Long Eba Poems

Raise your voice aloud 
And echo that which taints your heart
The days of the chain are laid to rest 
And the closed eyes are made opened


In your order, our light is made to shine
With the...

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__uPON her shoes__

The best I could do 
Is to sit upon her shoes.
The show is still on,
So don't judge me now...move on!

She is still sleeping
And she wants no awakening.
She loves me and wants me idle
And...

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I feel the hand of the invisible smothering my skin
The rule Maker up in the sky 
Lull my heart of a better tomorrow
With a make-belief smile i retorted 
But the departure of grandpa
In September drained...

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Let my mouth waters at the sight 
Of that beautiful Egusi Soup under skirt,
It is seasoned from above by God.
Submit my soul to that woman
Whose wrapper soiled my fingers at the
Touch of her watered body.
Let...

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EGUSI SOUP.


Blessed vegetable leaf with
Melon roots
Selected soup from the
Eastern roof,
My taste bud is the only 
Proof,
As pounded yam is her groom
Eba could be a quality
Substitute.
Ingest and digest because this
Is the best,
Nutritionist recommends
Strangely my skin becomes
Fresh,
She...

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Who can save mama?
Being stripped naked
Mocked, turned and scorned
By villains, aliens beyond
Shall you? Shall I?

They came with perplexed clothings
Coatings with absconded beauty
I know we wallowed in with confusion.
Who can turn our minds back to our...

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Make me the food of the future,
An Egburegbu soup with teeth and mouth;
So that I can unveil the butterfly's teeth,
The palm of the sea can have a taste also,
That Egburegbu like the tears of the...

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He was an enigma, a true one.
His followers see him as religious.
Few people say he was a philosopher.
Some say he was a prophet.
Many prefer to call him a soothsayer.
Yet, others call him a political analyst.

He...

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PRAYER OF A WARRI BOY

The joy of jah is my EGBA(strength)
He provides my daily bread and even my EBA.(cassava meal)
He is my only OCHUKO (helper) 
Even without asking, he always CHAVWUKO.(help me)

Jah  grant me...

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You were born in a first class Hospital...
I was born at home,
But we are all living.
You woke up from bed...
I woke up from a mat on a floor...
We all had a sleep... U ate fried...

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Dear Steve,

My vigor is exhausted as a revolutionary with a cause
My spirit is trapped in a dwindling dream 
By capitalist creams
Enticing my mental stream

A forgotten face am I in the aftermath of a conscious mutiny
My...

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I balanced before the lord's table
Munching morsel of eba
Perhaps you called me a village boy
Is it because am not a vagabond of western delicacies?

Eyes redden 
Stomach strong
Gulping down an ocean of palm wine
You called me...

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It's time, a tree-mass patrol.
Poverty, the Carol leads.
Who fell in this?
We,that don't have't done
Here in our Carol deed.

The mass choir,
Fufu tying gele.
Eba on suit with red tie.
Rice at the forefront, moody 'n' drizzle.
Who buys me...

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