Best Abia Poems

Rickshaw |abia
punish my honey
drink my creamy dream

eat my children between fat-bread

Stulted pedantic canker-bloom
Your bird-plucked eyes
will gas-up and advertise...

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O'DI EGWU

O' di egwu ihe anya na ahu
Odi egwu ihe isi na ebu
Onye ma mgbe oga ala
Onye ma ihe ga egbu ya
Madu ta, ozu echi...

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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...

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Ask your mother how your father
Was sold yesterday to the hands of 
righteous death, curling in fearful fist.
His stomach was empty with a widened
wild hunger...

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Yes Prince Ekpemandu

vengeance is mine saith the Lord,
 and I would have justice for it too,
 what was done to this lady be abhorred,
 that...

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I would never forget that ancient call
The cry of the babies , the smiles of the toddlers
singing of the birds and the melodiously chipping of...

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To Chibuisi FELIX

We'll write Africa soon
from the houses our ancestors built
We'll complete the other half of the yellow sun
We will beat the drums together 
along...

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Ezi enyi amaka na uwa
Ezi enyi ka nwanne ojo
Lezie enyi gi anya oge nile
Ahabula ya ka onwu na nsogbu.


Owere enyi ka nwanne ma
Obu ikwu na...

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To this brokeness of women, the world flopped and flipped out.
How life flawed and tampered the ice of the girlchild!
How green became red images to...

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Onye ebezina na uju na oga adinma
Onye echezina maka na echi nabia 
di ime oweghi onye ma ihe oga amu 
obu nwoke ma nwa nwayi...

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There was a priest, who was a son of Abia.
The priest’s name was Zechariah.
His wife’s name was Elisabeth, a daughter of Aaron
For several years, she...

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