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Joseph Oladehinde Oluwatobi Ibikunle (born 31 July, 1988) is a Nigeria poet and playwright. He was born in Alagbado, a town in the outskirt of Lagos State. Joseph spent all his life in Alagbado before 2010 when he left the town to Osun state for his tertiary education. After his education, he decided to stay in Osun state where he currently lives and works as ESL instructor. Joseph is phenomenal and his works are far beyond his academic qualification. He currently has the Nigerian Certificate in Education, a certificate which the country’s educational policy equals with second year in the university, yet his works command audience from all part of the world. In his poem “Euphony of Myself”, he described himself thus: “I am that undaunted pen/ That writes on an uneven tablet/ Some rhetoric pentametres./ I am the poet of ludicrous limericks,/ I am the poet of witty didactics./ I write of canal, I write of spirit/ Of loathe and of love.”

A close study of his poems showed that he is greatly influenced by Edger Allan Poe, Walt Whiteman, Sir Walter Raleigh, Williams Shakespeare and others. In January 2014, he released a poem, a parody to Edward Lear’s Limericks, he gave the poem a different title “Lu-mericks”. According to him, he said Lu-mericks is an African version of the English limericks as popularized by Edward Lear. The most popular stanza goes thus

"There was a naughty pugilist,/ Who fearlessly punched a herbalist./ He was conjured to punch wall,/ Till his knuckles wear and fall./ And he never again dared an African herbalist."

References Poemhunter.com Allpoetry.com www.oladehindeibikunle.wordpress.com