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Groundnut Poems - Poems about Groundnut


E Come Be Like
...Intro: April 2013 Verse 1: Enter bus make we go period of JAMB Me nor dey shake cas na my third E be like chance to take blast No be mouth guy man dey jack When dem boys dey flex Christmas ......

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Categories: groundnut, depression, emotions, heartbroken, mystery,
Form: Lyric
More Holding, Hearty Holawale Safiu
...Fear not the beast of age, Now you are mature an adult. Thou shall hail from thy night cage; Talking about concerns phobia consult, For in it, overflows river of blissful wage. Fear not t......

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Categories: groundnut, africa, age, anniversary, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme



Lamet
...Lamet! is what she hears first him, screaming her second name as he descends upon her no time to process gravity a thud, tearing her core to shavings Maiweeeee! She is puzzled. His barito......

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Categories: groundnut, africa, allegory, pain, word
Form: Free verse
Be Great Again
...Be Great Again Oh, my fatherland The envy of the West The owner of great farmlands The honey comb The sugarcane plantation The liquid treasure Where is your greatness? The groundnut py......

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Categories: groundnut, desire, faith,
Form: Blank verse
World Apart In One
...For them: TGIF! It’s weekend; The ATM vomits its cods, Unwinding at the bars, The cinema’s got a blockbuster! Yes,…pizza… barbeque… red wine…chicken… …come on, keep the change girl, it’s ......

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Categories: groundnut, destiny, fate, irony, people,
Form: Dramatic Verse



O' Mother Ghana
...O' Mother Ghana O' mother Ghana, how proud am i to be your grand son My skin so black from the burn of the sun For a woman to head a country shows your bravery You won us our freedom from our co......

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Categories: groundnut, africa,
Form: Personification
Bringing Ice Cream To the Sun
...Bringing ice cream to the sun! dreaming nice dreams could be fun. Visions plausible yet seemingly unatainable. ..bringing ice cream to t......

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Categories: groundnut, april, life,
Form: ABC
Corruption Crusader
...I cannot focus on the focal point to equivocal, the pain in my memory, to memorial site. The night smells gunpowder in the middle galaxy to summon the smart, south to Saturn where I rest my head. The......

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Categories: groundnut, hip hop, poverty, prejudice,
Form: Political Verse
Chattels
...Given in appreciation but taken away on request translated to foreign land but asked to surrender everything employed to serve unknown guests but asked to behave brainlessly taken for a tour as......

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Categories: groundnut, irony, woman,
Form: Free verse
Longing Thought
...To Adedayo Adeyemi Agarau Do you remember Sade? Do you remember yesterday we flew kite at the cloudy street of Ibadan? Do you remember how I channelled your thought to those boys who went and......

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Categories: groundnut, art,
Form: Didactic
Reversal of Fate
...Teeth sans groundnut See now reversal of fate- Groundnut sans teeth.......

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Categories: groundnut, philosophy, , fate,
Form: Haiku
A New Africa
...Africa, our Africa wearing sack clothes and ashes of shame. This was not the land our fathers fought with their aneamic blood. It is not the jewel ......

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Categories: groundnut, tribute
Form: Free verse
Mourning Over the Locust Plaque
...Some sounds like the noise of bees Hovering around the atmosphere Or like rain drops on our roof tops, I opened my round window The window of my hut, I wanted to know Why my sleep won't mellow,......

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Categories: groundnut, confusion, depression, mystery, natural
Form: Narrative
Pot of the Poet
...Inside the pot of the poet Is the soup to maw Prepared of stew during dew Fishes and beefs crave for Survival off poet's mouth. In the soup of the poet, Ingredient abounds in the pot. Rhyme ......

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Categories: groundnut, allegory, art, imagination, life,
Form: Free verse

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