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I Just Can'T Win

Many 
contestants;
great,  
small, 
experts, 
novices.
Many 
entries; 
masterworks,  
masterpieces, 
chef d' 
oeuvres, 
magnum 
opuses,doggorels.
Well 
experienced 
Judges 
with 
wonderful 
tastes for 
poetry,
Ready and 
eager to 
have my 
lines 
examined. 
With my 
blunt 
pencil and 
grandpa's 
dictionary,
I worked 
hard to 
pen down 
this 
doggerel.
With my 
grain of 
faith I 
thought it 
could win 
me a prize;
How 
wrong i 
was! Oh 
what 
vanity!
I should 
have 
known 
this earlier,
This is a 
contest i 
just can't 
win.

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Games of Nature

Lying about like a flimsy 
rag,
Which have had its 
journey aided by the wind,
We daily watch the 
games played by the 
agents of nature,
That are always willing to 
present before us a 
puzzle. 

The wind in its full force 
mercilessly blows,
Away the leaves and 
trashes that lie about.
The tree with its leaves 
rejoices,
For the wind makes it 
happy every blessed day. 

The sun with its radiant 
beam,
Gladly releases its rays to 
warm our bodies and 
houses.
Even our wet clothes 
tends to applaud, 
 This grand sphere 
made by divine hands. 

The cries of divine beings,
The tears and sweats 
from their immortal 
bodies ,
Drops willing to wet our 
dry north-east Nigeria,
Cruelly washing off our 
humus and grains.

The dark brown earth that 
gathered,
And were trodden by the 
old and young gone 
before; 
The fields on which we 
now grow our crops,
Were all droppings of 
heavenly birds.

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Sun

Beam from a spherical body;
Formed by divine hands,
Travel down towards the earth 
in rays;
Landing on men's thin lined 
epidermis,
Exerting its strength on their 
skins,
Thus, making them make 
noises;
Ranging from shrieks to 
screams.  
In their screams, they cursed 
the sun saying;
Oh Sun! May thou loose thy 
brightness,
And may thy shape be lost; let 
it be square.
Look at the scourge you have 
given to us,
It has colored our light skins; 
making it black.

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Men

Men are still men, even if 
they fail.
They may get wounded, 
battered and shattered
By life's problems, 
struggles and storms,
But they still remain men-
they cannot be women.
Life's challenges may mar 
or deform them,
Still yet, they are men no 
matter what happened.
They are great-all of em,
Though some may not 
look it.
They all have potentials-
though many 
undiscovered.
All in all, men are men 
and nothing can change 
that.

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Traffic

Horns blowing; noise 
everywhere,
Screeches of brakes,cars 
trapped,
Drivers and car owners raining 
abuses and slagging each 
other off.
The warden waving his hands;
Stood in the middle of the 
road,
Religiously performing his 
duties. 
Workers, traders, 
teachers,students, everyone's 
hurrying,
Each taking the slip road to 
avoid been late.

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That Place

Like a stillborn child they slept;
Their good and evils they 
couldn't do again.
In a place quiet, dark and 
lonely,
Where even prisoners are as 
free as kings.

Many hopeless people desire to 
go there and live;
Those who are grieved; who 
seek death.
The rich, the poor, the famous, 
the wretched; 
Those who prefer the grave to 
any treasure.

They desire to go there; 
A place with a mouth that 
never closes;
 Always open to recieve;
Always expanding to 
accomodate-
The vast populace trooping in.
 
How I hate to go there,
 The tombs stones and 
engravings;
Oh! what a terrible sight!  
Always, I pray earnestly,
Not to travel that to land.

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Happy Birthday

Today is 
your day 
and you are 
wished the 
best,
I hope you 
celebrate 
it,with a lot 
of zest.
For today 
though you 
are a year 
older,
Store away 
your many 
wishes,till 
you grow 
bolder.
So let the 
drums toll 
and horns 
toot,
Now make a 
wish for a lot 
of loot.

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Regardless

The cock 
crows in 
the 
morning,
It doesn't 
care who's 
listening. 
The 
morning 
breaks, 
with the 
sun 
shining,
Not 
regarding 
whether 
or not 
men are 
noticing.

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The Bedevilled Man

"A man will give up 
everything 
for his life," 
Said one man in a book I 
once 
read.
That man was married to 
a 
foolish and wicked wife,
Who desired that he 
should 
meet his end.

"Are you still holding on 
to 
your integrity?" She 
asked.
"You are talking like a 
foolish 
woman." He replied.
For He was bedeviled 
with 
pains by a fiend;
Despite that, he didn't at 
all 
utter a single sinful word.


 This man was also very 
unfortunate and 
wretched;
For he had three 
unsympathetics for 
friends.
"May the day of my birth 
perish." He cursed;
Because no one could 
heal his 
pains, not even his 
friends.


He cursed and cursed the 
day 
of his birth again,
That day: may it turn to 
darkness,
And may God above not 
care 
about it again.
Upon it, let there be murk 
and 
blackness.


Oh! how terrible it was 
for that 
man.
Fame and fortune were 
once 
his friends,
But all things for him are 
now 
vain.
Foolish wife, lost wealth, 
bad 
health, unsympathetic 
friends.

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Amazed

I stand amazed...,
Watching,
Looking at you;
Can't you see me..
Behind those trees of tired 
gaze,
Facing the high towered 
edifice-
Having its abode in the land 
suffused with evil?
Am amazed..
Don't ask me why,
Share not in my amazement 
either...
I would rather spend it alone.
But ask yourself if you are not 
worth this amazement...
And I will let you share my 
cup of grief over evil.