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I Know a Country

...I know a country,
With three set of citizens,
The rich, 
The well fed slaves,
And the hungry free people.

I know a country,
Where graduates are jobless with buried hopes,
In this country, so...

Categories: underdevelopment, discrimination, slavery,
Form: Free verse

We Have Left Home

...We have left home!
To countries where our fundamental human rights are respected and valued.

We have left home!
Because our leaders got money for politics,
But can't fund our colleges and unive...

Categories: underdevelopment, africa,
Form: Free verse

I Have Been Sitting Here

...I've been sitting here,
Like a famished and destituted loner,
Watching the irrevocable past and the uncertain future,
The hands of time moved slower than the snail,
As if I'm seeing from the pale...

Categories: underdevelopment, corruption, poverty,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

In My Hood

...In my hood
Each man lives for himself
Screams for help are louder than music
But people listen to the music instead
Fire extinguishers filled with kerosene
Never can tell what made you burn

I...

Categories: underdevelopment, community, environment,
Form: Lyric

The Promises of White Elephant

...This might not be a pleasant flow of appropriate language
A somewhat complicated and abstruse diction
Maybe, a puerile illusion…
You think so?
Imagine and picture that clearly
Because if in our ...

Categories: underdevelopment, africa, depression, discrimination, fate,
Form: Free verse

Inside Green Africa

...Inside the green land of Africa
An idea was born in a gentle mind
It grew up to develop like a hyacinth 
With pure water and no huge mud

Inside the huge green land Jinja
Africa, Europe plans t...

Categories: underdevelopment, africa, appreciation, creation, education,
Form: ABC

Corruption

...A monster that refuses to die
A shame that lingers on
A menace to the society
Impenetrable to bullet
Immune to euthanasia
Insulated against electrocution
The root cause of our underdevelopment
...

Categories: underdevelopment, 10th grade, africa, angst,
Form: Verse

The Nature's Cry

...Do we blame God? 
The environment was once cool
Cool enough for our good
Till industrialisation brought its mud

Growth improved, thanks to technology
Mechanisation took over all
Our thoughts,...

Categories: underdevelopment, earth, nature,
Form: Quatrain

Nkporo

...Nkporo, my wonderful Nkporo,
The land of great hills and mountains.
Nkporo, my Nkporo, whom my mother dance of,
Father died to pretect you from the Iboms.
I have not fosaken you because your
Blo...

Categories: underdevelopment, africa, age, art,
Form: Ballad

Ignorance

...In darkness, the mind comes short
Gullible to any item offered, and
Not an excuse for self underdevelopment
Obnoxious in the gathering of knowledge
Rationality ...

Categories: underdevelopment, education, people,
Form: Acrostic

Bad Banking Makes Hope Sinking

...Why Country suffers underdevelopment?
Why her public suffer unemployment?

Bad banking is the main reason
So milk comes not, but poison

Some bank men daily toil
They only preserve the soil

Many rel...

Categories: underdevelopment, on work and working,
Form: Couplet

Colour Me Black, Colour Me Beautiful

...Africa
My beloved Africa
Africa
The cradle of humanity
Civilization starting in the Nile valley
Africa the cradle of writing 
Hieroglyphics dating back from Egypt
Yet Africa brags no literatur...

Categories: underdevelopment, dedication, friendship, inspirational, me,
Form: Burlesque