Best Backwardness Poems

...life today lived
in reverse gear
towards stone ages......

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...the past turns to rust
Experience is vast, but change has come fast
For tomorow the future i lust
Burn my past, for a new tomorow i must
Tomorow will i awake???, In God i trust
regret torments m......

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...TO MY MOM DADA ZOUWAIRATOU M YAUKI
THE TRUEST HAUSA-FULANI

The iron core of the whole family
She stands with the long rooster
First crow which tears up, praying, and
Goes on laboring till the ......

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...We have murdered morality and raped reality.
Every chicken wants to crow before they grow.
Our boys are hunters and our girls flaunters. 
The future is forgotten and backwardness begotten. 
Our f......

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...Being in the mind of a savage.

All I know is how to act ferociously.
Manipulating the minds of the weak, fearful, and the victims.
Beating them into submissive.
Emasculating the strongest, just......

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...Water rains the philosophies of mums each morning plying jeer can with tough 
faces because the taps have been experiencing months of loneliness in it 
gush. 

The waking of sleepless mums gluing......

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...We live in a world 
Where all things are moving
Where nothing halts
Where nothing turns back
Where all that it is is noise

We live in a world
Broken souls grace the streets
Hopeless lives is......

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...after Odumegwu Ojukwu
after Chinua Achebe 
after Christopher Okigbo 
after Dele Giwa
after Kofi Awoonor
after Kwame Nkrumah 
after Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
after Nelson Mandela 
after Wole  Soyinka ......

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...carving their names on the world’s flesh like scars,
they won’t waste their breath on the news of dead men.
if there are things humans should learn, it is how to
leave their emotions out of the eq......

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...Rise

Rise!
Rising to embrace the stars in far space
I rise because 
I
	Am
		A
			star

Sparkling
Through
All limitations just to keep
Rising

Even in my darkest hour
I rise
Go ahead......

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...Turkish Poetry Translations I



Ben Sana Mecburum: "You are indispensable"
by Attila Ilhan
translation by Nurgul Yayman and Michael R. Burch

You are indispensable; how can you not know
tha......

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...Difficult to sing, but let us chorus  today
Let us all sing  African patriotism song

Africa the golden land of our fathers
Would be exceptionally advanced in all fields
But stewards full of ego......

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...Trouble is brewing
Nations are warring
Society is disintegrating
We all need to start praying

Humanity has deserted this land
The sacrifice of the self for the whole
A now defunct creed

In......

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...Mehmet Akif Ersoy: Modern English Translations of Turkish Poems

Mehmet Âkif Ersoy (1873-1936) was a Turkish poet, author, writer, academic, member of parliament, and the composer of the Turkish Na......

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...At this very moment lost in life, predictability 
    Mind is a mess chaos reigns, steadfastness 
     Fighting with myself shut out, convertibility 
    Not through lack of confidence, faithlessn......

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