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Jos Poems - Poems about Jos

April In Jos
...April, Jos and I Cracked lips, heels, elbows and smiles Your dust hurts me deep......

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Categories: jos, africa, april, earth, home,
Form: Haiku
I Have Known This Land
...Conceived and born in the rainforest I have traversed the Savanna and the Mangrove I have trudged through its Swamp And dwelt I have in its Woodland But I only bear tales of The Montane and ......

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Categories: jos, africa, allegory, community, environment,
Form: Free verse



Nigeria
...Black elephant in the sun As the biblical tower of Babel Hordes of twisted tongues Infest width, breadth From Ajegunle slums To the plateaus of Jos!......

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Categories: jos, africa, allusion, language, people,
Form: Personification
Alive Not Dead
...My people I have seen seas of pains With series of painted assaults and Hatred from elites of illiteracy My people no not again my people For it is the same people that gives Us this sad injecti......

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Categories: jos, abuse, africa, anger, anxiety,
Form: Lyric
Whispers
...And this song fell out from my father's lips: Of boys learning to drop the corpse of their parents' bodies on the high mountain of Jos, Of girls who came home learning to place fingers on the ......

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Categories: jos, abortion, abuse, africa,
Form: Blank verse



Cool
...ALSKARE AUSUARTA: VAIMOKSENI NAINEN: RAKKAUS JA HALU: VAIN JOS RAKASTAT MINUA, BUK STRACKNING, KLO HALL. URAGAN VERSI, OURAGAN -VERSETS. BRUMES VOLCANIQUES-TULIVUORI, RUDRICK ROUXKIN, KARLEK SIDO HU......

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Categories: jos, appreciation, business, care, celebration,
Form: Ballad
You For Noh
...You for noh Say I dey shine my eyez Coz na so so wahalla wey dey shine for my head top You for noh Say na I jos dey parade my gari den granot So sey hunger no go kill me now Coz if I die now,......

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Categories: jos, africa, class, death, humor,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Name My Sayings - What's In a Name
...A list of names this contest needs But what to pick to serve this deed? I'll use the census - names top ten And express my wisdom - pseudo zen Surprised by sudden traffic jam Essential ......

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Categories: jos, funny, humor, humorous, word
Form: Verse
Premium Member Made In Neonazia
...Made in Neonazia Life wrote you and I this poem on a sunny day of watching penguin’s colonies bathing on the beaches near Cape Town A splendid display of harmony of sun ocean and tourist attrac......

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Categories: jos, evil,
Form: Free verse
Cry For Nigeria My Country
...I wake up every morning to ask myself 'what's happening'? God gave us oil in the Delta, waters in the Benue and Niger, mineral resources all over. Though we've no natural disaster, but we......

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Categories: jos, bangla,
Form: Epic
Nigeria
...Author: Okechukwu Iroegbu Title: Let them hear... Let them hear... From the hills of Isuikwuato My sleepy hilly land'e From my new'est bride Uyo To the ancient muds of Enugu From Makurdi's B......

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Categories: jos, africa
Form: ABC
Standing At a Cross Roads
...Loooking afar,the roads seems endless, confusion!..a million thoughts running in my head, will things ever go right? the sky looks closer to my head, and my journey seems to have come to an end. ......

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Categories: jos, imagination,
Form: I do not know?
Wyme 2
...To gain acceptability You let yourself in on crowd mentality With all this capacity And intrinsic ability You consciously decide the mortality Of your own capability You deny individuality And instea......

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Categories: jos, death, dedication, faith, religion,
Form: Rhyme
I Had a Dream
...I am looking for dream interpreters. My name is Goodluck Don’t swear yet please, don’t “****” I am no president or “less” Neither am I clueless Parents christened me Goodluck So if there be name sake......

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Categories: jos, black african american, inspirational,
Form: Personification
Beautiful Things
...Some things are lost along the line Some things, beautiful and fine Driving down the lone road to the stream in my hamlet It’s like yesterday; like catching birds from their nest I giggled as I drove......

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Categories: jos, black african american, childhood,
Form: Prose Poetry

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