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Posted on December 22, 2020
by Ugo Nkwoala
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Believe me! He is real; but, she doesn’t exist.On your screen, her photo – a deliberate fabricationakin to the menace of malware and Photoshopmanipulated by a jackass in O-Town1 with ill intentis not your moonshot cure to midlife’s loneliness. Her gestures – a sham… Continue Reading “Before You Click”
Category: Family, Sex & Sexuality, Nature, Love & PoetryTags: advice, Betrayal, broken-hearted, emotional-wreck, Internet-Fraud, lies, Love-scammer, Maga, Midlife Crisis, money, O-Town, Online-Dating, Owerri, rip-off, yahoo-yahoo
Posted on September 27, 2020
by Ugo Nkwoala
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Cross-legged In repose against the couchin a criss-cross plunging V-cut top –breasts betrayed, legs splayed.She sat carefree, cross-legged as if to say“Enjoy the view,”as if worn to be seen or complimented –her lacy lingerie, the showing off of a thighthat advertises her youth –curves… Continue Reading “MIDLIFE – A Collection of Poems (5)”
Category: Family, Sex & Sexuality, Politics & Social normsTags: aging, anti-aging, anxiety, choices, contentment, Cross-legged, direction, drama, eternal-life, Fidelity, fifties, happiness, human-desire, life, life-and-living, life-lessons, meaning, midlife, midlife-adventure, midlife-crisis, money, nostalgia, open-legs, purpose, reinvention, wardrobe malfunction, wisdom
Posted on September 26, 2020
by Ugo Nkwoala
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Born Again Papa is born againthis new spirit in him –crinkled eyes, fading skinbald-head, graying side-burnsis dogged. Many thirty-year-olds or even lessare responsive, like Lydia was to Paulthis good news –Money, Power, and Confidencewhich were elusive at tender years. It is difficult and different… Continue Reading “MIDLIFE – A Collection of Poems (4)”
Category: Family, Sex & Sexuality, Nature, Love & PoetryTags: aging, anti-aging, anxiety, choices, contentment, direction, drama, eternal-life, Fidelity, fifties, happiness, human-desire, life, life-and-living, life-lessons, meaning, midlife, midlife-adventure, midlife-crisis, money, nostalgia, purpose, reinvention, wisdom
Posted on September 23, 2020
by Ugo Nkwoala
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This week we explore five poems highlighting a crisis older adults go through. A phase when falling health distorts their anatomy or worst a stage some feel they could be happier by making adverse changes in their life, and they feel the urge to… Continue Reading “MIDLIFE – A Collection of Poems (1)”
Category: Family, Sex & Sexuality, Nature, Love & PoetryTags: aging, choices, contentment, crisis, direction, drama, eternal-life, fifties, happiness, human-desire, life, life-and-living, life-lessons, meaning, midlife, money, nostalgia, purpose, reinvention, wisdom
Posted on September 15, 2020
by Ugo Nkwoala
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To spend your life livingin fear and ignorancenever exploring your dreamsis cruel. To work hard for moneythinking it will buy youall things that will make you happyis crueler. To wake up in the middleof the night terrified by bills,is a horrible way to live.More… Continue Reading “9 to 5”
Category: Politics & Social normsTags: Capitalism, career, commitment, conformity, dedication, Depression, Employment, happiness, job, life, lifestyle, money, nine-to-five, occupation, Rat-race, sacrifice, work-life-balance, workplace
Posted on September 8, 2020
by Ugo Nkwoala
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I – all my father bequeathed mewere good name n’ honesty – a treasure,so rich to pay for Tomorrow’s fare –value beyond measure. A bureaucrat, resorting to vile schemesto covet commonwealth to bestow to his childrenmy father did not, nor did his fathers before… Continue Reading “Inheritance”
Category: Family, Sex & Sexuality, Politics & Social normsTags: bribe, bribery, conscience, Corruption, extortion, inheritance, leadership, money, personal-development, self-improvement, upbringing
Posted on August 27, 2020
by Ugo Nkwoala
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Good, God! A word was once saidof your persecuted devotees – Christians:“Faith and virtue runs in their tribe”;conmen now man churches, they’vesold your Jesus for a new master – MoneyNaira is now Alpha and Omegacommerce, mega domes n’ elegant altersis now fad – the… Continue Reading “Good, God!”
Category: Nature, Love & Poetry, Politics & Social normsTags: Alpha and Omega, born-again, christianity, Christians, church, commerce, conmen, evangelism, faith, God, hypocrisy, money, preacher-man, unethical, vanity
Posted on August 23, 2020
by Ugo Nkwoala
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He’s mad,if a man is after moneylike a fugitive on the run.He’s a capitalistif he keeps itby whatever means necessary –ruining anyone solely for profit. He’s a playboyif he spends itwithout a careon booze n’ boobs.A never-do-wellif he doesn’t get itat the dint of… Continue Reading “Money is Only Paper”
Category: Nature, Love & Poetry, Politics & Social normsTags: Capitalism, character, conscience, Delusion, ethics, God, Greed, happiness, human-desire, Humanity, money, morality, pleasure, Poverty, principle, Proverbs 10:22, responsibility, society, Wealth
Posted on July 14, 2020
by Ugo Nkwoala
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7 Social Sins there are:Wealth without work.Pleasure without conscience.Knowledge without character.Commerce without morality.Science without humanity.Worship without sacrifice.Politics without principle. Copyright © Frederick Lewis Donaldson |1925 Frederick Lewis Donaldson (1860-1953) was an Anglican priest, well known as the Red Vicar of St Mark’s Leicester, and… Continue Reading “A Sermon”
Category: Nature, Love & Poetry, Politics & Social normsTags: character, commerce, conscience, happiness, Humanity, money, pleasure, Politics, principle, sacrifice, social-norms, Wealth, worship
Posted on February 13, 2020
by Ugo Nkwoala
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Happy are you o man, who finds meYour paths of inquiry into my abode not withstandingFor I answer everything you call meHave done so with no iota of my wits bending. Happy you are if you house me in your roomI am money, I… Continue Reading “The Gospel…”