Long Togo Poems

I arose a proud African lineage from far Mid Northern, Southern, Western;
                      Stolen, Trick,...

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NEWS Item AP: TOGO
LOME – In an effort to topple a government set up to end a 24 year dictatorship rebellious army troops seized the state broadcasting station yesterday, then left the building but returned...

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On the Trans-West Africa High way we drove
Thoughts of decades we carried 
Rich history to be unfolded
Beautiful sights of trees and mountains we view
Hail God’s creation
For his handiwork is perfect
Stories of the Liberian camp at...

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many miles I have rome
and called many boats a home
they've taken many place
to meet alot of faces
I lived different lives
with three lovely wifes

the first on I met at a red light
got her pregnant that night
all...

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How steep is the slope in front of you
that you see it practically impossible to climb?
How wide is this Ocean
which seem insane to cross over?

Brace up, put your mind together
and just imagine the snow falls...

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I am now overwhelm 
Emotions stirring me 
The things I’m containing
Trying hard to hide the world
You let open and scattered
In the wind that blows our face

I don’t want the world to see me
Like this
And no...

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When I look at the Nile or Niger
My heart overflows with joy for such a wonder 
As currents daringly flow on each iconic river 
Every fountain has wealth embedded in its waters
Each mountain, sealed by...

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together we crawl, together we crawl.. 
since we were very small.. 
childhood friends??  i hope we still are.. 
from day 1 and forever at par.. 
i remember the days when we met.. 
amongst the...

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From Andover to Anaheim
Bangor to Boise
People speak up
Come on, get noisy

From Carteret in Jersey
To Cameroon far away
Speak up everyone
If just for one day

From Detroit to Dallas
Eaton to Ecuador
Come on everyone
Speak up some more

From France and...

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Long have me feet walked..bare upon de earth of mother Afreeca.
Days, passing in a flow’r chain round de brow of de morn.
De sacred drum calls wid de heart beattin of de Hougan’s soul
Afreeca’s soul ...

Long,...

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It's in a turtle soup shop where I'm employed
It's my duty to cook vomit-inducing soup turtle
which no decent human palate could stand;
a horrid job and a salary which is even worse,
an insult to my brilliant...

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The Blood of Martyrs

 “He stood aloof the Negro youth
What of his future?”
Peter Abrahams

When the guns thunder
In Cameroon or Côte-d’Ivoire
In Mali or Burkina Faso
Limitless martyrs
Disappear!

Beads of blood still pearling
Running from the martyrs’ hot bodies
I vainly...

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Rupengo rukave irwo nduri yangu
Kunditaridza ziMuonde
ZiMuonde rakonzera manyongori
Rikaveiro roita kuti muruwa muve nokutya
Mufungo ukave wekupiduka kwakasauka
ZiMuonde randionza

Kufunganya nezvaro mumisha 
Yongove ziMuonde, kugara pamimvuri
Rondidzimba mwoyo wangu nhete
Ndikati kuridzura ndingaone huni
Izvo rinoririma kupfuta chiutsu
Choti togo kutitosvora maiso

ZiMuonde...

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one day I’ll be a shining star
one day  I’ll shine my rays down on those who are deserving of my bright rays
one day I’ll understand why I had Togo through everything I’ve been through
one...

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Sometimes, me and mine fight;
And I feel like I should just take a flight;
To either Toronto or Morocco,
Or Chagga or even Togo;
But I stay and forgive,
Because, I have come to believe,
In what we call love;
When,...

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Let Nigeria indignantly confront her biggest problem,
Before it turns her scandalous emblem;
Back to life nurse her quitting economy;
Long ceased to be relevant to her agronomy
More appearances make in the world cup
To with the greats sup
And...

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