Piker Press — Weekly Journal of Arts and Literature
April 27, 2026

There Is a Supplication Point Between Child-Hens and Children

Ambivert. One of the ten percent world southpaws. Writing evolves from thought, and so, Ridwanullah is a thinker. He is a virtuous indigene of Osun state, Nigeria.

There Is a Supplication Point Between Child-Hens and Children

Each time I run into a heavy hen along the street,
I whisper a prayer to myself,
For the poor rooster
To not hatch a hawk instead of a fowl
To not lay stomach disorder
That'll not in a-year-time,
Grow into a pullet
To not be delivered of a second to one, but the first
To not be delivered of a substance
That'd end up poisoning the village
In this season of life,
We see child-hens
That are not to be sold
To factories producing eggs
For their eggs, if hatched, would pollute other hens.






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Ridwan Adedeji
05/31/2022
09:57:38 AM
The poem is nice. I love it.
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