Wailers Poems

Value of Helping Others

...The saddest, maddest children usually find their way to my office.
I am the school counselor.
They arrive on their own, knocking, or just running in.
I always ask if they have permission.
Some do...

No Woman , No Cry

...The bags under her eyes are very heavy,
You call them her luggage 
Why does she handle so much luggage ?
Because she keeps moving foward never forgetting her past 
Her cry cries out,
Sweet mothe...

Think Well My Fellow Nigerians

...The interview at Chatham House gave me a pill that's hard to swallow
Against what some apologetics think is straight and narrow
Cos BAT didn't want to follow other's footsteps in anything
He decid...

The Single Born

...The single born,is like cowslip
Blooming freshly
In a winter-garden
Potent and virile aside
Waiting for watering can
To water it and avail coolly.

The single born,fled rivals away
Boon blith...

Sing, Ye Lovers of Song

...Ye lovers of song, 
musically inclined,
Sing loud, Sing now,
All the birds of the earth are listening
while we sing all over the world.

Sing like
...the mockingbird
   where the weeping will...

- Summer Songs of All Time -

...
Do you have: "That Summer Feelin"
 - by Jonathan Richman (1984)
Finally: "School's Out for Summer"
- by Alice Cooper (1972)

Yes, : "Sun is Shining" 
- by Bob Marley and the Wailers (1971)
B...

Whole Lotta Nothing

...There's not a whole lotta nothing
That can be dug out of the grave
Of this life's buried problems
Of all our past mistakes

You can chisel out the tombstone
Making room for all the dates 
Of t...

2015: We Are Survivors

...2015: WE ARE SURVIVORS

Enemies thought 2015 won’t be our YEAR
They opined that our progress won’t be NEAR
They said among our peers, we would be REAR
 Maliciously they instilled in us a kind of...

Lawists

...As mini-bus taxis fly by left
In the entrepreneur’s lane, yellow

Victims bereft
The grief of the loss 
Mere smelter’s dross
As a new world is crafted
From cracked pot-shards

The wailers at...

The Best Christmas

...I had so much fun to be with you!
You were wearing shirts in all color blue.
We threw crumpled paper like we’re six graders,
We ran and shouted like those elephant wailers.

Remembering 18th whe...

Synthetic Rain

...Joy and sorrow,two Skies,

Down pouring,

Tear rains,

Every drop of tear,

Bears a value like pearls,

The wailers on death,

Inviting synthetic tears,

Enjoy value,

In monetary ter...

I-95

...I-95

“Ya got the horse race
 Ya got the dog race
 Ya got the human race —
 But this is a ratrace”
    ~ Bob Marley and the Wailers, “Ratrace” from the album Rastaman Vibration (1976)
...

Hues of Our Lives

...Celebration is our nature 
A distinction of pleasure 
Activities of leisure 
In a full count of measure. 

Everybody is celebrating 
With nobody distracting 
For everyone is understanding 
So no one ...

Simple Gratitude

...Whining wailers never know when, 
opportune moments ever begin. 
An angry man hath his eyes closed, 
not a bit of triumph ever he knows. 

I smile and nod my gratitude,
to vets in wheelchairs "in the...

Tribute To Bob Marley

...Did you ever Roberto Nesto … the reggae maestro
Decorating rocks in the ghetto … children’s falsetto
Rising for liberation from tenures of poverty
Logwood lit from the shredded ash of ganja smoke
...

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