Best Crude Oil Poems
Funny Cows On Crude OilIf you see father Ken Saro Wiwa
Tell him about me as a mouth to his songs,
Tell him that they have removed the meat
He gave to us and gave us grasses;
Dirty grasses to replace our milky meat,
We are not cows, then, why would they bring
grasses...
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Categories:
crude oil, art,
Form:
Free verse
MarginalizedYesterday,
Yes. May, 1956,
The liquid black gold formed the beginning of greatness
In Oloibiri and later in the entire Niger Delta communities.
Today, we are drinking from the rivers polluted by oil spillage,
Many of us regret being a mortal in our ancestral homes,
Because of your nurtured, fertilized, and...
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Categories:
crude oil, abuse, community, depression, pain,
Form:
Free verse
To Start Smiling At President BidenThe feeling-cheated Igbo of Nigeria
Now judges her a worse malaria,
To keep celebrating Donald Trump
While bemoaning his angering dump …
But plans he to start smiling at Biden,
For one should often one’s options widen,
When at stake is life-transforming Crude oil,
With huge pipes channeling it to far-off soil.
The...
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Categories:
crude oil, anxiety, conflict, corruption, money,
Form:
Rhyme