Short Yoruba Poems
Short Yoruba Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Yoruba by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Yoruba by length and keyword.
Black is Gold
Makinde Adebayo Adeniyi
Speak
your culture
Wear
your language
Profess
your art
Own
your shadow
Love
the man in the mirror
Don't
change a thing
Black is gold
I am omolúàbí
Omo k'aaro o jire
Footnote:
Omoluabi - responsible person
Omo k'aaro o jire - Yoruba
You were the first
To speak to herbs
And make the ailing cured.
The greatest healer known to all
Like ripples, your fame
Was far spread.
Olubikin! Olubikin!
Heed the elders' call—
Bitter fruits are not sought by bats.
For honey— bees are hunt.
Flamboyant plumage
Will attract hawks.
Success is a curse.
Time is different in its fulfilment
Yoruba status is unique in its path
Western education isn't enough reason to activate its abandonment
Black soap is good for bath
Worthy is informal education
Which equips the brain scans
I am made unique in its adaptation
Well enriched in the history of my clans
Face of the earth
Mask of heaven
Ritual to death
Done in seven
Yoruba proverb
An old saying
Words of the fathers of fathers
Incentive of the wise spring of ancestral vales
The word is just so original like a laconic phrase
Expressing a basic truth
It find lost words
What an helpful morpheme
An obscure saying, but
So rare in the mouth of the youths
For they should be acquainted to this colloquial, for that
Old is coming for them soon.
ELEGANCE OF TRADITION
In regal colors, with culture there I'm at par,
Draped in blue, like a shining star,
A crown of fila upon me, eleke on my neck
Beads as embroidery, victory at my call & beck.
There I sit like a king, calm and bright,
The Yoruba heritage sparkles in my sight
As I sit like a winner that I was born to be,
Taking what's rightfully mine forcefully.
VICK MANUEL POETRY {VMP}
FORM: Rhymes
Copyright ©?13th March 2026.
With its longevity as that of a man,
Free from its Earthly tether
The glance of its eyes chilled the sun
Shadowing and altering wind.
Wings taller than trees
Talons toughed as rock
The peaks are its abode
With speed, its swoop and snatch
Soaring in strength
Shimmering cliffs that brightly shine
Maneuvering menopause,
My name is Idi
Awoh Awoh
*idi means eagle in Yoruba, a language spoken in South-West of Nigeria
Form:
It wasn’t easy turning away from you
Sure like the sun rise
Is your love
Upon my bed I groaned
Sacred vow I made
A budding pal we appeared
Until nature's verdict played
Like Haiti earthquake
My guards shattered
A glowing dream muffled
Upon my bed I groaned
Sacred vow I made
A wave of pain I bore
Sighting you in anguish
Another traumatic jilt
Repose far from my being
Your sonorous voice I heard
Why did you leave?
*TEMINIKAN* is a pet name between lovers meaning MINE ALONE in Yoruba language