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Banditry Poems - Poems about Banditry

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

Premium MemberSelf 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



Premium MemberMaking 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

Premium MemberGathering 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

Premium MemberOn 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

Premium MemberAt 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

Premium MemberStones

...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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