Genocide
...let's dive into the thought of that Benue woman.
let's see through her sorrow carved separately,
how many children are born to die before noon?
1966 saw this on the tail of her skins proudly,
ti...
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Categories:
kogi, abuse, anger,
Form: Blank verse
Wet Roads of Benue
...To Christopher Okigbo
To Chinua Achebe
To Wole Soyinka
To JP Clarks
To Habila Helon
A measure of time past
I am part of your dark side
To this wayward side of this wet Benue roads, childr...
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Categories:
kogi, abuse, africa, anger,
Form: Ballad
A Generation of Strange Youths
...The sun shall rise again but
not in our season of songs this time,
because we are strange to it glamouring light.
We sparkle and shine not among its Galaxy of hope,
an unformidable corrupt yo...
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Categories:
kogi, abuse, adventure, africa, anxiety,
Form: Bio
The Santa Claus Departs
...We never saw it coming
but it came
like the sound of the trumpet
heralding the doomsday-
that day, dark as the night
bereft of moon and stars,
that announced your departure.
You were a priest
that sa...
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Categories:
kogi, death, world,
Form: Free verse
Ogori-Magongo
...This is Ogori-Magongo,
a land of many hills
towering high
above houses and
farmlands
scattered about
like cowries cast
on a diviner's tray.
Ogori-Magongo,the land
where gunshots herald
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Categories:
kogi, people,
Form: Free verse
An Eternal Brain Fart
...A few will be handed over
For millions washed dirt poor,
Dirt brown, stained like urban
Jungles in Detroit, Memphis,
And New Orleans.
An Xbox is my ex-wife,
Frivolous and expensive.
Some folks are t...
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Categories:
kogi, inspirational, life, political,
Form: Free verse