Long Kola nut Poems

A kettle can never call a pot black 
Are they not from the same world of pain?
I swing my Ego in one last time of my life
And i was caught in the absence of hundred...

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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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My forefathers once poured dry gin on the
green land of Nkporo from the North to the west,
Prayed for prosperity and harmony to their children.
Gathered us under the half yellow moon and narrated 
To us the...

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Let Nigeria be Nigeria again. 
Let the flag demonstrate peace 
Let the coat of arm be unity, 
Let it be the hero it used to be. 
Let it be the dream that elevate, 
Let it...

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( after Achebe's  remembrance)

We opened our book of remembrance with a
Blissful kola nut from Ogidi,then poured libation
On that same ground that once held our eyes of unity. 
Your photograph is that which hung on...

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HAVE YOU HEAR FROM MY FATHER?
Have you hear from my father, okadigbo?
He was among those captured in the oil well
Around the black river of delta in the south.
Days ago they had gone with their hungry...

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TOMORROW BELONGS TO ME

Tomorrow I shall have children
Who shall be answerable to me,
They shall cover my grave when
Am gone to meet my ancestors.
That is the dream of marriage life.

Tomorrow I shall sit with the elders
At...

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In Nkporoland, filled with milk and honey
We read the hand written on the wall under
The milky moon with our stomach painted with the earth
When we ate those roasted black yam with red oil,
And pink kola...

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In Igbo land, where tradition holds sway,
The kola nut's significance, is celebrated each day,
A symbol of unity, of peace and of love,
Breaking the kola, sent from above.

With three lobes, like the Trinity's might,
The kola nut...

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In the land of the rising sun,
Where the Igbo people have begun,
A tale of love, so pure and true,
Between two hearts, that beat anew.

The maiden's name was Ekemma,
A beauty, with a heart of gold,
Her eyes,...

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At the darkest hour of night
Before night shadows
Steal across the wall of darkness
Into the welcoming hands of dawn;
As with defecting soldiers
At Korea's demilitarized zone
With my spoke,
I stoked the fire
Sending it's glamorous flame
Spiraling, hissing, revolving and...

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In the calabash of life, 
a profound journey unfolds 
as the space
gracefully passes the baton 
in the art of apprenticeship. 
Success resonates like a fine chant, 
akin to the resonance of the four-lobed kola nut...

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Those days.....
When men didn't attempt to cage the lion,
Domesticate the cobra or try to play god

Those days when men didn't dog breed, cat breed,
Moon walk or day dream
Nature wouldn't bark so violently 
With climate change,...

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I see a seed of white colouration,
And pink pigmentation.
Manually easy to divide,
Not ritually difficult to provide.

I see the financially easy to handle,
A culturally accepted candle.
Announcer of a host’s good wishes,
Much more treasured than his dishes.

A...

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Women rush their cooking
Children talk in whispers
Nursing mothers put the babies to sleep
Darkness descends on the land
The winds are becoming aggressive
The buzzing is getting louder
Like a cockpit;
The ant holes are opening
From them the Akpali spirits...

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