Long Bata Poems

We have come to you
Like the sun to the cloud does
Anything you can afford
Please,do,spare us.
We've been under this bridge
even the ants gossips us
Because we share the same meal.
We have come to you
President soldier,Pastor Navy
Money,nuts,fruit-
we'll appreciate!
We...

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Many are the stars in the sky
You my love out shines them all.
Ajike, it's you that paints my heart's garden
It's your smile that gives life to it flowers.
Love flew on the wings of time
And it...

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CLINGE TIGHT TO YOUR RUN:
This is ANDERSON WALKINGSHOES.... 
VERSE 1:
Why u dey loosing ya real identity?
and wetin de make you despise yourself?
na it by how you've been sensed by odas acuity,?
if it's by covetousness or...

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I AM DANCING ALONG THE CORRIDOR OF LOVE.

As I write to you, family and friends have started suspecting perhaps I'm suffering from 'lovecamia' that is, the problem of not being loved as coined by me...

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I trace my existence back to

Iye mwen N’ogie (My great Mother).

You see when I was but a foetus

In a womb of the homo sapien whom I will

Later call my mother.

I lay brooding, developing and

Metamorphosing in...

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Platonic Relationships

Look at the 1st quarter moon of the 7th
Day of the 7th month in the naked sky.
Japan celebrating Tanabata festival
There! The two stars Vega and Altair
Vega neglecting her weaving and
Altair allowed the cows to...

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Look at the 1st quarter moon of the 7th
Day of the 7th month in the naked sky.
There! The two stars Vega and Altair
Blinded by love like Yaksha & his beloved
In the Bard Kalidas’s epic poem...

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Tanabata
Look at the 1st quarter moon of the 7th
Day of the 7th month in the naked sky.
There! The two stars Vega and Altair
Blinded by love like Yaksha & his beloved
In the Bard Kalidas’s epic poem...

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(My apologies! This poem is wrtten in Filipino....for my brother Edwin...i hope to translate it one day)


Noong tayoy mga bata pa...
Wala akong maalala....
Na sa akin ay nakipaglaro ka....
Pwera lang sa pagkakataong nag iisa....

Noon ay katabi...

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I am Africa, I am man
Hear my drums, know my heart beat
My sorrow is not metered in iambic lines
Life does not speak that way
So artificial this enumeration of joy
So false this constant rise and fall...

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Ajoke
  ...... to my Ajoke,  to your ajoke
 
It was at oja ale I first saw you
Your smile that day ajoke 
Robbed me of my timidity
And I forgot of my reticence 

When I...

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To make a new experience,
once I thought to walk down my home,
from Esplanade to Tollygaunge….. 
 
I crossed the Chowrungee
& walked down the foot of the Grand,
I saw an oldman to his daily daydreams',
eyes to...

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Sundar Pichai-CEO of Google.
Satya Nadella-Chairman and CEO of Microsoft.
Arvind Krishna-Chairman and CEO of IBM.
Shantanu Narayen-President, Chairman and CEO of Adobe.
Ayapal Singh Banga-Chairman and CEO of MasterCard.
Parag Agarwal-CEO of Twitter.
Sandeep Kataria- CEO of Bata.
Pratyush Kumar-Vice-president of...

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| Friday | 12 | August | 2016 | 10:18 PM |
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~ Okëmön a Okëmön ~
|
Okemön a Okemön.
na ino di maTimpalas
i piyamaka Rinayag
Na Bacon maTamparasa
a Piya makaMawaga
i Matag Dalin-Ndalina?
l
Okemön a Okemön.
Na inikaliwat 'TdN
a Tumolo-Tulong dN
na...

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On a strange land
landed alone,
I was baffled and surprised
stepped slowly,
worry about settling
But this charming land,
Soon all myths dispelled
felt comfortable and rested on her lap
soft and supple
Hugging and clapping, whatever I do, 
I feel that every...

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I have known girls from the hood
Like the back of  my palms.
Short and tall girls with bowl legs,
Skimpy and calm girls with pink lips.
Those that have fears and those that
have no fear in their...

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Kapaligiran, Kay gandang pagmasdan
Lalo na kung ito'y maayos at malinis
Subalit kulang yata sa aral o disiplina ang mga Pilipino
Maraming basura ay nagkalat, mga plastik at bote 
Na sa kanal ay napupunta at bumabara

Darating na naman...

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Its a blurred image of my wish 
So deeply buried I wish it resurrects as fast
From those  thorns of impracticalities my bones fears to tend
When shall that day be, real, true

A song above the...

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Ilog na hindi natutuyo ang agos, 
Pinagtularan sa biyaya ng Diyos; 
Malinaw na tubig na dumadausdos, 
Bumubukal at hindi nga nauubos.

Huwag wawasakin ang likas na yaman, 
Kapalit ng walang habas na minahan; 
Kapag nagalit ang...

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Oo at hindi diretso ang iyong kahulugan,
Hindi rin tiyak iyong kinabukasan.
Subalit ika'y luwad ng mapagpalang Ama, 
Sa'yong kamay, hinugis ang sana.

Kaya't ipipilit, iiyak nang maging masaya;
Lulupasay, mag-aala uod sa lupa!
Ganito ka ngayon kaya kinakaladkad, 
Bukas,...

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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 idanuwa na...

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Owa Clement Adesuyi Haastrup Ajimoko III by Adejola Joseph 
Sagacious king
Prudent king
You are an embodiment of knowledge 
Encyclopedia of principles 
One in a trillion 
A king with an uncommon grace 
I jealous your star my...

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Umaga, nakikita kang naglalakad,
Ang kanan mong kamay ay may tangan pang bag.
Ang kaliwang kamay mo'y libro ang hawak
Ngunit sa daan kilalaka ng lahat.

Ika'y guro; Sagisag ng kasipagan!
Ang tangan mo lagi, kung 'di nila alam,
Ay ang...

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This world was green like Amazon forests,
Today like the Red Sea,
The old bata system replaced money,
The lifeless paper notes called smart cards for help,
Credit cards every where exceeding heads,,
Carrying a card in the wallet now...

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