Yoruba Poems - Poems about 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. ...

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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...

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I love it when you laugh and smile, At the same time, in my delight I get sad. Because I wish I could be the only man while other men are animals Àdùk?´, you're so beautiful ...

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I am.... An Ashanti warrior A Bantu dancer I am a Yoruba royal clothed in my Asooke Dancing Adowa and kpalogo to tunes from wulomei and masekela I am proud Masai Standing around manyattas, Jumping to melodies from the olaranyani Eunoto is here and today I dance in front my peers in transition into a senior...

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Young as just a week, He was wrapped in a flannel. His tender feet were shoeless - Today was his appointed time; His feet must dialogue with gods. The frontage was kind To the pews and table. The priest stood before the gods, His grey hairs vouched for his age. He opened the dishes one by each And accredited their celestial contents. Then he...

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YORUBA INCANTATION AGAINST THE VAMPIRES. Oh you Titans of the other world Oh you the legend of the unseen I rise my voice up on to you today Hear me and accept my supplication; Attention rules the life of house mouse, When the loving mother hears her baby crying, Does she not attend to it? Attend to me today. You that clad on...

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Brobdingnagian people of wealth Possessing sinewy warriors of health Brawny nature makes empires shiver City wall stronger more than ever. The people of great black magic Though they are meek Gallant like the pride of barbados They brought glory to us. Their food, culture, tradition and music Known all over the world like Sikh Great Empire Dynasties of Oyo, Ibadan, Ife, Owu and...

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