Long Aisha Poems

omo-gori-ola- "often only hollas" but...
its my mic not ikenna's
aunty tee momohmutana-seems to like plenty tea more than bannnas
Gertrude? NO! she aint RUDE! dont. .. slam her
Olumide- he's only mild...wasnt dissing her.
the scribe-his drive, like with...

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If you ask me, who are my favorite
Teachers at school –well, I’d say there are six;
All of them are good friends too, you know –they’re
Like a box of assorted chocolates!

Miss Latifa is Black American,
She’s the...

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A time past the three brothers are gathered
Gathered around a fire the obvious leader..
Addresses them - the city of Masada fallen
All inhabitants have committed suicide...

They can see it happening in the holy fire
Which is now...

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He sits down,
In the farthest forlorn corner
Of the mud walled cracked windowless room,
The teacher calls it classroom,
the dictionary says otherwise.

He knows many a people,
Prominent and low,
Nelson Mandela,
Koffi Annan,
Gamel Nasser,
All of them,
Aren't they kids in the...

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Yesterday, 
Wole-ola wailed home from the farm, 
hot on the heel of his father's maimedness.
"The herders chopped his limbs while shooing off their herds from feeding off our field." 
He exclaimed with anguish splattered all...

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Do not think that I am far gone
Tarry for in no time, I shall return
So let my face always appear and make you
proud
Like a sun breaking through a drifting cloud
Meanwhile each day, I shall write...

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Aisha her strong, independent sister, was a listener, 
Very quiet in her observations, but strident in her judgement,
She didn't know why Yasmine didn’t want to be a dancer,
She constantly gossiped about it when Yasmine was...

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The First Lady Of Dark Woe-Begone


Aisha was the first Lady of Woe-Begone

So greedy for her light to be shone

Never afraid to go it so very alone

Words sung often with a saddened tone

Sweet conceit and vanity...

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Awesome qualities are deemed refined 
In a friend no one else has yet defined
Seemingly precious cannot be erased
Hereunto from that which she is based 
An echo of a beautiful soul is raised

Beseeching wholely toward safe...

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I am not done yet

Thy that is there unseen,
Told by preachers anger toward my ways,
That i would be wrapped soulless awake, 
anbandone with my full-grown-basket.
 
Please hope I am not been defusing;
My man is still functioning,
Go...

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What makes me a woman, I cook , I clean. beyond all means. It is a gift of what 
other women dream. I work, I think, I use my brains, No one can say that...

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Ibrahiem is three years old, he has no parents and he's feeling cold.
Miriam can't go to school.  Her parent are to poor, theirs nothing they can do.
Aisha has no legs.  A bomb fell...

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Forced into womanhood at 12
betrayed by those you trusted
abused daily mentally and physically
forced to sleep in the animal shed
Your escape was short-lived
being captured and returned
to your tormentors

In the mountain
the cruel knife passed
on your innocent face
No,...

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am tempted in you, serious

and jingled so much furious

it was nice with you FIRDOUS

yet am wasn't curious about you.

 

blind I was, sha:

I met you AISHA

as good as you are

I became the winning loser
 

I...

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If I could be anything I would be a reader. 
I would live thousands of lives before dying,
 I would be a princess, a warrior, a villain or a hero who couldn’t save the day,
I...

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I look at you and i see,
im not sure what i see,
i try to describe it,
but words dont come easily
its just much easier to describe how i feel,
but what i feel is forbidden
so must remain...

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(In front of me
little kids are absorbed in their singing and playing.)

I see you singing and playing, Oo…my little friends
and am touched by your natural manner
It is you who are the beauty to me
Beauty is...

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