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Benin Poems - Poems about Benin

LOVE'S LONG VOYAGE
...LOVE'S LONG VOYAGE Zoom! Zoom! Heartbeats echo & flicks like light, Journeying from early Lagos to Port Harcourt late, Sacrificing caution, adventure takes the wheel To be with you, the one my......

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Categories: benin, 1st grade,
Form: Rhyme
Late Explorer John Beecroft
...Why do these guys quit before seventy? After achievements Life on Earth empty! There was to be a Macgregor Laird: Before sixty-one years to rest laid... For my avid interest in History, I coul......

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Categories: benin, adventure, appreciation, celebrity, courage,
Form: Rhyme



Africa Is Not Your Lab
...AFRICA IS NOT YOUR LAB Monumental carcasses impended: Africa is not a lab, A pinch of your pin is worse than knife stab - Reducing a people you didn't create, Solution is your cunning bait Bu......

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Categories: benin, 1st grade, africa, america,
Form: Rhyme
A Million Ways To Say I Love You
...They say ?There are a million ways? To say I love you In this day and age? I could only find ?In my computer’s brain? The words to say I love you? In 53 languages of the 10,000 languages......

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Categories: benin, love, love hurts,
Form: Free verse
The Year of Rats
...2020 is the year of lassa fever Or the year of rats as I've heard somewhere, For as innocent as they might seem They are now reservoirs, Of these dreaded virus Causing lassa fever That  has spre......

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Categories: benin, 11th grade, africa, black
Form: Prose



Premium Member The Foolish Ruler
...The day is coming and it will come, when in retrospect, men shall mock them. Those who today ride in honour, trampling as they go. the upcoming springs will research their shame which they preten......

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Categories: benin, africa, corruption, evil, freedom,
Form: Bio
Premium Member Pro Patria Mori
...Pro Patria Mori Missouri volunteers bit bullets, watched as Santa Ana's baggage washed their brazen hair, hip deep in the Rio Grande. The ancient river moved across the land Like slow drool d......

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Categories: benin, america, military, patriotic, soldier,
Form: Verse
Oh Civilization
...it’s wonderful, amazing the world dwellers are civilized they’re as well as I’m really! with them- my language is English I’m civilized! my language is Arabic, Mandarin, French, Bengali etc......

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Categories: benin, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Time Wings
...Time Wings When a minute digit into two, three Without a clout of what to do next Another one hatches, and another one hatches --------- Hours showers into days, days rays into months ---------......

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Categories: benin, best friend, blue, career,
Form: Free verse
Erased
...Erstwhile his skin was beautiful as an obsidian, with great markings alongside his face, as was the likeness of the Benin people; an imagery so poignant and meaningful. His shoulders were wide, his ......

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Categories: benin, death,
Form: Prose
Illusion
...And this picture on the wall of my heart told a story of men giving birth among themselves in the north promiscuously... Sipping memories from the lungs of the girl child. They were not ashamed ......

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Categories: benin, abuse, africa, anxiety, art,
Form: Blank verse
Benin
...A mass of grey and rusted silver strewn By the sky god from sifted appurtenances. Preserve of ancients jousting with modernity, Behind edifice a disperse of brimming slums With piles, heaps of fi......

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Categories: benin, africa, art, conflict, confusion,
Form: Verse
Eko Akete
...OGUNLABI OLAJIDE YUSUF-NativePen 029 EKO AKETE @50 TIME OF THOUGHT:LOST DATE OF THOUGHT:2015 A damsel was born decades ago Her name is EKO Eko Ile Ogbon She is the most sought after amongst ......

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Categories: benin, africa, age, blessing, celebration,
Form: Bio
Eko
...OGUNLABI OLAJIDE YUSUF-NativePen 029 EKO @50 TIME OF THOUGHT:LOSS DATE OF THOUGHT:2015 A damsel was born decades ago Her name is EKO Eko Ile Ogbon She is the most sought after amongst other T......

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Categories: benin, africa, anniversary, blessing, class,
Form: Bio
Beyond Surrender
... quintets Nice phrase, "Worldly pleasures all forsaken." mere words from an humble writer of songs? The Singermans sang, "I surrender all..." to their Savior - humble Righter of wrongs.......

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Categories: benin, miracle, prayer, world,
Form: Rhyme

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