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BEST I EVER HAD

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Friend you know what?

These words are of great worth

Cos I’ve tried to write for years

But all I do was shed tears

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CALL FOR SUBMISSION: Antoloji of Naija Puems

Arojah Concepts, an Abuja based edutainment outfit in collaboration with SOMETIN FO EVRIBODI has concluded plans to publish an Antoloji of Naija Puems (Poems in Nigerian Pidgin) and thereby wishes to invite interested Nigerians to send in their entries.

The anthology which will be [...]

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Away from you

I wrote this after reading the April theme for Quarrtsiluni: Imprisonment. Please let me know what you think and if does feel like somebody who is in prison. Thanks.

 

Away from you

Inside these concrete walls with no mercy

I sit and cry, [...]

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The abused woman cries.

Lurking behind the shadow of gaiety,
is a fear that hides behind the beauty.
It’s a struggle; it’s survival of the fittest,
a war between her calm outside and an inside that’s not at rest.
Calm cool terrain it seems [...]

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PIECEMEAL

If the rain from Heaven should fall can it wash away the pain?

Pain of my people

For many years we’ve heard your promises, none of which you fulfilled

Now you come to me with sacks of Gold

You want to buy my peoples vote

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I'LL PAY THE PRICE

Whispers no longer suffice
Its time to pay the price
I’ll give it all to you this day
No matter what will or may

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A Sage's Letter to a Friend

Don’t pray that your enemies live long…
You might not live to discover you were wrong! 

If you live a life full of dreams,
You just might be dreaming when opportunity beams.

Don’t ask to see death’s sting,
Seek the [...]

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THE JOURNEY OF THE UNKNOWN

 

We  are nothing but a  flick

Visitors of this terrestrial ball,

In the twinkling of an eye,

We are puffed out

One day we’ll continue the journey,

Our journey into the unknown

 

Weep not at my grave,

Weep not,

Instead rejoice, rejoice [...]

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BEWARE!

Beware,

He who compares you

To silver will someday

Exchange you for gold

He who compares you

To gold will someday

Exchange [...]

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ARMS’ LENGTH, OGBOMOSO

Thrown round them

Like a spiritual eclipse

Like eyes deeply famished

By an un-ubiquitous heart

An ushering hug

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tears...

…for those who have lost a mother

my face is wet

and i know not yet

whether it be rain or tears

my heart beats

with spasmodic feats

is it anticipation or fear that bring this tears

i see through the blur

of [...]

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(H)Aiku/ Hi Coup/ High Coo/ Haiku- EPISODES 1-3

EPISODE 1

(H)Aiku - We never Die

Yes, we never die

We will live on forever

Lie, for we all must

 

EPISODE 2

IRONY OF LIFE

Leaves and shades of green

Cluster minds of the aged

Leaving bright rays here

[...]

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EARTH’S GROAN

(For Japan)

Listen, can you feel death’s breath-

Beneath these rubbles?  If you can, feel

Once more the cold feet of Takashi and Kitasata

Taking rude steps over your sunken breasts.

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MASQUERADE SPIRITS/ I AM NOT A VIRGIN

MASQUERADE SPIRITS

 

The beats growl on

Clinging louder with the accompaniment

The gusto and theatrics falter

The masquerade slowly realizing

Its magic lost

No longer the pretence

As even the children stare

Into the eyes of the ‘spirits’

Known to all as flesh

[...]

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My Victory!

My victory,

It started with my Common entrance examinations

My victory,

It started with my mock examinations

My victory,

It started with my junior WAEC

My victory,

It started with my senior WAEC

It was my first victory!

My victory,

It started with polyJAMB

[...]

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