By Sandra C. Obiora. Written 7th February 2022
‘Let Us make man in Our image,
After Our likeness’
was on one newly created day uttered
By the One who existed before time began.
Tag Archives: life
2023 Let’s Go!
It is always such a wonder when a new year comes around. It is a marvellous thing to be alive. To be breathing, to be thinking, to be feeling, to be sane.
Things may not always be perfect but it is incredible that we have strength in our bones, shelter over our heads, and food to eat.
Looking back at 2022, we see the grace and goodness of God layered heavily upon each day.
Thus, for this new year, let’s live in gratitude. Let our testimony always be
“This is a minute, an hour, a day, a week, a month, a year, and a life that the Lord has made. I will rejoice and be glad in it. “ Amen
HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM APOETSBRAIN UNIVERSE! IT’S A YEAR OF GRATITUDE, PEACE, AND GREAT UNENDING JOY!
Forgotten Lover
An Apoetsbrain Original 2011 ©
It appears you must always be by my side
For me to think more about you.
I know I may promise you now
That I will think about you everyday that you are away,
But we both know that is untrue. Continue reading Forgotten Lover
Mainstream
Featured Poem written by Bonsu Adjei-Arthur
‘Sometimes, our best work is done in secret’ they say
But we all crave the day the public gets a hint of ‘our base’
Several stories get lost in the universe like those star gazes
Any reason why heaven does not record the crowd but the secret places? Continue reading Mainstream
When My Daughter Turns Five
Featured Poem written by Joan Toluwani Amos ©
When my first daughter turns five
‘Princess!’ I’ll call her Continue reading When My Daughter Turns Five
Colours
2022 Here We Go!
It is always such a wonder when a new year comes around. It is a marvellous thing to be alive. To be breathing, to be thinking, to be feeling, to be sane.
Things may not always be perfect but it is incredible that we have strength in our bones, shelter over our heads, and food to eat.
Looking back at 2021, we see the grace and goodness of God layered heavily on each day.
Thus, for this new year, let’s live in gratitude. Let our testimony always be
“This is a minute, an hour, a day, a week, a month, a year, and a life that the Lord has made. I will rejoice and be glad in it. “ Amen
HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM APOETSBRAIN UNIVERSE! IT’S A YEAR OF GRATITUDE, PEACE, AND GREAT UNENDING JOY!
Decades Come and Go
An Apoetsbrain Original © Written 31st December 2019
As I look out my window at bleak skies,
As I feel my way through the winter chill
As I think of glories past
As I dwell on things to come. Continue reading Decades Come and Go
Grand Hands
“There comes a time when you realize that your life is no longer in any man’s hands. Not in your parents, or your siblings, or friends, not in yours, but in the hand of God who does as He wills. And then you stop fighting and kicking against the pricks. You gain that smoother Iife of peace, and surrender. Then all you can say is:
“Not my will Lord, but yours be done.”
~Sandra C. Obiora 😊
I Lived!
An Apoetsbrain Original Written 3/04/2020 © All rights reserved.
I lived. I lived. I lived.
I know that eight billion others exist alongside me.
I know that others have come and gone before me.
I know it has all been said before in different ways and phrases.
I know that in the picture of space and time we are smaller than a spec.
Yet this is the beauty of our humanity.
That we can cycle through life enjoying what has always been enjoyed.
Thus, I will not get lost in mundane thoughts.
I will not get stuck in mediocrity.
One and all eight billion will know!
I lived. I lived. I lived!
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To Squash A Star
An Apoetsbrain original ©
Tonight I looked up at a star as it sparkled so brightly.
I lifted up my hands in the freezing night and placed the twinkling Little Star between my thumb and index finger all set to squash it. Continue reading To Squash A Star
Just a Little More
“Sometimes, all it takes is a little more strength, a little more courage, a little more interest, a little more determination. Not a lot more, just a tiny bit more than you had before to make it through, and suffer no regrets.”
~ Quotes by Apoetsbrain
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Existence
“Imagine your existence. Remember the reality of your consciousness. Now Imagine only existing. Existing with no purpose, no warmth, no life.Knowing nothing, heading nowhere even after death. Such hopelessness!I wish to have nothing to do with it.
For indeed man was designed for immortality. By nature we are immortal. Where man therefore spends the rest of eternity after his time on earth is the most crucial question of his existence. Now we must decide. With God or without?”
~ Sandra C. Obiora
A Person of My People
Reflections from Summer 2018. A piece by Sandra C. Bamisile ©
Being Nigerian in Nigeria is something nearly profound. There is a comfort that creeps over my skin. It is almost suffocating how magnificent it feels to be your own person among your own people. It is almost bewildering how ecstatic I am to eat the food of my people by my people, with my people. Continue reading A Person of My People
The World With No Sound
By Sandra C. Obiora. Written 6.3.13 © All rights reserved.
Imagine with me for a second a world without sound.
The ocean without the lapping and flapping of the waves,
Staring At Closed Doors
“When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us.”
-Alexander Graham Bell
A Thousand MegaPixels
The following is a featured piece written by Bonsu Adjei-Arthur © All rights reserved
Arthur’s Introduction to this piece
I have looked at how my world has changed so much and how creative we have become and the extent of magic we can pull up with our creativity from our devices and everything. However, I also felt the need to talk about the downside of all these great things and how people don’t fit. I played the part of the architect generation and how I am happy to see the delusion, the reality and all the glamour of everything and how it seems to all play into my grand plan. As such, I titled it. A THOUSAND MEGAPIXELS. Enjoy. Continue reading A Thousand MegaPixels
Tighten Your Seatbelts
Poem Written by Sandra Chukwudumebi Obiora 11.37am 21.05.2013 ©
‘Things are about to change! Prepare your heart for things will not stay the same.
You were wrong to indulge so much my dear. Stand up, dust up.
Unwise I might add, because now it is very hard for you to let go.
You should have just schemed the surface. Should not have gone in so deep.’
‘Now you are lost. Not sure why you must lose this comfort, if you will.
Yes you will. Reality is cruel my darling. So tie up your laces. Get ready.’
‘It will be taken away from you like it was never present.
It will become just like a mere figment of your imagination.’
‘Tighten your belts’; said the host.
‘Prepare for the next stage of your ride,
That phase where you lose it all again, to get it all back again;
In new forms, new faces, new shapes, new sizes, new voices, new knowledge’ he added.
‘For indeed many things will be lost, and many others gained.
Still you must persevere in this new weather you are soon to enter. Tighten your belt my love.’
‘Latch on to your parachute right now. Keep your head high.
For soon, the latch will be forced open, the wind will be let in, and you sent flying. So be strong!’.
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Just a Little More
“Sometimes, all it takes is a little more strength, a little more courage, a little more interest, a little more determination. Not a lot more, just a tiny bit more than you had before to make it through, and suffer no regrets.”
~ Quotes by Apoetsbrain
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Life is an Expedition
Poem Written by Krystal Orellano Weldon © 2020
I just follow my heart at any condition. Continue reading Life is an Expedition
Another Love Story
Written by Dr. Olusola O. Bamisile (BB)
I have heard a lot of stories about love
Some amazing and some sad
Earnestly waiting for the day I will start compiling mine
Life in Details
“The essence of life is found in the details.
It is not always written in the expanse of outlandish displays of joy, affection, peace…
It is often there lurking in-between milliseconds. Life is often there offering itself to you in the minute details of each minute.”
~ Sandra Chukwudumebi Obiora
Existence
“Imagine your existence. Now imagine only ever existing.”
~ Sandra C. Obiora
Dear Pink
Featured poem written by Cynthia Wulan ©
Dear
Darling, get up
Happiness awaits you Continue reading Dear Pink
If You Need It, Get It
“If you need it, and you can get it, get it. If you simply want it but do not need it, think more about how useful that thing will be to your overall advancement as a person spiritually, physically, socially, psychologically, intellectually. Also, it is really okay to treat yourself from time to time when you have been successful. The trick however is to first achieve something so tangible for which you cannot help but reward yourself even a little bit.”
~ Financial advice by Sandra C. Obiora
The World With No Sound
By Sandra C. Obiora ©. Written 6.3.13
Imagine with me for a second a world without sound.
The ocean without the lapping and flapping of the waves,
Friendless in Her Underwear
An Apoetsbrain Original ©
It used to be that she had too many friends. Now it seems like she has no one to call her own. Continue reading Friendless in Her Underwear
Viral
This is a featured piece written by Seni Joshua © All rights reserved.
They’re the Millennials. The Gen-Zs. The Instagram, Facebook and Snapchat generation. Continue reading Viral
To Squash A Star
An Apoetsbrain original ©
Tonight I looked up at a star as it sparkled so brightly.
I lifted up my hands in the freezing night and placed the twinkle Little Star between my thumb and index finger all set to squash it. Continue reading To Squash A Star
I Refuse to Believe It
“I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality…. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.”
~ Martin Luther King, Jr. Continue reading I Refuse to Believe It
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