Ode to Api - Grandmother
...Cycling amidst the gloom and glee
She pedals the life's tapestry while
People whisper the bad and good thing
She'd lived in her life,
Though lying in sick-bed
No one dared to spare her;
She sti...
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Categories:
amara, grandmother,
Form: Free verse
We Are Back Home
...We are back home to our land,
Of a black fecund earth,
That sits betwixt Rumuji and Obele
To brook of your breasted milk earth.
Shall Wovrugo be back to awaken the red face shrine?
Far the cit...
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Categories:
amara, culture, war,
Form: Free verse
I Like It Black and Strong
...Nefertari
Amenities of the African lands
Indigenous black beautiful roses
Of the African soil
Dark and strong
In a black alluring archaic vogue
an amara in black woman
Sisters of samandzie...
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Categories:
amara, africa, beautiful, beauty, black
Form: Ode
Mi Unica Falla
...Sentado aquí contemplando tu despedida
pues presiento que estoy a punto de verte partir de mi vida
y asi como entrastes en ella ahora tomaras la salida
y contigo te llevas mi corazón y dejas una gran...
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Categories:
amara, lost love, me, me,
Form: Rhyme
Mi Linda Amada
...Asi como Cornelio Reyna yo también me caí de la nube en que andaba
por andar de enamorado terminé poniendo en la mujer de otro mi mirada
una sonrisa y buena conversación y su numero telefonico me dab...
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Categories:
amara, lost love, love, me,
Form: Rhyme
Madre Nueva
...Madre Nueva
Una jovencita tan más Hermosa
Muy humilde e inocente
Que con amor se cree cualquier cosa
Sin saber qué mala es la gente
Qué más quisiera yo
Que enseñarle de la vida
Para que no ...
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Categories:
amara, mother
Form: Rhyme
Nigeria 1
...Nigeria is this you the golden eagle
Feeding on dried vegetation with wings in black
Once like Isaac in sight of Abraham
A rose in the hands of jezebel thou are
Could that be you so lean as if ...
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Categories:
amara, anniversary, black african american,
Form: Sonnet