Kobo Poems - Poems about Kobo

A Call

...Attending school was never an option when the empty drum echoes the song of yearning grains, trekking the lanes with bathroom slippers that awaits a welcoming party in the municipal waste truck while...

Categories: kobo, humanity, poems, poetry, poverty,
Form: Prose Poetry

Life Is a Book

...Life is a book of love,
What chapter are you reading?
A page of cheating or infidelity,
Or a page that tells of a loving prince?
No matter the chapter, you make the difference yourself.


Life...

Categories: kobo, art,
Form: Blank verse

To Drakana

...Art is the lie that enables us to realise the truth
I think women need pen not a long manhood
That wipe them fiercely without mercy, yes!
Tell mother nature of my pains behind the bar
I suffers p...

Categories: kobo, africa, art,
Form: Alexandrine

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Felifes

...Your words were hurting
Provoking and mean
More of torture than loving,
So I thought as a teen.
The rod of admonition you never spared,
Consistent though I was rebellious.
In the raw word I was...

Categories: kobo, adventure, assonance, baptism, beauty,
Form: Heroic Couplet

Nigeria

...Nigeria. 
The country of my birth. Beautiful in youth. Wrinkled as the years pass by. Through no fault of hers. But by the doing and undoing of her children, consciously and unconsciously.
Blessed ...

Categories: kobo, africa, allegory, anger, betrayal,
Form: Free verse

Get Off the Sheets

...GET OFF THE SHEETS
Dancing in the wild
Tossing in the deserts
Freaking in the woods
Cheering with the birds
A thunder in the midst
Shaking I open my eyes
It’s been a long night
I have to get ...

Categories: kobo, change, courage, success,
Form: Lyric

See Poverty

...From the West to the East
Up the North, down the South.
Kobo and Naira rob Nigerians" thought.
Their presence of mind is taking to rest
And thus seizes the most eloquent among them.

Kobo and Naira s...

Categories: kobo, depression, mystery, natural disasters,
Form: Light Verse

Celebrated Headache

...CELEBRATED  HEADACHE.
This  Ota  farmer  recognized  as  
Africans  kobo
Copper  coin  with  a  fluctuating  photo,
You  load  tomorrow’s  volt  into  this
Over  sized  portfolio,
Debit,  wearing  ma...

Categories: kobo, art,
Form: Ballade

The Beautitudes of Students

...Blessed are those that study English for they shall bite their tongues in order to pronounce 
words. 
Blessed are the Mathematicians for they shall calculate how stars came into existence. 
Blesse...

Categories: kobo, funnyday, religious, day, food,
Form: Light Verse