Quite a Sight
...Phoebe and her brother and sisters loved to play, like capricious wind;
And many robust children lived nearby, like green nature, an old friend.
The Clarks lived in town, like turquoise n...
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Categories:
clarks, beautiful, children, fantasy, fun,
Form: Couplet
Clarks
...We don’t need to be anyone or anything else but the next power couple
What’s in a name, what does it mean
Well for the Clark’s that is Angelo our son, you and me
I never gave much thought t...
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Categories:
clarks, i love you, love,
Form: Rhyme
Wet Roads of Benue
...To Christopher Okigbo
To Chinua Achebe
To Wole Soyinka
To JP Clarks
To Habila Helon
A measure of time past
I am part of your dark side
To this wayward side of this wet Benue roads, childr...
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Categories:
clarks, abuse, africa, anger,
Form: Ballad
From the Pink Diary
...Yesterday I worked with Wole Soyinka in his
farm; a farm of poetry where we harvested words
And sow imagery like a spring of seedlings.
I kept pace with him in the field of words until
He smiled...
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Categories:
clarks, art,
Form: Free verse
I Choose To Sing In Their Rhythms
...Call me Chinua Achebe from dead,
Take me home to Wole Soyinka' bosom
Bundle me to John Clarks at his castle;
They infected me with this madness,
Madness of words that get me focus.
I have ...
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Categories:
clarks, africa, art,
Form: Free verse
Slope In the Botanic Gardens
...Steep slope
Elope.
Ready
Steady.
Go fast
At last.
Skid down
Clarks frown.
Muscles
Angles.
Enjoy
Annoy.
Pleasure
Treasure....
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Categories:
clarks, cheer up, child, childhood,
Form: Footle
Perfect Me Lords of Poetry
...This I ask not in folly but in honesty,
Perfect me gods of poetry
Make me an eyes that sees,
Make me the mouth that speaks.
Let me be the hands that writes,
The legs that walk for perfection
Th...
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Categories:
clarks, art,
Form: Ballad
Jealous, Jealous, Jealous
...Jealous, Jealous, Jealous
The swiftness of the Vessa just killed me,
That speed and the grandeur of the seat,
The frame’s shine and the four wheels free,
The maroon leather upholstery neat. ...
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Categories:
clarks, caregiving, child abuse, education,
Form: Quatrain
Can We Write a Poem
...Can we write a poem of love?
Can we write a poem that we can't tell its story?
Can we become the fire of the pastors?
Can we write a poem of love' song which only women can sing the song not men...
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Categories:
clarks, africa, age, art,
Form: Alexandrine
Dream of a College Kid
...The mind that opens to new idea never
Comes back to its original size... Einstein.
I shall become a great writer when I grow up.
Then I will write about love and affection,
The negative side of l...
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Categories:
clarks, anxiety, blue,
Form: Ballad
Brains Dark - Pub Song
...SING IT TO “Danny Boy”
Verse
Oh what a joke
This beer is full of water
Tastes not like beer
But something very strange
So landlord dear do tell us what you diiid
Make sure you never dooooo it again...
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Categories:
clarks, happy, dark, city, dark,
Form: Free verse