Woman King
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WOMAN KING
Every fight to live,
The strength to survive.
Other from the authority,
Just to secure territory.
Swords tasty of blood,
Killings and stains of blood.
The strength of a man,
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Categories:
dahomey, art,
Form: Rhyme
The Whips of History - 4
...Injustice is just an inconvenience until it is proven...
When the sun hit their helmets it startled the very souls of the natives
a signal upon their eyes that spoke like a siren of ill prophecy to...
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Categories:
dahomey, history, passion, poetry,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
I Am Africa
...I am Africa
I.
Distant
And lonely
I am
The barren land
Of untoward change,
The empty womb,
The amputated hands,
I am
The Maker of new worlds
I am
Africa.
I am
The broken voice...
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Categories:
dahomey, africa, joy,
Form: Free verse
The Ancestors of the Clan
...let’s remember the ancestors
the ancestors of the clan –
the infamous and un-kingly kings
celebrate their inglorious libations
all over my land, my clan –
but, my clansmen
let not the clan forget the...
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Categories:
dahomey, dedication, devotion, passion,
Form: I do not know?
Arise Woman Africa
...Rise up black woman and you all of other colours
Rise up and grab your fallen baton
Passed down from the hand of heroines past
Rise up from the grave Amina Zazzau
The lioness who hunted for lion...
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Categories:
dahomey, black african american, inspirational,
Form: Free verse