Benue Poems - Poems about Benue

NGWonders

...In Nigeria’s heart, the wonders shine,  
From Ogbunike Caves to Yankari’s line.  
Farin Ruwa falls with power and grace,  
While Owu’s waters dance in place.  

Olumo Rock stands strong and wide...

THE VANQUISHED

...Folks, I perused it in black and white;
The Octogenarian verbalized after the civil war that
"There are no victors and no vanquished."
Scores of years gone by, we now visualize
Who the victors an...

The Cry of Nigerians

...No! Nigeria! Why!

We have always been happy despite the hitches.
We have wept together despite our half-baked unity.
We have laughed together despite our different trinities.

No! Nigeria! Why...

Anyammiri Ala Anyi

...Anyammiri Ala Any? 

(Tears of Our Land)


 Izunna  Okafor dere ab? a


Ala Na?jiria ebegbuo onwe ya n'akwa
Anya mmiri anya mmiri ebe niile
Akwa ?t?t?, akwa ndeeri na akwa ar?r?
?nye ga-az...

He Is Still On the Throne

...The bricks for earth’s foundation
Weren’t made in masonry of any Nation
Benue Cement was not used
Neither was Ajaokuta iron
Part of the hard concrete

He cast the pillars of eternity
Before ti...

Afrobiscus

...This is Africa a friend to the west and home 
At west with Eastern coal
River Benue bend us to farm
River Nile march her name like
Nobles night of bliss in Cairo
She is the anchor of sun with ea...

Alive Not Dead

...My people I have seen seas of pains
With series of painted assaults and
Hatred from elites of illiteracy
My people no not again my people
For it is the same people that gives
Us this sad injecti...

The House On the Other Side of the Street

...Mother won't bleed--
Mother won't bleed again to the breaking song
according to the gospel of insanity of man:
She says life is in the hands of a madman,
she says Sunday is not enough to bless th...

Whispers

...And this song fell out from my father's lips:
Of boys learning to drop the corpse of their
parents' bodies on the high mountain of Jos, 
Of  girls who came home learning to place fingers 
on the ...

Bantu Migrations: Ntu, Umb, Mumbi, Nagabumba

...when they reached Cameroun, from the heart of Africa's West
they had no priests; they had no religion; they knew IMMENSITY
they had, too, the fairest of metaphors (no macho patriarchy):
recalling ...

Genocide

...let's dive into the thought of that Benue woman.
let's see through her sorrow carved separately,
how many children are born to die before noon?
1966 saw this on the tail of her skins proudly, 
ti...

Of Those Things That Come In Black and White

...We opened a book that started with the name 
of our country.
The right side was numbered corruptions  and the other side was numbered greed & bad leaders.
We burnt the stride of our bodies into ac...

And Benue Tears Cried

...Let's create two cities: death and tears,
We'll name our tears shitholes because we've forgotten why we were called so by he whom power rests on his shoulders.
These memories of ours we titled deat...

Wet Roads of Benue

...To Christopher Okigbo
To Chinua Achebe
To Wole  Soyinka
To JP Clarks
To Habila Helon
A measure of time past
I am part of your dark side


To this wayward side of this wet Benue roads, childr...

A Generation of Strange Youths

...The sun shall rise again but
not in our season of songs this time, 
because we are strange to it glamouring light. 
We sparkle and shine not among its  Galaxy of hope, 
an unformidable corrupt yo...

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