Fright Night in the Sixties
...In the sixties every single Friday evening was TV fright night
We preteens sat in front of the screen with friends, terrified all right
What we saw was in gray scale, black and white, but truly hor...
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Categories:
kidnappers, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Sand promises
...“Thousands of desperate migrants die in the desert and at sea, or fall victim to murderers and kidnappers, as they make their way along the ‘eastern corridor’ from Ethiopia to Saudi Arabia” - Fred Ha...
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Categories:
kidnappers, fate,
Form: Free verse
Why I Wrote this Poem
...I didn’t write this poem
Because I was supposed to.
I didn’t write this poem
to talk about my feelings.
I didn’t write this poem
to talk about the world.
I didn’t write this poem
to make anyo...
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Categories:
kidnappers, 7th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Free verse
Manipulative Monsters
...Believe it or not, their ubiquitous webs
Are everywhere; they are the dictators
Who kidnap, maim, torture and kill teachers,
Poets, ordinary folks and babies in their cribs.
They rob and ransack ...
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Categories:
kidnappers, animal, anti bullying, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme
Crises Upon Crises
...Crises upon crises
Mothers of all children are fainting
Crises upon crises
Misery upon misery
My friends, there's no peace here
Mothers are in crisis; we're all suffering
Too much chaos, too mu...
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Categories:
kidnappers, confusion, corruption, cry, death,
Form: Rhyme
The Words of Others
...From the mirror to the picture and back to the mirror
Eyes fixated on the girl she has become
Her mind floats, trying to find something to love, to appreciate
But the flaws illuminated by the word...
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Categories:
kidnappers, 10th grade, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
What Am I Supposed To Do
...What I am supposed to do
When everything around me has gone crazy?
What am I supposed to do
When my beloved country
Chooses the path to perdition
Rather than moral rectitude?
What am I suppo...
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Categories:
kidnappers, anger, anti bullying, bereavement,
Form: Free verse
The Giant of Africa
...Torrents of thoughts torment me
Floodgate of distractions rack my soul
Avalanche of delusions
Decapitate my mental faculty
As I muse over the degeneration
That has dogged my beloved country
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Categories:
kidnappers, africa, anger, anxiety, conflict,
Form: Free verse
I Searched Centuries For You, My Love
...Several times I have glances of a,
Past life in a time that is,
So familiar to me, just not this one.
The one thing I always remember is a,
Woman whose beauty and those,
Deep blue eyes I will ne...
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Categories:
kidnappers, dedication, destiny, heart, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Travel With What We Proudly Bag
...Travel with what we proudly bag;
Not what down images drag;
In a mirror capture you with some lag:
A dog that wouldn’t its tail wag…
So, suspend you shall buying a lot
For some colorful shirt,...
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Categories:
kidnappers, adventure, beauty, body, education,
Form: Rhyme
My Story of Northern Nigeria
...My Story of Nigeria....
Inflation rate high
Regionalism become noxious
Life's expensive in the South
Ritualist in the East
Fraudsters in the West
Poverty in the North
My Story of the ...
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Categories:
kidnappers, conflict, cry, poverty,
Form: Narrative
Little Girl Lost
...Dreaming of the past,
Remembering, feeling, despair.
It is not the same as any family.
Wishing, hoping, praising.
To survive knowing All is Lost.
Nothing can be gained from the,
Fantasies of dr...
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Categories:
kidnappers, absence, dream, girl, lost,
Form: Free verse
Shame On You
...Agencia
You hack accounts and invade privacy
Is this what you do?
Shame on you shame on you
You block signals and assist kidnappers
Is this what you do?
Shame on you shame on you
You frame who...
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Categories:
kidnappers, anger, anti bullying, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
The Wild Wild North
...The rumbling and shovelling
Pandemonium and desecration
The killings and maiming of souls
Boko harambee, the harem of
murderers
The genie let loose, murder
incorporated,
Unlicensed to k...
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Categories:
kidnappers, anger, betrayal, dark, heartbreak,
Form: Free verse
Boko Haram Terrorists
...Boko haram terrorists
Times without number
A neighbourhood unsettling with a bomber,
Their grabbed territories
Zones of a thousand worries!
A people in panic
Piteously plan their escapes ro...
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Categories:
kidnappers, anxiety, conflict, religion,
Form: Rhyme
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