Best Groundnut Poems

Given in appreciation
but taken away on request
translated to foreign land
but asked to surrender everything
employed to serve unknown guests
but asked to behave brainlessly
taken for a tour as personal effect
but chained for whims of tourism

Today young girls of the world
are chattels of people’s wishes

They are dustbin of...

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Lamet!

is what she hears first
him, screaming her second name
as he descends upon her
no time to process
gravity
a thud, tearing her core to shavings
Maiweeeee! She is puzzled.

His baritone dropping the 'n'
agitation
a wooden scrabble.
Nothing is left between her
and Pee, not a grain
all’s crushed
smothering their screams
interlocking their groans.

He is...

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O' Mother Ghana 
O' mother Ghana, how proud am i to be your grand son
My skin so black from the burn of the sun
For a woman to head a country shows your bravery
You won us our freedom from our colonial masters during the slavery
You are...

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I cannot focus on the focal point to equivocal, the pain in my memory, to memorial site. The night smells gunpowder in the middle galaxy to summon the smart, south to Saturn where I rest my head. The soup cannot aroma from arrow to victory...

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Some sounds like the noise of bees
Hovering around the atmosphere
Or like rain drops on our roof tops,
I opened my round window
The window of my hut,
I wanted to know
Why my sleep won't mellow,
All i saw was sorrow
As the atmosphere turned green.
The cassava farm was over shadowed
Banana...

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Teeth sans groundnut
See now reversal of fate-
Groundnut sans teeth....

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For them:
	TGIF! It’s weekend;
	The ATM vomits its cods,
	Unwinding at the bars,
	The cinema’s got a blockbuster!
	Yes,…pizza… barbeque… red wine…chicken…
	…come on, keep the change girl, it’s weekend!

	Campuses empty for “World-Trade-Centers”;
	Hey, Two nights, Sunday’s off…your bill
	…turn on the gen. set boy! It’s weekend!

For us:
	We wake to trader’s knock,
	Farmers...

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To Adedayo Adeyemi Agarau

Do you remember Sade?
Do you remember yesterday we flew kite
at the cloudy street of Ibadan?
Do you remember how I channelled your 
thought to those boys who went and never 
return home with their beds of happiness.
Do you remember Sade and Kemjy?
Those you...

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Inside the pot of the poet
Is the soup to maw
Prepared of stew during dew
Fishes and beefs crave for
Survival off poet's mouth.
In the soup of the poet,
Ingredient abounds in the pot.

Rhyme pepper appears along Haiku
Epigram stewed Pastoral with Sonnet
Timed Iambic tangle freely with Free verse
Ode speak...

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Be Great Again

Oh, my fatherland
The envy of the West
The owner of great farmlands

The honey comb 
The sugarcane plantation
The liquid treasure

Where is your greatness?
The groundnut pyramid
Do you still harvest cocoa?

You've got just enough
Enough to make greatness again
Enough gifts and resources

Enough of slave trade
Enough of ethnicity 
Enough...

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Africa, 
our 
Africa 
wearing 
sack 
clothes 
and 
ashes 
of 
shame. 
This 
was 
not 
the 
land 
our 
fathers 
fought 
with 
their 
aneamic 
blood. 
It 
is 
not 
the 
jewel 
that 
was 
bought 
with 
a 
costly 
pay,though 
many 
who 
sweated 
in 
that 
haggle 
folded 
it 
in 
their 
breast...

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Intro:
April 2013

Verse 1:
Enter bus make we go period of JAMB
Me nor dey shake cas na my third
E be like chance to take blast
No be mouth guy man dey jack
When dem boys dey flex Christmas
Momsi go cook, clean and wash
Make Pikin get extra time
Scatter past questions...

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Bringing ice cream to the sun!          
                 
dreaming nice dreams could be fun.       ...

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Fear not the beast of age, 
Now you are mature an adult. 
Thou shall hail from thy night cage;
Talking about concerns phobia consult, 
For in it, overflows river of blissful wage.  

Fear not the twist of tongue, 
Or the loyalty of those spying, 
To...

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