For Beauty and Love

For Beauty and Love

You can see her golden face shining from miles
The sunlight kissing her rosy cheeks as she smiles
She smiles with dimples of joy
She tickles the fancy of every boy
As she walks like a Princess on petals of roses
She is Anita Queen Uwagbale.

I celebrate the beauty of life and I celebrate love, because love is the heart and soul of life.

What is beauty without love?
And what is love without beauty?
What is an egg without the yolk?
And what is a soul without a heart?
Beauty without love is like a flower without nectar.
And in love is beauty made perfect.

Love, faithful and true makes you more beautiful. You can sniff the fragrance and see the radiance of a woman who is happy in love. She glows in the dark night and shines in the daylight as she smiles with dimples of joy.
A man who is happy in love walks as if he is ten feet tall and he performs better, because he wants to do his best for the love of the queen of his heart.

How can you be a beautiful woman without a heart filled with love?
How can you be a fine man when you behave like a brute?
How can you be happy in love when you are cheating and lying?
You put on a happy face, but you grimace in your heart.
Who is fooling whom?
C’mon! You cannot be a fool for love forever!
The taste of coffee is not the same with toffee even if the names rhyme.
Beauty without love is like a rhyme without a reason.
Separate the wheat from the chaff and embrace what will add value to your love life.

Love is not a game of egos and wits.
Love is not the bullshit of going after Totty in the dalliance of romance, cherry-picking more out of lust than love. And in most cases, when you say I am in love, it should have been I am in lust.
Your first sight of every beautiful woman is your definition of love at first sight. But it is actually lust at first sight.
Are you in love or are you in lust?

It is how much you love that makes you beautiful. So love more and more in faith and in truth and you will see how more beautiful you will become.


By Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima
Friday April 3, 2009.
1. 55 pm.

Sade Adeniran's "Imagine This" Makes Final List for the Commonwealth Writers Prize

Sade Adeniran's first novel "Imagine This" has been shortlisted for the 2008 Commonwealth Writers Prize for the Best First Book Award for Africa.

I pray she wins the highly coveted prize, because she deserves the success she has sacrificed so much for, intellectually, physically and financially.

She began writing the book in 1998 and it took her five years to complete it. She gave her family and friends to read it first before she sent it to fifteen agents and about twenty publishers and none of them accepted to publish it. She kept the novel under her bed until she made up her mind to pursue her great dream. Sade quit her job as a marketing executive for a telecom company and went to the Spanish Writers Retreat for a month to do nothing else but write. It was at the retreat that she decided to take the leap of faith and self-publish her novel.
“In a sense I approached it as a creative process, not a business enterprise,” Sade said.
She paid £100 for the ISBN and found a good printer at the London Book Fair. She spent over £2,000 to print 1,100 copies and started distributing the copies and giving it to Amazon.co.uk to sell more copies.

Sade should have given her first novel a better title, and prevent the confusion of the novel sharing the same title with other books like Julia Baird's Imagine This and Vickie M. Stringer's Imagine This.

Reviewers have praised "Imagine This" and I hope the novel wins the prize.


I wish her all the best.