I Was D'Politician
...I was D'politician
I was once the hammer in this world,
I was the people preacher and also the politician,
I was in charge of life incarnation through teaching,
I was a man of the people who ha...
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Categories:
banditry, betrayal, irony,
Form: Political Verse
Self Love
...Where was I?
unusual.
behind
the dizzying looking glass,
cement block,
panelled windows,
noonish saloons
sipping my loathing
like mosquitoes
milking stone veins
consti...
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Categories:
banditry, emotions, girl, self,
Form: Free verse
RICEPUBLIC
...Tell them we are working hard
They will soon afford to buy rice
Show them our graphic evidence
Of rice pyramids. We are self-sufficient.
When they complain of hardship
Give them rice!
When ...
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Categories:
banditry, betrayal, corruption, humanity, leadership,
Form: Free verse
THOSE DAYS
...Truly those days were fun,
Little children playing each,
With a fine decorated toy gun,
Life was serious yet catchy;
And we were easily convinced
‘ Sit back, I will buy you Akara’,
Was enough t...
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Categories:
banditry, character, depression, identity, integrity,
Form: Blank verse
The Tragedy of Reginald King, Part V
...V.
Reg did nothing but embrace her,
it seemed like the right thing to do,
she said, “Let’s just go back to bed,
it’s much nicer lying with you.”
The next day, while he was dressing
ro hit the...
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Categories:
banditry, history, lost, love, myth,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Making Sense of It All
...Please help me in my confusion
Come to my rescue
Do not leave me sitting all alone
On this lonely beach of abandonment
Help me my brothers
Help me my compatriots
Help me you all men o...
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Categories:
banditry, absence, allusion, anger, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Gathering Storm
...The political storm is gathering
Election fever is at its highest pitch
As Nigerians head to the polls
To exercise their franchise
In the mother of all elections
The most crucial ever
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Categories:
banditry, allusion, encouraging, evil, grief,
Form: Free verse
On the Run
...Nigerians are on the run
Refugees in search of Asylum
No more sweetness in their fatherland
Their dreams have crumbled
The giant of Africa is in shambles
With hope of her youth buried under ...
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Categories:
banditry, anger, anxiety, bereavement, conflict,
Form: Free verse
At Crossroads
...Nigeria my Country
Assailed,buffeted and violated
By evils of unimaginable proportions
Lies prostrate at the crossroads
Insurgency an anathema in our country
Has torn to shreds Our terri...
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Categories:
banditry, anger, bereavement, break up,
Form: Free verse
Question Mark Tale
...Goddamn smartass squirrel goes through a window and starts slapping a plush toy.
Turning it over and over.
"You got jacked, !"
Up on its attention antennae, sealed in clover.
Up for all comers, ...
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Categories:
banditry, love, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Stones
...The scene is of a damaged car, stained with blood
attracting people who gather to form a long cord
help is urgently needed but the hearts of men are bored
acting like the victim has been banned by...
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Categories:
banditry, community, evil, people, violence,
Form: Quintain (English)
Banditry
...Say ‘Yes’ to infantry
Not to Banditry:
To a nation-shepherding troop,
Not to a wealth-chasing group
From shattered homes
Or discontented domes.
A mass approach to violent robbery
By haters of ...
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Categories:
banditry, adventure, grief, murder,
Form: Rhyme
A Day Under the Sun
...Blue Hunter's Moon of the Festival of Lights.
And the day of Vengeance of our Holy One to comfort all those who mourn.
Isaiah 61:3-11
I Proclaim the acceptable Generation or Year and Day of Yeho...
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Categories:
banditry, blue, earth day, faith,
Form: Prose
Mean Mien Donald Trump
...Former CIA Director
John Brennan scathing headlines
Washington Post op-ed sharply
published critical accusations
muted excoriation slams
Commander in Chief
volcanic blatant pathological lying...
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Categories:
banditry, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Light Verse
Impoverish
...Impoverish the head
impoverish the body
impoverish the soul
of those who say
are citizens of nation
then nation is gone-
principles of banditry
in pre-literate, pre-modern
society of slumber
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Categories:
banditry, allegory, poverty, power,
Form: Free verse
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