Bio

Mutiu Olawuyi (popularly called the Jungle Poet) is an international award-winning poet - 2012 International Who's Who in Poetry Awardee, USA; 2013 World Poetry Empowered Poet Awardee,Canada, Honorary Professor - International Art Academy, Greece, and 2014 Marqui's Who's Who in the World Listee, USA, World Poetry Cultural Ambasador (2014). He has authored four books of poetry (i.e. American Literary Legends and Other Poems [2010], Thoughts from the Jungle [2012], 9/11 Poetry [2012], and The Journey to the Archangels [2013]) and has edited numerous international anthologies, journals and magazines. Mutiu is a teacher, freelance writer/editor, literary critic and inventor of a new form of poetry called 9eleven (a poem of 9 lines written with 11 syllables). He has some of his poems, short stories and research papers published in online and offline journals and magazines in India, Ireland, England, Canada, Greece, Nigeria and USA. Finally, some of his works have been translated to Arabic, French, Esperantos, Malayalam, Telugu and Hungarian. Go to http://versesofthejunglepoet.blogspot.com for more information about him.

Gold
Coast
has lost
to slavery
via her head's lust
for albinos' kits.

Beats
With
Ivories
swiftly turned
to strong lashes
on her lost kids' backs...

Her
lads
now lie
flatly for
albinos' rods
with their shameless pride...

Gold
Coast's
dark walls –
repainted
in white and red
Yet, the lust is lost...