YOUNG AND OLD
...YOUNG AND OLD
Wisdom is the only entity that rules this sphere.
'Omode gbon, agba gbon lafi dale ife.'
The translation cascades from life's vault:
On the wisdom of both youths & adults,
The f...
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Categories:
agba, 1st grade,
Form: Rhyme
Into a Music
...This is just the start we’ve been clamoring for
A time we can come out to share our thoughts and words into tune with rhythm
This is the time we can have our voice into mic and everyone will thin...
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Categories:
agba, culture, future,
Form: Carpe Diem
The Mosquito's Lullaby of Death
...Alas, at night starts the night tune
Thought to lull me to sleep good.
A rhythm of sweet deadly melodies in my ears
Even, clapping my hands to the melody that causes tears.
I stay awake because...
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Categories:
agba, africa, anger, emotions, feelings,
Form: Elegy
Ifeoma Di Niro
...Onye ebezina na uju na oga adinma
Onye echezina maka na echi nabia
di ime oweghi onye ma ihe oga amu
obu nwoke ma nwa nwayi oma
Jiri ndidi sowe uwa na oga adinma
Efi na eweghi odudu obu chi ya...
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Categories:
agba, africa,
Form: Blank verse
Ezi Enyi Ka Nwanne
...Ezi enyi amaka na uwa
Ezi enyi ka nwanne ojo
Lezie enyi gi anya oge nile
Ahabula ya ka onwu na nsogbu.
Owere enyi ka nwanne ma
Obu ikwu na ibe gi na uwa
Mgbe nsogbu di ono ya,
Na oganihu ...
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Categories:
agba, africa,
Form: Epigram
The Icon of Nigerian Politics
...FOR DR. ABUBAKAR OLUSOLA SARAKI
Ilorin is bereaved again: another calamity has struck!
Ilorin has lost another pride of the community.
Saraki this time! Why has Mr. Death focused on us?
He has al...
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Categories:
agba, bereavement, , literature,
Form: Elegy
I Know the Tree In My Village
...We once climbed those tree happily
As mum and daddy were at home enjoying themselves.
We sang kpakpangolo ogolo, sang Onye ga agba egwu
Who is in the garden and my grand pa has a big eyes
Those s...
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Categories:
agba, art, mum, endurance, ,
Form: Lyric
Nkporo: My Country Home 6
...Life in Nkporo is very fun and appealing,
There we play hide and seek with the girls.
We rocked and rolled with boom boom rock lock.
Dance Kpakpangolo-udume that stupid songs,
We also sang Onye g...
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Categories:
agba, age, , cute,
Form: Narrative
To the Syrian Child
...Dedicated to all the children who were
Victims of the conflicts in Syria
You have heard more grenades crack at dawn
As bullets wizz beneath your pale sun-
O Syrian Child! Whose famil...
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Categories:
agba, abuse, allah, bereavement, caregiving,
Form: Ballade
Mushin
...Mushin Ajina
Bojiojimi
Eruobodo, ogongo baba eiye
Ofigbogbo ara shogun bi olosha
Gidigbalo dawa omowipe ebi npa omo enikankan
Iluola ti ki nsekan labo afi kobuyari
Iluoola bab...
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Categories:
agba, dedicationlanguage, language,
Form: Free verse
Honeymoon Cocoon
...Fly me to the moon
Play us the bedroom tunes
The nod-nod head of lovers’ hoots
Let’s twirl this tango as David in jolly mood
And coil in celestial honeymoon cocoon.
PRINCE AGBA...
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Categories:
agba, wedding
Form: Limerick
Valentine Tango In Honeymoon
...Fly me to the moon
And let me play the stringed tunes,
The nod-nod head of a lover’s hoot
Let me dance amo...
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Categories:
agba, dedication, devotion, friendship, husband,
Form: Romanticism
Transition
...We are travellers on this terrestial plane
where acorns are consumed in tinder season
oaks fell by angry hurricane
robust iroko mowed by lumbers greedy saw
haughty araba viciously murdered for...
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Categories:
agba, death, life, sad, light,
Form: Blank verse