Long Kidnappers Poems

As October 1 approaches, HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY……………………
I have enormous tracts of land and vast volumes of water, but cannot feed myself.
So I spend $1 billion to import rice and another $2 billion on milk.
I produce...

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Crises upon crises
Mothers of all children are fainting
Crises upon crises
Misery upon misery
My friends, there's no peace here
Mothers are in crisis; we're all suffering
Too much chaos, too much havoc
Suffering upon suffering
Too many crimes to solve and...

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*Author's note. I wrote this after watching the 2004 movie man on fire and wrote the feelings that I felt the main character Creasy had throughout the movie. Enjoy :)

I was in the deepest darkness
Hands...

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I didn’t write this poem 
Because I was supposed to.
I didn’t write this poem
to talk about my feelings.
I didn’t write this poem
to talk about the world.
I didn’t write this poem
to make anyone cry
or laugh
or scream
Or...

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Justice howls like barking dogs chasing down the hollow street
Justice flows the same way blood gushes down his trembling feet
Justice echoes blatantly through woodlands and valleys 
Ringing upon roof tops progressing door to door
And crying...

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Kick against indiscipline; they say,
But they kick against our income;
Kick against the youth's progress,
Kick against the future of our futures,
Kick against the heart that tend good
Rather than kicking against indiscipline.
We still have prostitutes in our...

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Believe it or not, their ubiquitous webs
Are everywhere; they are the dictators
Who kidnap, maim, torture and kill teachers,
Poets, ordinary folks and babies in their cribs.
They rob and ransack innocent citizens,
Steal elections and after a lifetime...

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I lollygag as much as I can
As I travel from meadow to prairie
Grandma packs me a lunch
Knowing she will not see me for hours
It is 1960. She is not frightened I will be found dead
Kidnappers...

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Waking up from my sleep. I step outside to check the
mail. I get a postcard of a missing child...the trend 
seems to never fail.

Julie was abducted at a park. It's been a long 18 years
now....

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My Story of Nigeria.... 
Inflation rate high 
Regionalism become noxious 
Life's expensive in the South
Ritualist in the East  
Fraudsters in the West 
Poverty in the North 

My Story of the North... 
Bandit and kidnappers...

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Dreaming of the past,
Remembering, feeling, despair.
It is not the same as any family.
Wishing, hoping, praising.
To survive knowing All is Lost.
Nothing can be gained from the,
Fantasies of dreaming of a,
Family we can never have.
Overheard conversations,
" You...

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Several times I have glances of a,
Past life in a time that is,
So familiar to me, just not this one.
The one thing I always remember is a,
Woman whose beauty and those,
Deep blue eyes I will...

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Birches took a vote after the child left the forest
Next time, two wanted to capture her, to keep her always
Ninety-six others voted this was wrong.
The magical birch had a new idea.

Let me create a phantom...

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As we speak,
My children and I are famished 
Our fireplace is cold
Our pots are empty 
It is may, but it feels like December 
Our thatched roof is covered with mud
And our barns ravaged by corruption...

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Boko haram terrorists

Times without number
A neighbourhood unsettling with a bomber,
Their grabbed territories
Zones of a thousand worries!

A people in panic
Piteously plan their escapes route,
Their pursuers, a manic,
Who must them funnily shoot!

It’s a horizon of unthinkable sleep
And...

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What I am supposed to do
When everything around  me has gone crazy?
What am I supposed to do
When my beloved country 
Chooses the path to perdition 
Rather than moral rectitude?
What am I supposed to do
When...

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Guys eyeing a staggering ransom
And willing to unleash the gruesome
The senders to follow their uncomfortable instructions
Or get ready for the unpleasant ructions.

In a matter of minutes gagging protesting lips
On disobedient backs landing punitive whips
A chaining...

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DEMON-CRACY

They all drink a bottle of champagne,
Fake promise during campaign..
They meet at the same venue,
While corruption is serve as their menu..

Dancing to the songs of shame,
Politicians now plays us like a game..
Our dreams can no...

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Torrents of thoughts torment me
Floodgate of distractions rack my soul
Avalanche of delusions 
Decapitate my mental faculty 
As I muse over the degeneration 
That has dogged my beloved country 

She manifests every aspect
Of a failed state
The...

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My kidnappers grabbed me and brought me outside
cold, shackled and shivering I watched them with surreal eyesight
shoveling till they dug a grave six foot deep
they laid me in the pine coffin and placed me in...

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Her eyes leak and her mouth sobs
Her heart beats to the rhythm of the drums
Her leg shivers and her hands weak
On the actuality that a cankerworm has eaten deep

What an absolute notion of melancholy
A disgrace...

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Agencia
You hack accounts and invade privacy
Is this what you do?
Shame on you shame on you
You block signals and assist kidnappers
Is this what you do?
Shame on you shame on you
You frame who you want?
You plant blasphemous...

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Earths proceedings 
And stars are witnesses 
Gods the judge, planets spin the tables
From planes to spheres... bang!
They collide like the judges hammer
Knocking, "order in the court"
Morning strikes we all rise,
"So let the subjects speak"...!
Court assemblies...

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Nigeria of my dream
Where brothers shall
kill not his
brother.
The green snake
under the green
grass reveal, 
Smiles welcome us to
their domain.
To those who fatten
themselves on murder

And measure the
stage of their reign
by corpse 
Ambassador of
poverty they are, 
They shall...

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Driving on blacktop, eyes lighting my way.
A big bright ball follows, alongside the freeway.

He’s bouncing along nonchalantly without a care.
I tried to outrun him but, he is still there!
 
The huge luminous ball suddenly disappears!
Sinister...

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