The Song of a Poet
...The Song Of A Poet
(Dedicated To Amirah Akilu)
The song of the rain
Preaching us to farm
And be workaholics!
The song from the stream
Administer us to refresh our life
For being good and...
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Categories:
thatches, hyperbole,
Form: Didactic
This Isn'T Poetry
...if I could trace back
to that period
before it all started
some hundreds shameful years ago
when, under thatch great men
with courageous minds were made
Days,
when we aim neither
for fanc...
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Categories:
thatches, africa,
Form: Free verse
Less Drought By Words
...The hoi polloi were inquisitive of pelting
Forage famine and began to shrivelling
Drought blanket and upon the entire bush
The thatches restored ramshackle to meagre
And starvation startling the ...
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Categories:
thatches, absence, allah,
Form: Free verse
One Thousand Naira
...One thousand naira
For one thousand dreams
One thousand hopes
Punctured by one thousand spears
For one thousand naira
One thousand faces
Queued up in one thousand war-ds
For one thousand r...
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Categories:
thatches, beautiful,
Form: Lyric
March Winds
...Spring is on the distant horizon, another month has gone, now just a memory
Seasons flow seamlessly, path's of time seem faster, now in my golden years
The month of March is vigorous and piping, the ...
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Categories:
thatches, nature, time, winter, march,
Form: Prose Poetry
Birds Try Walking
...By Ombuge Moses
The river is dry
Plant weathered
Dry for wood
Wood for fire
The ground dusty
Bear feet women weak
Children loud cry
Wail in pain
Music has stopped
Dance no more
Rhythmic lost
The an...
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Categories:
thatches, art, mystery, peace, river,
Form: Lyric
Time For a Vacation
...TIME FOR A VACATION
It is my wife’s lifelong dream, a fairytale place a magic land :
The small village of Rye in Sussex , in southern England.
This is the heart of England, its bosom -
Fi...
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Categories:
thatches, holiday
Form: Couplet
Sweet Sorrow
...There is nothing more gladdening
Than sorrow at parting-leaving the villege
Though my loosening mat i'll miss
No more owl or the snake hiss
In the jungle greenery resides
Thatches on our house c...
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Categories:
thatches, adventure, happiness, hope,
Form: Monorhyme