Encourage Yourself
...I had him reserved superb name
Simply to awaken the flame:
Grey Floyd proclaim “Never to fall”
This saying in Reception Hall
For Praised Artists’ Exhibition
That should address Inhibition
A cri...
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Categories:
efik, art, devotion, imagination, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
Motherafrica
...The efik/ibibio people might call her ADIAHA
THE IGBO'S calls her Ada
A true born African
her hips seals lips
for a thousand words are wrapped around her waist... And
Her chest carries a mounta...
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Categories:
efik, africa,
Form: Epic
I May Know Thee
...I MAY KNOW THEE
Your way shall I go night and day,
Tending your sheep in my court.
In the field of my heart shall the
Drum of music sound to praise the dust
Of my being in a meekness of my heart...
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Categories:
efik, africa, art,
Form: Ballad
Unity In Cultural Diversity
...The westerners eat Amala and Ewedu
We eat Akpo and Ofe Nsala
They dance Juju and Apala
We dance bongo and atilogwu the beat of life.
T^he Northerners speaks hausa whilst we speak igbo
They marri...
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Categories:
efik, art, beautiful, , western,
Form: Free verse