Long Achebe Poems

Yesterday I worked with Wole Soyinka in his 
farm; a farm of poetry where we harvested words
And sow imagery like a spring of seedlings.
I kept pace with him in the field of words until
He smiled...

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And this picture on the wall of my heart told a story of men giving birth  among themselves in the north promiscuously...
Sipping memories from the lungs of the  girl child. 
They were not...

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POETS ARE POOR


Omawumi birthed venom yesterday
She won't marry me again because
I am a poet, she said poets are poor
Is my pen not worthy to buy her make up?
If poetry gives no money I will still...

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Look at the floor of heaven 
Laid with patterns of bright gold
For us, they are but little orbs 
But in his motion
Like angels, they sing
So many songs of harmony
To the souls of immortals 
And while...

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create a golden route for a poet like me,
let the embodiment of song carved itself
in the palms of the world beyond till lyrics
of faith light to ease the thought of my mind.
If you die before...

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Chuka Nnabuife: Nwoke Na Mma


(Ab? p?r? iche maka mmemme ncheta ?gb?gba ah? iri ise nke Sa Chuka Nnab?ife)


Izunna Okafor dere ab? a


A s? na mma nwoke b? mpempe akw?kw?
Mana nke ah? b? maka nd? ?j?...

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Chinue Achebe
You are the moon of Africa' night tale,
You are the muse, the pen and the mood
A thousand brave waves of the blacks
I write through the galaxy of your stars here.


Wole Soyinka
Your words birthed my...

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HEAL THY SELF O WOUNDED AFRICA 
                (no to XENOPHOBIA).
      
Wake up a voice shouted...

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They Caught Me Young


The first cut is a cut so deep-
Internalising this impression
Has made me stir and creep
With invariable precision!

Great Writers caught me young
Whilst an exploring youth.
Leaning on the sublimely tongue
Exorcised my being uncouth!

Teachers, too,...

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I have found something
Greater, stronger than democracy
Making every person
An equal player in the game of life
I have found that, that
Wields control where incursion has never made
Beaming white light in the region of blackest darkness
Widening the...

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Figures of immense reputation and popularity they were
Attracting public attention and admiration in the pursuit of their great works
Leaving behind them a legacy of some kind
But going with them their unique characters.

Wasn’t the explosion of...

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I could recall the
epic journey of my
ancestors
With palm oil in
their lips and kola
nut in their mouths.
They all wore the
ancestral rope down
on their waist 
down the mountain of
wisdom and bravery 
To fight for the
freedom through the
ancient...

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I could still remember that future banner
Fixed at the street of Anambra saying: 
Welcome home, Achebe, "our great hero"
Anambra still mourn you, we mourn you
The British protected child born with African tradition.



Thousand years shall your...

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Call me Chinua Achebe from  dead,
Take me home to Wole Soyinka' bosom 
Bundle me to John Clarks at his castle;
They infected me with this madness,
Madness of words that get me focus.


I have been stripped...

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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...

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I AM AFRICA
I am a mother not a murderer
Patronage of numerous natural resources
Filled with beautiful creatures are my tropical
My heritage, adorned with glorious cultures
In the forest of the night I form
Seeds of great black minds

I...

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What a World!


By Izunna Okafor

Tears roll down my cheeks
Beholding the palm tree I tapped 
From his knowledge of blue ink
With a bow, lofting off a huge gap

What a World !

Our intellectuals have all died
And the...

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Bum! Bam! 
The exixt of jokers,
They run for they shall not witness the coming of the Ijele
They say, "are we not masquerades? ain't the Ijele as Spirit as we are?"
But, their courage fell as the...

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The voices came louder and clearer to 
Redefine the ideology of the world towards Africa.
The white took us to be monkeys, slaves and beast of burden,
They enslaved us and made us look worthless
Reduced us to...

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The mind that opens to new idea never
Comes back to its original size... Einstein.
I shall become a great writer when I grow up.
Then I will write about love and affection,
The negative side of love to...

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It is not 
sickness that I
am afraid of
It is not 
disease that 
makes
me tingle
It is not the 
number of 
days
months and 
periods I go
hungry that 
makes me 
shiver

It is your 
demise
that makes 
me dizzy

I never...

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When Chinua Achebe presented you,
we all marvelled at his powerful gut,
we saw an elephant among mortal men;
he planted an iroko tree in our minds,
he made us see through your eyelid.


Your heels barely touch the ground,
The...

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Chinua Achebe should write a 
book  
From the grave 
To soothen the hearts of the 
afflicted
the arrow of god is upon us 
Things have indeed fallen 
apart 

Niyi Osundare can en script a 
poem...

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Where birds are two
We ask:where is the eagle?
Where trees are two
We ask: where is iroko?
Where men become two
We ask: where is Okonkwo?


Gut in the forest of Titans
He roared in the jungle and
Frightened those in the...

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deep, deep into the coven
Men gathered in black red
chanting of loom doom to come
Spiritualism shrunk and shrieked
Enchantment of idols of life 
Chanting rumbles of voidness and
tempest and hailstones and hell
Devil's advocates gathered in tears
Demons gathered...

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