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Abiola Poems - Poems about Abiola


Gone Forever
...I wish I could turn back the hands of time To the days we cooked jollof rice baptized with thyme While waiting for maami to come from market Where she has gone to shop without basket It is still ......

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Categories: abiola, absence, deep,
Form: I do not know?
Polithiefcians Are Here Again
...Polithiefcians are here again The polithiefcians here again with guns The blood of innocents about to be flowing again. In the silent breeze mouth about to stop chewing And body......

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Categories: abiola, satire
Form: Free verse



Magical Being
...Wonder why I never fell? Go down but never drown? Why a smile is always painted On my beautiful cheeks? You reason as to why My hearts sings always Gracious hymns And not songs of sorrow. ......

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Categories: abiola, friendship,
Form: Blank verse
Leave Us In Peace
...Rearing its ugly head Struggling to take shape The nincompoops’ have arrived Yes, truly derived The hyena’s abound The terrain advanced Abacha again?! Leave us in peace Abiola-like ears When withou......

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Categories: abiola, angst, death,
Form: Ballad

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