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Sango Poems - Poems about Sango


I Am Dancing Along the Corridor of Love

...I AM DANCING ALONG THE CORRIDOR OF LOVE.

As I write to you, family and friends have started suspecting perhaps I'm suffering from 'lovecamia' that is, the problem of not being loved as coined by m...
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Categories: sango, i love you,
Form: Prose Poetry

Heal the World

...Voices and screams wailing from the face of the world,
There is nothing but the days of Sodom and Gomorah
Soils of syria turns to ashes 
The world is now a melting pot,
Jets and planes rocketing ...
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Categories: sango, international, voyage,
Form: Free verse



Awelwa

...AWELEWA
(Beauty Lord)

Mojirola Amoke Orekelewa Omidan
Her beauty struck every creature
Like the camellic evergreen Flowering shrub.

Aponbepore Arewa Oleyinju Ege
Her allure utter chamomile ...
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Categories: sango, addiction,
Form: Blank verse

Shall You Shall I

...Who can save mama?
Being stripped naked
Mocked, turned and scorned
By villains, aliens beyond
Shall you? Shall I?

They came with perplexed clothings
Coatings with absconded beauty
I know we ...
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Categories: sango, africa,
Form: ABC

Premium MemberThe Forgotten God

...The forgotten god
 
Whose rage should burn hotter
than mine; melt the noon day sun,
dry up all thy rivers, scorch the earth, that
thy crops may burn to ashes before
thine eyes, and the heat fro...
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Categories: sango, africa, anger, change, culture,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



17 Joints

...(Against Marijuana)

*How many do you take a day?*
The journalist asked in a joking tone.

*Seventeen ni o*
The teenager replied.

Seventeen times he smoked that day.
A routine that continue...
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Categories: sango, abuse, addiction, anxiety, body,
Form: Free verse

Pen Errand

...I know that even when others deceive me, you can't decieve me with your blossoming ink of truth.
Go tell them what has happened to our budget,
Tell them that our budget is missing in a broad day li...
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Categories: sango, art, universe,
Form: Epigram

Who Is Afraid of Wurola

...WHO IS AFRAID OF WUROLA?
Who is afraid of wurola?
The mountainous beast of iloba
The land Of the creeping giants
Wurola, who stitches his heart with blood
In the bettle field where the breeze
A...
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Categories: sango, abuse, age, art,
Form: Blank verse

Oya-Goddess of Wind

...At the dawn of life
Gods came with their wonders:
Obantala came with art and creation;
He was the one that moulded man;
Ogun came with iron,
It was Ogun that used his iron to make paths for othe...
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Categories: sango, god,
Form: Verse

The Last Resort

...We treaded beneath the harvest moon
cursing the viper beneath the hideous act
that had left a man gibbering "Ave Maria",
too frightened to predecease his age mates
he lay lifeless on his death bed
a ...
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Categories: sango, magic,
Form: Narrative

"ajorosun"

...Only at the top of “Mapo” Hill
Lies the old but tattered roofs 
Of the ancient city of Ibadan
"Ajorosun" the second largest in Africa

Archaic modern city with which we measure
The political te...
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Categories: sango, adventure, family, friendship, history,
Form: Free verse

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