Best Benue Poems

Our Benue our future
Our pride our Nation
Our dreams our hope
Our home our hut. 

Our Benue our future
Our food basket of the nation
Our Benue from which...

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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...

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I wake up every
morning
to ask myself
'what's happening'?
God gave us oil in
the Delta,
waters in the Benue
and Niger,
mineral resources
all over.
Though we've no
natural disaster,
but we got loopholes
that need...

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a cricket in the eaves
harmonizes with
night rain
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old river benue
a fisherman's canoe
ladened for market
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graveyard's windy dust
sending papers and leaves high
every ones underground...

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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...

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I wonder what a 
country
Will be so blessed
With rich wildlife, 
vegetation and 
poultry
Yet it remains so 
stressed!

Naija!
My country so rich 
yet so poor
Sitting nicely on...

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There was a aseason

When love was love
the educated are uneducated
hunger was hung in daylight
when sins were seen in scenes

There was a season

when poverty was prohibited
obscenity...

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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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I know a river;
long before I began to 
hold a pen
those days of-
-"twinkle, twinkle little 
star"
I know a river;
A river of words; 
not river-benue or...

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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...

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THE  FAIRYTALE  ESTATE.
These  wooden  slate  of  grace
Written  inside  the  Egyptian
Cave,
The  symbols  of  every
Name,
Is...

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My dear fervent land of emulous miserere,
Had I be your creator or swish despot care,
Whose cloat can awe beyond exalted gild,
Then you'll bloom than grass,...

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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...

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I know of a great man from Benue;
A wonderful string beholder of now,
Whose smile calm the storm of life.
His laughter echoes and sound in joy.
Once...

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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...

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