Long Yusuf Poems

Zulaikha:
What a bird you are, o red-billed Bird, 
you don’t eat reddish mangoes!
By eating which ash, will you exist then
in this bower of fate?

Yusuf:
That there is any fruit better than the name of God
and any...

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As I was walking swiftly
Just to reach Bajoga early
To see what a hot birthday
Will be chucked in the day
Of 27th of the october,
I collided with a creature
Seemingly so calm in nature
And so educated by sanity
With...

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freedom day 
(april the 27th 1994)


far too many brave compatriots died

and

flooding rivers of tears were cried

far too many families ripped apart

with

daggers cutting into their heart

the pain is felt still deep today
on this glorious sun-splashed South...

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EKO @50
TIME OF THOUGHT:LOSS
DATE OF THOUGHT:2015
A damsel was born decades ago
Her name is EKO
Eko Ile Ogbon
She is the most sought after amongst other
The eyes of the Southwest states
The favourite of her mother...

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EKO AKETE @50
TIME OF THOUGHT:LOST
DATE OF THOUGHT:2015

A damsel was born decades ago
Her name is EKO
Eko Ile Ogbon
She is the most sought after amongst other
The eyes of the Southwest states
The favourite of her...

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Notes:

I was listening to some music, by a famous singer, about this story, can any guess the song? 


I find it interesting in light of what is happening now in the middle east, that 
If...

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ROAMING RAVEN
TIME OF THOUGHT:10:15PM
DATE OF THOUGHT:2:12:2011

Where from here
Art thou heading to?
On errand?
I believe
Oh wait and hear
I have a message for them
Branch up there
Tell "them" for us
That "they" have done us evil
Tell "them"...

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WHEN THE DEED IS DONE
TIME OF THOUGHT: LOST
DATE OF THOUGHT: 21/11/2010
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Was anyone around then?
Was there no one to caution?
When the deed is been done
Was there a person,was there no one?

I wonder where?
All...

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Match Thy Us

 

Pairs-the choice match;like the equality of the peers.

Appeal of pear,the reveal of the pearl like the hatch of life.

I want to hear the voice of your soul,the rhythm of your heart

my choice,the...

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Sweet Home


From the tense of turbulence you profer comfort,
from the tests of time you offer abode,
Will all the fortresses of home refer incline?
Will all the fortitudes of hope adversity sublime?
The ocean of pleasure thou are;...

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PRISON WALL
TIME OF THOUGHT:3:00PM
DATE OF THOUGHT:24:12:2008

Tall wall surround me
Several attempt seems impossible
It’s just too tall to climb

Ever pointed gun at the walls
By the men in uniform
Oh all eyes on me
Oh when will...

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Sentenced To Live,Licenced To Give



Chariot of horse,clarion with hoarse,bastion of choice.

I project aboard,my walk in life about.

On the abrasive of craft,by the shaft of the tool of want,

I decipher the yields of the fields.

Aesthetics and...

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Dawn again in this gaol
The jailbirds are imprecisely numbering
One hundred and sixty million
Or more of my countrymen.

The jailors are three hundred and sixty humpty down
And 109 dumpty members up.
You will never see vessels that 
Could...

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( In memoriam - the heady days of draft, hippies, moon-landing and Gloria Steinem)

When Armstrong landed on the distant moon
It was a wild world full of hopes and dreams.
Hippies sang songs to melodious tune,
In jungles...

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Hearth of Winds

From west to east you plumb axisal spin,

And darted on the limbs of the poles.

On longitudes and latitudes, you are dotted in silhouettes.

Just above the horizon of age, you journeyed,

Beckoning the threshold of...

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It's My Birthday

 

Within me it's light.Around me it's vineyard.

Glitter of the sun,resplendence of the moon,

and the immensity of the stars,like the shone

of my minds.

The spiritual me,Godliness to accomplish.

My psyche to conform into humanity.My emotions,

heartbeats,the...

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They told me the Gospel spoke about Him. 
I've searched Dan to Beersheba 
but could not find the women he festered.
They asked why I can't see what they see,
I told them my head is too...

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Dear Friend
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   TOPIC:DEAR FRIEND
  TIME OF THOUGHT-02:18PM
  DATE OF THOUGHT:29:11:2011
  
Your worth is more than a precious stone
So cute, dependable, clever and unavoidable
Having...

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Arise! Africa

Arise Africa and let the mills wheel along.

Arise Africa and feel the wills meal prolong.

Enclosed in the winds, the milks of nature endowed,

Enmeshed in the oceans, topography of landscapes around.

The talking drum with the...

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   TOPIC:DEAR FRIEND
  TIME OF THOUGHT-02:18PM
  DATE OF THOUGHT:29:11:2011
  
Your worth is more than a precious stone
So cute, dependable, clever and unavoidable
Having you around me makes my...

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NIGERIA IS 50-GOLDEN GREEN,WHITISH GOLD  

Sallah is just a breathe away, 

I hear the bells jingle 

Like Christmas and New Year 

Come to mingle. 

  

Summer is just a step away, 

I hear...

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MY FEARS
TIME OF THOUGHT:02:30AM
DATE OF THOUGHT:24:02:2010

Indeed I gat my deeper fears
The one I will live to see
Not at all of the past 
But of the future

The coming future 
The unknown
Not of the...

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BLOOD
TIME OF THOUGHT:LOSS
DATE OF THOUGHT:LOSS

It's a life 
It's  precious than  gold
The primary part of life
Without it, no being

Something harder than mustard seed
Substance thicker than water
It attracts more than magnet
Is a...

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Rasta Master(For Bob Marley)

Like the lion of Judah ,

Lying on the coast of hope,

With the turban of gold crown,

From the mountain of glory,

His mantle of office adorn.

 

Clad in a regalia of reggae,

To do the...

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DEATH
TIME OF THOUGHT:LOST
DATE OF THOUGHT:LOST
Umm………………………..
The end of mens sojourn
An August visitor
A must that all living dislike
Is there any armour against it?
A thief that strike unnoticed
A destroyer
A snatcher;
He snatches the forgotten
The free born
The most...

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