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Kogi Poems - Poems about Kogi


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

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