Long Crèche Poems

The night was dark the moon in hiding, squeals and giggles around the streets 
All the children dressed in costume begging sweets on trick or treat.
None dared to go to Lonely Street, no treat could...

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October 1 is here again 
 But this time, my darling country Nigeria 
Clocked 57, what an era....... !
We celebrate with imaginary loud trumpets 
With our minds, we imagine Joy and merry 
No heart felt...

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Circling and spying over aching heads
Vultures swoon and pick the flesh
Spotted from sunken skies on beds
Where distended bellies in a crèche

Bellies moan and groan
Under attack by bevies of vultures
Mourn
Lost sanity cultures

Hitherto quiet
Tranquil
On a diet
Administered with...

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Out of my be jeweled gown,
A well-tailored dark brown,
I smugly lie down,
My brow releasing from its academic frown…

Now, I’m a package on a fluffy bed sheet,
Any flesh would hurriedly greet,
Speedily decide to meet, 
At it...

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It’s Christmas Eve and we will travel
a long way on a cold night
thinking of the twinkling lights,
the golden bulbs, the heirloom crèche,
the smell of sweets and spice.
A hardy greeting at the door!
The family, friends in...

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Like a shaft I fly,
a beam of glorious luminance,
I travel right into your bedroom
at the break of dawn.
"Wake up my friend,
my brothers are coming
to illuminate your day."
 
Minute follows minute
my duties I perform,
I peep through...

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My love crèche refreshes the niche
Where stacks of bliss
Vie to dish
Out the kind of love fleece

That my love nourishes and brandishes
Clear avenues
Where sorrow finishes
Blues disseminated in news and views

Expected to chart the way forward
In matters...

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RHYME TIME III - CHRISTMAS

The unique shape of each frosty snowflake,
tapping on the window, as cookies bake.
I can smell the buttery sugar and Winter break,
Grandma’s batter creamed with sunny yolks.

Old-fashioned buggies arrive carrying folks.
The horses...

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" No child should feel uncared, unloved, thrown away" 
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There was a time when mothers were not working 
Mother would be with kids taking care, instilling  good values
Children felt loved and secure

Now a days most...

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Mistletoe and Christmas go hand in hand
The mistletoe and its beautiful cherries
Christmas carols and bells, bright stars and pine trees
With light snowfall can create a winter wonderland.

What a spectacle of lights and divine beauty
The whole...

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Age can never erase memories of yore,
For there's an old but lovely song still rambling
In my head as I love to go a wandering
Along the vales or up the mountain sides,
Fetching flora, photographing fauna and...

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On duty, don’t fall asleep
Lest your future should weep
As faith fervor you fail to keep

Indulging concerns of flesh in your crèche
But faith fervor refresh
For faith flame to fly afresh

Now, today and tomorrow as pride you...

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Green, spruce tree with ornaments to spare
Turquoise lights gleam and brightly flare
Crimson stockings are bulging with a sweeter fare
Purple, velvet bows spliced on presents with care
Blue garlands hung de rigueure
Bronze crèche our faith to bare
Chartreuse...

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Her hip goes turbulent like an air plane
As she carries her heap on her hip
She swings it like a crèche swing
She bounces her two girls like a bouncing castle
The beauty that shone in her eyes...

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A sliver of silver was discreetly hidden deep in strange woods
Not found for century after century, compounding herself
Dropping coin babies into a hidden crèche in light of moon.
Waiting for the right faerie to come by,...

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