Amina Poems - Poems about Amina

...Ameituliza nafsi yangu Mkuu wa yote duniani Iwapo nitapoteza njia Najua penzi lake 'tanipata Anivite kwake, aniite wake......

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...EULOGY TO MRS (Ph.D) ALIHAJA, AMINAT OLABOOPO I From ‘Asabari’, I stand on the moon Blowing the flute of ‘Okere’ Telling the tale of your heroic arrival. ......

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...When I was still rising, from east to west Little I got it, my old ones tough They asked how much, the soil plus shelter I thought but bit, all for my laugh In the highest school on earth, wher......

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...I do not know what I'll find if I pull off your hijab Perhaps a cobra lurks to bite Whose venom will kill wit I've bared my heart into sonnets Sadly you will never read them- you aren't letter......

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...You blend the colours Mix then match Converting our sorrows Painting the plain Mending fabrics Of fragile minds Soothing them with tender stitches To befit the grieving souls We sang you a ......

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...I was asleep And in my dreams were visions Visions of beauty grandeur For there were Angels Interacting moving so invasively Such wonders A delight beautiful as prisms and lights and they were......

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...[Dedicated to Aung San Suu Kyi, the greatest Fraud of all times] Darkness like Halagu Khan is running taking sword in hand; Light is fleeing raising its tail. The decorated dream-city will lo......

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...Silent Lies and Deception In the silence of murky waters There slithers oily snakes of the night Wearing masks of deception Beware of fools singing with Stalin’s tongue The KGB shall set y......

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...Roy retelling a story of his so-journey to the land of splendor the land of light there our Roy stated his case and found favor amina thanks giving prayers offered in good time would soon offer ......

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...the episode took place near the sewer the boy lay lifeless on the stiff ground his white clothes dipping in red a rowdy mob encircled him like vultures awaiting the surrender of a fighting spiri......

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...In the morning I stepped out upon a snow of tears. I looked up at the sky to see the clouds dropping their share of melancholy for Mary, Martha and Margaret and for those left behind by their ......

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...Rise up black woman and you all of other colours Rise up and grab your fallen baton Passed down from the hand of heroines past Rise up from the grave Amina Zazzau The lioness who hunted for lion......

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...The town-crier said it thirty-many years ago About the pool of blood that swept my fathers time Not excluding the famous town-crier of that era People freely bought their ticket to heaven and hell......

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...In the thickets of the forests and grooves On the paths through the deserts and the wild Walked in the robe of nobility The one who defied the wind and tidal wave Who throned on a mighty white ho......

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