My Fav Books

  • A Bend in the River by VS Naipaul
  • All the Names - José Saramago
  • An untamed state by Roxanne Gay
  • Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
  • Cujo by Stephen King
  • Efuru by Flora Nwapa
  • It by Stephen King
  • Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
  • Lasher by Ann Rice
  • Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
  • Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Petals of Blood
  • One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
  • Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
  • So Long a letter by Mariama Ba
  • The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born by Ayi Kwei Arma
  • The Dark Tower (all 6) by Stephen King
  • The Joys of Motherhood by Buchi Emecheta
  • The Queen of the Damned by Anne Rice
  • The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
  • Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
  • Tick Tock by Dean Koontz

Thursday, December 4, 2008

Poetry: In Memoriam

I didn't get to see you before you left,
Didn't get to say my good bye's,
Didn't get to hug you and kiss you good night,
Didn't get to tell you how much I was proud to have you as a father,
Didn't get the chance to tell you I was sorry for being stupid sometimes,
Didn't get to dance with you at my wedding,
and you wont get a chance to see your grandchildren,
and I wont get the chance to say I love you one more time.

I wish I could have those chances,
but as I remember you fondly today,
I am glad to have had the chance of having a father like you.
Thank you Dad!


PS
For my late Dad, Augustine Osiebe Esiri.
Who died on the 2nd of December, 2006.
He is Fondly remembered by Me, Rowland,
Juliet, Sonia,Biodun, Onome, Aramide, Sope, Tega
and the others.

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