LIVER POOL
...Her soul, a fusion divine,
Music intertwine
Where Something meets stormy seas,
And Eleanor Rigby finds her sweet release.
She sings the Ballad of John and Yoko's strife,
While Howl...
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Categories:
polythene, appreciation, feelings, how i
Form: Rhyme
A Mad Gender
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Madness,
How nice they felt
To be free,
From the dampness of humanity.
They are plunged into a different universe
A free life of toils
A prodigal,
Of a profilial,
Feeding from oral...
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Categories:
polythene, allusion, discrimination, freedom,
Form: Quatrain
Plastic
...It's strewn everywhere, garbage of plastic
bottles floating forever in the sea.
choking and burning, in stench so toxic
homo-sapiens ...how long will you be ?
Fishes flush out dead within plast...
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Categories:
polythene, environment,
Form: Sonnet
Umbrellas
...I could find in all of my short childhood,
No umbrellas around our neighborhood;
Farm-workers used palm leave woven structures,
That resembled head-gears said in scriptures...!
Our school lay l...
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Categories:
polythene, uplifting,
Form: Rhyme
The Sound of the Rain
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The rain---sounds like catapults fired on our roof
drops like palm kernels---splash on the back cover
of our black pots, Stamping the roof like horse
galloping on a narrow bridge. I...
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Categories:
polythene, africa, age, april, baptism,
Form: Free verse
Rant: Wretched Plastic Everywhere
...There's wretched plastic everywhere
We drop it here, we chuck it there
We landfill it with urgency
We leave it there as legacy
We poison planet once pristine
We now despair of polythene
We see ...
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Categories:
polythene, environment, planet,
Form: Rhyme
The Magic Potion
...It arrived one day by morning post,
from writing she knew from foreign coast.
Small seeds packed in two polythene bags,
had some criss-cross writing with strange tags.
Martha, Brenda t...
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Categories:
polythene, best friend, drug, for
Form: Rhyme
Don'T Ignore the Neck
...DON’T IGNORE THE NECK
One may not have in mind that
As we struggle to create convenient ways of survival in comfort
We are stabbing our lives from behind;
We pursue riches and neglect our nature...
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Categories:
polythene, 4th grade, 5th grade,
Form: Narrative
Things Can Never Be Better
...They talk so much but do little
Yes that’s it, for that is all they can do
When we used to walk distances on daily routine
It was enough to say things can be made better
Horses, bicycles and car...
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Categories:
polythene, 4th grade, emotions, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Baffling Though Before Eyesight
...the third floor of a six-storied building,
silent room of three family members,
father, mother and a son
the son corporate job holder
in this populous city,
punctuality, sincerity, responsibil...
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Categories:
polythene, life,
Form: Free verse
Jesus Is My Rock- -
...harder than, a diamond
stronger than, a lion
JESUS IS... MY ROCK
and He's solid
awe and awesome
all this and He saves me
Jesus solid-Jesus is the rock my rock, my rock, ...
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Categories:
polythene, analogy, appreciation, blessing, confidence,
Form: Lyric
Because We Cut the Trees
...Baked strands of air
cut through my nostrils.
As a cloud of red hung above rooftops
so lads covered
their huge mouths and blood shot eyes
with polythene bags.
The miserable trees had forci...
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Categories:
polythene, africa, environment, future, weather,
Form: Prose Poetry
I Promise
...Listen my Obimo,
A beg you note this down ooh,
Am loooking foward to see you expectant,
Yeah,pregnant,
I want to see you carrying my small oggah in your stomach,
Am very ready for the task,
Wor...
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Categories:
polythene, love,
Form: ABC
Prophet Eli
...They give what they don't have:
Leaving their children to
the lion's paw to devour them,
while addressing the ills
of others' children.
1)Wroughting diverse miracles are they.
2)Skilled in...
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Categories:
polythene, allusion,
Form: Narrative
Johnny Was Good-Part Two
...Roaming the village with black
beautiful girl tucked in arms
was Johnny the village god
Adored by older boys with
the world under his sure feet
As he stepped on his darling
round village girl...
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Categories:
polythene, abuse, anti bullying, art,
Form: Free verse
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