Best Achiever Poems

If you know your history you know that the black achiever is one, 

Step down from the NAACP for youth student in high school,

My mom said now a days they are doing remarkable things,

At the time I was there we did not have a local...

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“Agha Ojadili” 
(The Great Achiever)

Dance steps reverberate in the square
We celebrate a feasting festival
A special festival of achievement
Albeit of a silent kind

Animated bodies writhe in rhythm
To ecstatic drumbeats and “udu”
The “oja”, reeling out praise names
Of none other than the achiever’s

Failure it says, is orphaned
But success,...

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Belated achiever’s life’s sad: 
The Joneses have their cars,
Philips own their regular pay
And Alexes are with the stars. 

You shed a tear in the day,
And brave such sundry fights
As the Bensons placidly snore
Away their magnificent nights. 

Divine clemency that tarries yet 
Is your lingering wobbling...

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I hesitate to tell the word then particularly                            But I welcome the watch word now regularly.  ...

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