Long Calabash Poems

Reeds and dry mud walls,
Into whose crevices, weaving needles and knives are fixed.
Iron sheets of rust on top,
(The only modern feature!)
With leakages through which we can even visualize the sun,
Through which rain water and even...

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It had indeed promised to be a fruitful journey
For we had being brought together by a blue ferry
I had known the birding would be huge but it I will carry
So beautiful it was as we...

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Bring the Nzu and
Kola nut
Take it to the
stranger among us,
Let him kiss it and
be bless.
Let him rub the Nzu
on his arms then his
fore head.
It is our tradition
here not to neglect
A humble stranger in
our land.
We kiss...

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Under the tree in Africa, we sap strength
from the songs of the sparrows before sunlight.
as we walk to the farm, the 
morning breeze brush our 
body from the billowing branches.
We pick up our hoes and...

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My Roots

As dark as charcoal-as dark as rich soil of Africa -
Is the core of my traditional and beliefs – it’s obscure
Knowing that deep beneath my skin, soul and spirit is hidden the lineage
My unborn...

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The night air with owls cry invitation of canopies of writers to write the 
Days using the night pen jolting candle to the candidates aspiring to arson 
night. The pans and pots exchanging strong actions...

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Woman of the Desert
Lexis of the wise squeezes into the zephyr just to be heard by those in the wildness
But rather it seems the woman of the land-her ears have been blocked by the acrimonious...

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The morning started off with a bang with the noisy traffic speeding bountifully along, the early morning drivers shouting from their cars about the order and the disorder, while the loud horns continue to bellow...

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I am paradise when my heart sings with riddles that only understood by the responding heart...
I am the rocket only when my emotions backfires the truth that has never been told before...
I am the calabash...

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‘Ezenwayi’the great woman
Who lives at the boundary
Between the living and the dead
She knows that an empty calabash
Can not sink down the river
She thought the people
Why a pregnant goat should be above 
Being dragged to the...

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The story of the unknown
Has been unravelled
And now the weak, strong and fearless
Have all fled on their heel 
Leaving that blameless child in a shattering state
To fight for his guiltless life
He cried so loud
As the...

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As they leave,
They leave for us 
Calabash full of sorrow and agony
They leave for men a plate of frustration
And desperation.

As they leave
They leave for women nothing
But cups of tears and fears

As they leave
They leave for...

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Cheater into the bottle,    
His wife loved him so much , 
One day she  woke up and found his husband
 into the bottle near the main door. 

She was so confused , 

She could...

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I Have Seen The Stars Fallen

  The pageants veiled, and gnawed at gladness,
  As prism from far inter-stellar space;
  And they eclipse and the luminosity fa’e over the
  phase,
  And...

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The day I married my love



How would I forget the day I married my love ?

The day daddy lavished  wealth and fame

As he filled city hall with people and wine

And made music available from...

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We were like men on earth,
We ate bread and drank from the same calabash as they,
When the time came we return to our world,
Signs were; Our toes refute the earth,
And, we walked with our foot...

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I had a glistening dream when I was young
Bright as an orange on October tree
Near as the horizon on the rim of the sea
Sweet as mango sweating in the grass
Clear as the crystal of the...

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I must say you are one of those African
artistes that drive my soul to the skies 
and show me what the world looks like
 with the lens of legacies.
You drown my soul into the depths
of...

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I know it, I know it well
Its to pleased myself, the lost part
Hanged in the neck and cuffed on the wrist
Whilst long ago father lived at peace, he was him
And here I claimed intelligence
Intelligence with...

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My Apology 

At times we run out of words
Sorry may never be enough in -
Acknowledging our faults
Our shortcomings covers us with fear
So we hide in caves-covered in wounds of failure
Today I have strength to say...

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He sat among the broken Calabash
With a broken red lips weeping.
His elephant like muse hidden behind
The earthless atmosphere crying like a child.
His venom birthed sadness among the sadist,
He watched the parrotted parrots parrotting by;
They were...

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THE BRIDE’S SONG
Reaching the market place 
My waist-bead snaps
My wrapper unties
	
Take the beads to my husband’s mother
	This wrapper I must tie again
	For life’s jewel must be hidden
Not left to the wishful stare 
	Of a watchful...

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My mind quizzed me
I became insane
Thrashed by the hopes of yesterday
Vanished dreams embraced me
Gulped down by the qualms of tomorrow
Swam through the ruthlessness of life
With my head buried in anguish of past failures
Hail those that...

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Stop to cry 
Crying day and night
Your soulmate is coming 
Insomnia  will disappear 
When he will appear 

No more sleepless night,
No more frustration when you see good couples,
No more imaginary competition with other beautiful women,
No...

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And we sat under 
A gazebo that sat 
Under palm trees, 
Standing and smiling 
At our seashore,
Emptying kegs of 
Palmwine in our 
Calabash and... 
And then emptying 
The calabash in our 
Stomachs...
An exquisite experience, 
I...

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