I CHOSE
...I chose to write,
For all those torn-off branches,
For all those scarred backs,
For all those dehumanized bodies,
For all those centuries of persecution.
I chose to read,
To decon...
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Categories:
westernization, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
OUR CULTURE
...Once stood so grand
Like Kilimanjaro against the sky
Our way of life
A beacon, a guiding light, a brand
As children, we grew up in its embrace
We imbibed its wisdom
Mimicked the gestures
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Categories:
westernization, 12th grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Narrative
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:
westernization, africa,
Form: Free verse
I Cant Write Nuttin On a Full Stomach
...I can't write nuttin' worth a damn on a full stomach!
Hunger pangs fuel mine poetic juices,
yours truly moost best be famished
resembling lovely bag of bones
beyond irreparable damage
wrought ...
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Categories:
westernization, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Struggle To Write
...prosaic prologues bewitch
feeble minded scribe doth undertakes
tend toward lugubriousness ring tone
for goodness sake
echoing across,
a figurative lake woebegone, where quake
shu...
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Categories:
westernization, assonance, autumn, creation, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
A Form of Rule
...The nervous chatter
The haunted stares
The muted prayers
Their motherland
Totters all about
Democracy gone bad
Democracy a tool
Of elites to amass..
Power with a guise
Of legitimate rule.....
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Categories:
westernization, africa, humanity, meaningful, political,
Form: Prose Poetry
Silent Whisper
...There, they are with their scary galaxy of thoughts!
Those that wanted us to sing those songs they never
sang with the moon and the sun.
Those that wanted us to dance the dance they
never dance...
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Categories:
westernization, abuse, africa, age, art,
Form: Ballad
We Didn'T Care Nigerian Citizens
...The attitude that means great scare
And birth sufferings we couldn't bear
Thank God he's sick, we pray he lacks care
Centuries of "didn't care" land us in misery we now wear
We didn't care if ...
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Categories:
westernization, africa, community, deep, leadership,
Form: ABC
For Eunice Jossy
...The song about you is love.
I have knitted your laughter
In the coven of my heart to rest,
fondled your smiles to rest in peace,
Remembering your defeat to hatred.
We'll sing of you in unison up...
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Categories:
westernization, best friend, birth, birthday,
Form: Bio
Change
...Colonialism,
Neo-colonialism.
Independence,
Donor dependence.
Westernization,
Modernization.
Feminism,
Gender equality.
Gay rights,
Human rights.
Murder,
Abortion.
Nothing has...
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Categories:
westernization, irony, poetry, , western,
Form: I do not know?
Imagination.
...Congradtulation on creation & salvation while the congregation gives explanation
of our nation as education to this foundation as frustration rocks the situation
and the vibration gives separation...
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Categories:
westernization, introspection, visionary, education, ,
Form: Acrostic