The Armageddon In the Niger Delta
*THE ARMAGEDDON IN THE SOUTH*
Blessed with inestimable reservoirs
Countless traps sealing gas yet untouched
Seated on wealth beyond its numbers
Wealth to sustain their tenth generations
Enough to feed the glutton of the deserts
Favoured in Powerful wealth and health
With the waterways opening to heaven's gate
Numbers small enough
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Categories:
niger delta, abuse, anger, break up,
Form: Free verse
Environmental Pollution
The release of the naked sword of marine oil spills
From the window and door of offshore platforms drilling rigs,
From the arena of natural oil sips to execute our living meals.
Petroleum hydrocarbon spreading its tentacle to the coastal shores,
Crops behold their departures
And sudden death is sure.
Painful is oil torture,
Holding to ransom our farming culture,
As
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Categories:
niger delta, africa, earth, environment, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
The Niger Delta Story
"Once upon a time," my grandfather used to say,
Our homeland was awesome to behold.
Lush green mountains beautiful to behold,
Surrounded by forests unravished and virgin,
Wild creatures prancing and happy birds chirping,
Men and animals had respect for one another.
The air smelt of peace and the land was pure,
Crystal clear rivers, home to healthy fauna and flora,
Borded from
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Categories:
niger delta, visionary, green, mountains,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Weep No More, Niger Delta!
Like the days of invasive explorers, your plight commenced
You went explosive with yields of unrestrained wealth
Dishing out involuntarily, streams of the inflammable oil and gas
From your natural reservoir, they flowed relentlessly
Filling the insatiable pockets of merciless exploiters
And saves of ambitious tyrants with abyss of desires
When the rain washed through you into the ocean
It saturated their
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Categories:
niger delta, hope, recovery from...
Form: Free verse
The Niger-Delta
The only source of a State's wealth
Lies in woeful scences
Of penury, Abduction,
Pollution and rebelion.
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Categories:
niger delta, places,
Form: Tanka
Niger Delta
NIGER DELTA
The Atlantic Ocean is your neighbor,
With its marine creatures in them
Your vegetations are your pride.
But the God of creation kept back something
In your earth, yes the black GOLD.
These have attracted the good the bad in
The name Exploration
Is exploration for the good all your children,
Still pursued, or the exploitation for the benefit of
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Categories:
niger delta, peace, peace, peace, drug,
Form: I do not know?