Cassava Poems - Poems about Cassava

KARMA

...Karma that patient gangster 
Very slow in action 
But never fails to repay 
Creeps into your life
Paying in double all your deeds 
After replaying all your acts
Karma is just like a seed well p...

Elysium of St Lucia

...climb between the spires
hot bare feet on sugar beach
touch the winding surf
opening and closing eyes
i’ve left earth for heaven’s peak

tour leaves the pitons ~
on the bus, banana...

Anuruedoahu

...In Biafra, when we drank from the tilting
cusps of dank leaves and washed with the spittle
of cassava,
the sun scorched like hell.

Añuruedoahu*, the oasis of war, like worldly
cowrie, stagnant...

Third World Urbanize Mind

...Where are the bamboo
Banana husk, dad's stone chair
Mom's vegetable pots.

Where are the rice fields
Peanuts, peas, potatoes
Corn, cassava, sweet and tamarind.

Where is my childhood place
I...

Tower Of Babel

...Those chairmen are in the tower of babel again 
Painting and repainting the future of our land with crooked hands 
Laughing at things as the world pass us by.

Those chairmen are in the tower of ...

RICEPUBLIC

...Tell them we are working hard
They will soon afford to buy rice
Show them our graphic evidence
Of rice pyramids. We are self-sufficient.

When they complain of hardship
Give them rice!

When ...

Dainties

...Boiled kasha
Steamed cassava
Sell at plaza....

NOTORIETY OF PENNILESS

...SAPA: THE NOTORIETY OF PENNILESS

Their ambition grew higher, 
Sapa, blew out of proportion.  

Their expectations grew higher,
Sapa extend its wings. 

Sapa, the Invincibly diabolical. 
cri...

Are You Traveling to Oron?

...Are you traveling to Oron to be lost
In the mysteries and secrets of Ekpe, the Bermuda triangle
lban Isong, a land deeply rooted in the ocean
With queen of the coast, daughters of mermaid
Of the ...

Beautiful City of Goma , Drcongo

...As I was in national park virunga
 and I saw a zebra 
which was giving birth and
one black and white cobra 
passed by there.
 I admired their colours 
and took some pictures 
to show my kids a...

Homemade

...Homemade 
How happy we were while
eating  homemade foods 
in some  Congolese and 
Nigerian restaurants 
in different places 
of  Pretoria. 
some longtime friends 
enjoyed different fried fish...

Traditional-Modern Kitchen

...Reeds and dry mud walls,
Into whose crevices, weaving needles and knives are fixed.
Iron sheets of rust on top,
(The only modern feature!)
With leakages through which we can even visualize the su...

My Destiny

...I have a destiny,
That most of you look down on,
As being poor and backward.
That many desire to change and have me assimilated,
But I'm surely destined to be African.

When you meet me, I've g...

It Will Rain

...It will rain today and NEPA will seize the light
The firmament is dark, the cloud is enormous
The singing birds have fled
Everyone to its home

It will rain today, I’m worried
I have neither ro...

Environmental Pollution

...The release of the naked sword of marine oil spills 
From the window and door of offshore platforms drilling rigs,
From the arena of natural oil sips to execute our living meals.

Petroleum hydro...

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