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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Bringing ice cream to the sun!          
         ...

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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...

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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...

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