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Premium Member Spoken Word Poetry: Jazzed Up Afrobeat
...Spoken Word Poetry: Jazzed Up Afrobeat Without jazz, Life would be a mistake— A symphony of silence, an empty canvas, where melodies fade and dreams escape/ But then, oh! We jazz it up, Afrobeats......

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Categories: fela, spoken word,
Form: Spoken Word
Let me cry
...Let lines be drawn Beyond my nerves Make it unclear to the deaf-blind This journey of slavery And undue enrichment This society and nature Have yoked us with. Should I, should I not Is the ......

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Categories: fela, abuse, anti bullying, character,
Form: Free verse



Thensing Tongue
...those of them consorted to divide the two they sought telling stories they found opportunities to take. seizing days for tomorrow to undermine the means of existence, thus making different wha......

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Categories: fela, betrayal, break up, conflict,
Form: Imagism
Bogolo
...Ngwaga e be ele e se me ka geke ipona tlhakatlhakanong Kgwedi txe mmalwa fela gore ke fetse atla tse pedi Maahlo a be a bona fela tsa mono kgabagareng Kgopolo ere nna ke sa nkga mekgatho Efela pe......

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Categories: fela, age, anger, betrayal, childhood,
Form: Narrative
Musical Love
...Musical love Our love forged on the Mount Fuji Dining, wining and dancing to the beats of Garbage Fuji Many times shot were we with the film Fuji… We sit crooning to the songs of apala Where......

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Categories: fela, eulogy, love,
Form: Rhyme



Beware of Dogs
...No Fela and son could tell of this present roaring Government. We would soon forget this forgery pain upon the odours the land created. Empty bellies shall revive casualties to beckon the sprin......

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Categories: fela, absence, abuse, addiction, africa,
Form: Ballad
Beautiful
...BEAUTIFUL Isn't life beautiful? The rich get richer The poor get poorer Isn't Nigeria Wonderful? Over N200 billion to conduct election For citizens that aren't up to a billion So tell me? ......

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Categories: fela, 7th grade,
Form: Blank verse
Quaint Inanity
...Quaint Inanity. Sometimes ago I'd thought of the idiosyncratic Shenanigans our politicians employed in declaring their manifesto. They're quite rapscallions. Exhibiting hoity-toities durin......

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Categories: fela, political, power,
Form: Free verse
Purpose Is Defeated
...*PURPOSE IS DEFEATED* Long time ago, they left the boundaries Like an eagle from afar, they sight our mysteries In the system, they saw mismanagement within They robbed their way in They k......

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Categories: fela, 7th grade,
Form: Free verse
If You Die Before Me
...create a golden route for a poet like me, let the embodiment of song carved itself in the palms of the world beyond till lyrics of faith light to ease the thought of my mind. If you die before me......

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Categories: fela, absence, abuse, depression,
Form: Blank verse
African Woman
...African woman, I have heard so much about you I have heard that you are caring, that you are loving , that your kindness is incomparable. I have heard that your beauty needs no special powders and c......

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Categories: fela, beauty, caregiving, devotion, mum,
Form: Ode
My Poem, Our Poems
...When the sky shall cry soon, your head shall be the dwelling place of its tears of shame and lame. I will help to sing this cracking song, an unbelievable old fashioned tone, a jazz tone of Fela......

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Categories: fela, africa, art,
Form: Ballad
Adieu Elechi Amadi
...With the voice of Niyi Osundare, I will sing a beautiful song to your Departing spirit until my voice ache, A brave saint you are cracking every nut that refuse to put on a smile on face. Yo......

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Categories: fela, africa, age,
Form: Free verse
Nigeria Has Gone Mad Again
...The nuts had been cracked, all nuggetting towards the street, Many women are seen fighting in the market place, 1983 history repeating itself in a bloody combat. All the alliances loosed at the si......

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Categories: fela, africa, art, baseball,
Form: Narrative
The Rhythm of Africa, Collabo With Mo Marugu
...Unsung on the world stage Heroes of the African continent Diverse lingo, diverse souls Capture minds capture hearts Most unappreciated Their rhythm echoes Their wisdom ancient Music unconv......

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Categories: fela, africa, art, beauty, culture,
Form: Epic

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