. Not anymore.’
‘I can see this first skill didn’t work, mum. How about you relax on the chair, not in the usual style, try out my method (and he demonstrates what he means, all the while sobbing), you will feel a lot better.’
I had a wonderful time enjoying his conversation even in the midst of his tears with his mum. The part that almost annoyed me, was when I heard that certain people were planning to take the mother up for saying she will punish her child. These persons or groups seem to have forgotten the many serious issues of child rape, abuse, kidnaps etc going on, the domestic battery and violence, the problem of depression from loss of work and no money or lack of proper health care that has allowed many treatable patients pass on to the other side untimely.
With the mighty logs in their eyes, they have left the more important things needing activist attention to disturb the net over a mother that recorded her private negotiation session with her son and put online. If she wanted to punish him, she would have done so without recording it and none of us would know what took place in her home. Apparently, he always makes her these kinds of promises and doesn’t keep them and if she shares the story outside, we won’t believe the young-man is good with negotiation, so she decided to play her home video outside.
If you don’t have anything to do, come I’ll point you in the right direction. Children of these days don’t need to be taught certain skills but encouraged to use it for greater good.
When I told my son to cut our video call, he refused and asked me to do it, I refused too. When his grandmother offered to cut it from his end, my one-liner 8-year son said to her, “that’s inappropriate!” Grandma, went her way o!
It’s #FreedomFriday, what are you on about? Like my mum used to say, “cool ya heart temper!” LOL
@imanikel 07082020 Frances Kelvin Otung
It’s a long road to victory
One that cost us family hours
And an end to smell the flowers
If you must, win! Make history!
Be a part of today’s story.
Don’t let anyone make you sigh,
As they all connivingly vie.
Will you attempt to jeopardize
Or willingly pay for the Prize?
All it takes to see you rise high!
That’s how this week went with Ronovan Décima Poetry Challenge.
@imanikel 06082020 Frances Kelvin Otung
I wish I could step on you and float through to the center
Release my bunch to meet my lost brother
I hope he’d rise above the splash into blue skies,
And join me to play till its bedtime or moon rise.
Would you be able to carry two?
Though by the look of things, he won’t dare you!
It seems, Caesar won’t let my wishes come true this time.
I wish I could rewind time to the day before the crime.
The waves beckon, but remembrance cautions,
Away from the solid sides you go dear phantom,
Away, you go!
*I was missing out on our 100 word story and I found Sonya! Yayy!
@imanikel 06082020 Frances Kelvin Otung
I wrote the this 2 years back in November. Not sure why I didn’t post it but I read it out and posted. So for those of you who like to read, what do you love like?
I love music like the way the heart loves air
like a patch of blue on red that makes one stare…
like the known voice of a lover who isn’t there
yet every reminder says to you, “I care!”
I love music like the aroma of good food
whose thoughts makes you salivate like good should
conjuring images whose anticipation feels really good
giving you satisfaction like you knew it would!
I love music like an unplanned touch of a lover
that reveals your feelings held under cover…
making you nod to its rhythm as you grow fonder,
listening to its’ blend as in amazement wonder.
I love music like a child who loves to giggle
and scream with laughter at every tickle…
for its ability to make me respond and toes wiggle…
and the atmosphere that allows us dance and mingle!
I love music …
@imanikel 05082020 Frances Kelvin Otung
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