Benue Poems - Poems about Benue

...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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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 ......Read the rest...

...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 ......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...The song about you is love. I have knitted your laughter In the coven of my heart to rest, fondled your smiles to rest in peace, Remembering your defeat to hatred. We'll sing of you in unison up......Read the rest...