Oma Poems

Premium MemberYour Final Stand Green Soldiers

...YOUR FINAL STAND... GREEN SOLDIERS!
WARNING: ADULT SUBJECT, STRONG CONTENT


RIVERS of RED
   FACES of BLUE
      SKYS of GRAY
WHAT LESSONS can be learned from POLAND?

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Categories: oma, war,
Form: Free verse

Brayco Table Water

...Mmiri Oma

How can I live without you?
Your essence is soothing to my body and my soul too
It's heavenly when you run through my oesophagus

You quench my thirst when my throat is dry
Your ene...
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Categories: oma, drink, health, life, love,
Form: Rhyme


Premium MemberThoroughly Modern Grandmas

...Though still as loving, still as kind and gentle, still as beautiful as they were in days of yore…
today’s grandmas are a different breed than the grandmas who came before.

Although they still sh...
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Categories: oma, grandmother,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberWhen I Was Ten

...Now in my time echoes
  I remember then
  my full days in a life
  when I was ten.
We lived in a shadow 
  much greater 
  at the gates of Eden
and its dormant crater.

We’d climb its he...
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Categories: oma, memory, youth,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberHuman Nature

...natural forces, living things dwell, spawn
azure dome masks the sky, Her layered veil
magenta-tip magnolias Her lawn
whimsical Mother Nature, sings a tale

ancient as sage, sea salt, oma, gr...
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Categories: oma, humanity, nature,
Form: Quatrain


On Coining An Acronym For the Neologism 'Occult Microaggresion'

...On coining an acronym for the neologism  'occult microaggresion' 
'OM' is right, 
But might get the Buddhists backs up....
OMA, WTAF? What about OMA? 
Its German for granny, but I've no objection...
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Categories: oma, irony,
Form: Light Verse

Adaora - An Orphan's Tale -

...Godwin Henry Osaigbovo (Pa Shakespeare)??
Here’s a soul that has the capacity to feel everything so deeply, cutting through the crust of words unspoken. A being that understands even the language of...
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Categories: oma, absence, abuse, age, allusion,
Form: Didactic

Mothers Are Like That

...I heard many times before
When sad and emotional
the mothers become trees
And cloud, when they get more sorrow
And a piece of rosary 
when they are more than sorry

I knew long ago, the Annas ...
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Categories: oma, loneliness, mom, mother, pain,
Form: Free verse

Sound It

...Sound it to the farthest regions
Jesus is coming.
Tell it to the doubting hearts
The messiah will return

On a cloud of glory
With a retinue of trumpets
Riding in as a victorious king
Coming ...
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Categories: oma, christian, dedication, devotion, forgiveness,
Form: Blank verse

Ifeoma Di Niro

...Onye ebezina na uju na oga adinma
Onye echezina maka na echi nabia 
di ime oweghi onye ma ihe oga amu 
obu nwoke ma nwa nwayi oma
Jiri ndidi sowe uwa na oga adinma
Efi na eweghi odudu obu chi ya...
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Categories: oma, africa,
Form: Blank verse

Ezi Enyi Ka Nwanne

...Ezi enyi amaka na uwa
Ezi enyi ka nwanne ojo
Lezie enyi gi anya oge nile
Ahabula ya ka onwu na nsogbu.


Owere enyi ka nwanne ma
Obu ikwu na ibe gi na uwa 
Mgbe nsogbu di ono ya,
Na oganihu ...
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Categories: oma, africa,
Form: Epigram

We Cry Behind

...To those who came almost fully made
But were cut off short in life, go in peace;
Go in peace not in pieces, we care about you.
We can't fight now, our hands are tight behind,
Do not look with wat...
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Categories: oma, abuse, africa, art,
Form: Blank verse

Nnem Amaka

...NNEM AMAKA

Nnem amaka,
Nnem bu udala mmicha,
Ukwu nwanyi Owerri;
O bu ihe madu nile na eri.
Nnem bu ukwu nnu na mmanu anu.
Ezigbo nwayi oma na ala ezigbo,
Pino-pino nwa na ala igbo, 
ukpara...
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Categories: oma, africa,
Form: Blank verse

O'Di Egwu

...O'DI EGWU

O' di egwu ihe anya na ahu
Odi egwu ihe isi na ebu
Onye ma mgbe oga ala
Onye ma ihe ga egbu ya
Madu ta, ozu echi na abia
Onye na nke ya na uwa oma a
O'di egwu ihe na eme na uwa a
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Categories: oma, africa,
Form: Ballad

Oma

...Ich sehe dich an
im Sterben
du wartest nur ab
nichts essen
Mir wirst du fehlen
Mir ist doch langweilig
Du magst Gedichte
und Ingwer
ich liebe dich

Wir warten ab
nichts essen
weil wir dir...
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Categories: oma, miss you,
Form: Free verse

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