Reminiscence
...Under the moonlight, the voices chant.
Young voices, and nearby, the old men rant
Over kegs of fresh palm wine and kola nuts
Spitting out proverbs and some, with coconuts.
The locust chirps pur...
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Categories:
groundnuts, africa, corruption,
Form: Rhyme
Come To Me All You Rats In My Granary
...come to me all rats in my granary
I have a feast for you
husks and shells of groundnuts
but after though beating
you live in shelter without renting
eat fresh food without permission
sewerage...
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Categories:
groundnuts, destiny, life, satire,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
My Folk Song
...Amadioha the great god of Thunder and Justice
We have gathered at the shrine of Alusi’gwe
To pour libations to you
Even as I do my folk song
Bring me the ogene, to awaken the spirit of my
Forb...
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Categories:
groundnuts, culture, dance, god, philosophy,
Form: Epic
The Christmas Carol
...It's time, a tree-mass patrol.
Poverty, the Carol leads.
Who fell in this?
We,that don't have't done
Here in our Carol deed.
The mass choir,
Fufu tying gele.
Eba on suit with red tie.
Rice ...
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Categories:
groundnuts, africa,
Form: ABC
Amaro Yin
...Daughter of Okello
Bright like a lather of the unknown in the forest
Her sound thunders in my heart like cannon
My hands are dark with charcoal like the tire of mkokoteni
Amaro yin
Anyaka amie...
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Categories:
groundnuts, romance, sad love,
Form: Epic
My City
...I live in a city of a Indian state
where you can discern refreshing greeneries, that accommodate
the kingfishers,Rollers,peacocks,snakes and white cranes
Although rice is the major crop,black len...
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Categories:
groundnuts, culture, identity, tamil,
Form: Rhyme
Witch Craft
...Mind: so dept; that it surpassed earth, and ethereal,
And technology, and science, and maze of anonymous,
Whom can tonguely alter any to your preference.
Oh, that meek mysteries of your knowledge ...
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Categories:
groundnuts, africa,
Form: Sonnet
We Are Not Cows To Be Slaughtered
...One cow is equal to one soul;
One soul is equal to one cow
We are all cows walking on the street,
All souls are cows the Namas said!
Kill one cow they will kill two souls,
Our grasses their...
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Categories:
groundnuts, africa, art,
Form: Free verse
Nut-Ricious Nutty Poetry
...Most people go bananas
over chocolate
I'm well nuts about nuts
as well
Stuff them in chocolate
ice-cream or sherbet.
Yeah munch on peanuts
brunch on hazelnuts
Ah lunch on pecan nuts
or c...
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Categories:
groundnuts, word play, , western,
Form: Rhyme
Spraying Red-Rose
...to print herself the headache of the magnolia
sometimes spreads up to the legs of the ripe mangos
in the water that creeps up to the horizon
the magic-deer of panchbati is sailing solo
un...
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Categories:
groundnuts, fantasy
Form: Prose Poetry
The Warrior's Many Songs Yet Unsung
...I.
In the full light of a warriors plight,
Sometimes it becomes a case of being slighted and being Aright,
Its a case of solemn thinkings to soothe this anguish and its deeprooted pain,
Do see t...
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Categories:
groundnuts, adventure, peace, philosophy, life,
Form: Ode
Beware! Beguiling Bait
...Up and down in the tree
A monkey led a life so free
How could she be so glad?
From below, thought a hunter’s lad.
A jar full of groundnuts he found
And placed it on the ground
Leaving t...
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Categories:
groundnuts, family, hope, inspirational, life,
Form: Rhyme