IB

Creative, Poet & Spoken Word Artist. ‘24 Winner @augursociety Micro-Fiction Contest, ‘24 Winner @PoetryJourn Prize, ‘23 Winner @phpoetryfest Poetry AOTY

[IB @_therealib]

Excited to share that my poem “Omi O L’ota” has won the poetry category of the 2024 Augur’s Annual Micro-Fiction Contest!

Many thanks to @augursociety for this wonderful recognition.

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@slashnburnett The winning pieces are...

✨Poetry:

“Omi O L’ota” by @_therealib

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Thanks Outlook 😊

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And on certain days, I could hardly recognize the sound of my heartbeat.

[Dear Self. @Dearme2_]

Bounce back man, get your spark back. You deserve to be happy.

[cuban 🍂 @cubantobacco]

the pH of the vagina is so acidic it can completely dissolve $1.25T in market capitalization

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Your identity will always come before your spirituality

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Ruth Langmore didn’t have to die

[Uche Nduka @UcheNdukaPoet]

Remembering Ken Saro-Wiwa, Writer/Environmental activist (10/10/41-11/10/95) and the Ogoni 8. Brave humanists & activists who were killed for taking on Shell and the Nigerian dictatorship.

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You are everything I want but I didn’t think I’d find

[Dewayne Perkins @DewaynePerkins]

Consumption of an art form doesn’t make you an expert of it. Studying it does. Practicing it does. Executing it does. Watching a lot of movies doesn’t make you a filmmaker. Listening to a lot of music doesn’t make you an artist/record exec. I’m not a chef cuz I eat a lot of food

[Bob Golen @BobGolen]

Lord, grant me the serenity to accept the terms and conditions I do not read.

[Math Files @Math_files]

“I love you” is a mathematical function in which “I love” is a constant and “you” is a variable.

[Justin Skycak @justinskycak]

The most dangerous form of laziness is performative productivity. Notes, tabs, highlights, summaries, plans. A whole pile of activity arranged to avoid direct contact with the work.

[Summie's write @RuthSummie]

Maybe all writers are just people trying to leave evidence that they were here, that they noticed the rain, loved someone, lost something, and found the world worth describing despite everything.

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Can the lion be greater than the jungle?

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Ask Omotola ask Genevieve
The kind of false things that people believe

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Nigeria kills you, then blames you for dying.

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Take me to church

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One of none. You’ll never find another me.

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I go harder when the odds against me

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There is no version of your life where everyone is happy with your choices. It doesn't exist.