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Best Poems Written by Abosede Ogundare

Below are the all-time best Abosede Ogundare poems as chosen by PoetrySoup members

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Peasants With Pleasant Rags

You see us everywhere you go
Every corner of your street house our offspring
Every bridge in your city has become our refugee camp
We are the people you call peasant
We are the peasants with pleasant rags

You see us at the entrance of your estates
You see us at the gate of your beautiful companies
In search of what our mouth will feed on next

 We are the peasants with pleasant rags

Our gradually fading skin
Now a sweet companion to the midnight moon and afternoon sun
We are the ones without homes
We are the peasants with pleasant rags

When bridges become forbidden by the law
We opt for uncompleted  buildings
A few of us get lucky when it rains
And shield themselves under cars

 We are the peasants with pleasant rags

We are the ones that beg for the remnant from your table
We are the ones life has just not been fair to
We are the peasants with pleasant rags

We are the ones that get poorer while you get richer
We are the ones that scramble for the leftover at your feast
We are the ones that fight for your used clothes
We are the peasants with pleasant rags

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Silent Scream

I can hear them from here 
Their wails and cries 
I can see their tears from here 
They are the babies I wasn't bold enough to birth 


Babies my stomach wasn't strong to carry 
Babies I killed before they saw the light of the world 


They were sleeping peacefully inside me 
Growing graciously within me 
Until I took the pills 
And first it was their head
I felt as it dissolved into blood 


Each moment of pain 
I could hear them asking me 
Why Mama?
Why not give us a chance to be the best God wants us to be? 


I felt them fighting terribly for life inside me 
All I could do was to hold my stomach 
As I rounded into a ball in the corner of my sorrow
Then slowly I felt life slip out of them 
And slowly the fighting ceased in a loud silence 


As I looked down, I felt between my thighs, a fluid 
But it wasn't blood, but the dreams and Ambitions my babies could have had
All streaming down my thighs 


'My MA and PA  will scold me'
' I don't want shame all over me ' I begged 
Then like angels without wings, I saw them! All in white 
They were two beautiful boys ...


Boys I could have given the best I never had 
'I'm sorry ' I uttered 
Then slowly they turned their backs and left 
And written on the path they stood was 
YOU KILLED US. 



(This is to children who were too perfect for the world to see)

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Long Live Nigeria

We have toiled for long
Our forefathers have trend the path
And made their mark
And the rest is history

We have had our share of sorrows
We have had our share of victories
Battles we won, battles we lost
But amidst all these

All we see ahead is our bright future
Although our dreams may be over shadowed by
the wars we are still battling within
Our hopes may be limping by indecisions

Our stability may be wavering
But we aren't giving up!
And definitely, we aren't bowing out!
Truly, Nigeria has had her own share of war

We aren't retreating!
And we surely aren't going to surrender!
And with every painful but purposeful step
We are claiming our position back
as the giant of Africa!

Nigeria is beautiful
and her people, her glory
Maybe slowly, but definitely, God will heal our land
     GOD BLESS NIGERIA
     GOD BLESS AFRICA
     GOD BLESS THE WORLD.

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Dear Bird

I sit every morning
Your voice an ointment on my soul
Even every night, I hear your sweet voice,
Serenading me into reverie
That branch, an inch from my window
you've  made your home
From my room, i can see your beauty,
the fineness of your colour,
the distinctive length of your beak
In total admiration, i tried to reach out to you
But you flew!
I hear your song every morning, 
when getting out of bed seem tedious
You sing encouragement into me
Even at night when i feel lonely,
you sing wonderful lullabies to me
Here is a letter to you
Just to say
Thank You!

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My Black Bible

At times when a storm rage
and the wind blows like the world will end
and the trees bows and tall ones bend
...still i will hold it so close to my heart


Oh! it's my black bible


At times when war wage
and my soul it seem it will carry
friends and family seem to have gone on a voyage
...still i will hold it close to my heart
less I tarry


Oh! it's my black bible


From it I read myself back to hope
when I seem to be going down the slope


Oh! it's my black bible.

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Lost Inspiration

Now it all seem blank
and words refuse to flow from this pen
wisdom to think, i even lack
even greatness at times i doubt, and i ask when?
often unconsciously, i sit in this plank
looking back and forth, now and then
And it all started after that sickness,when i started going blank
and some memories i have to keep with a book and a pen
All i see is black! black!! black!!!
Who would get me my inspiration back?

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Labour

Stomach,  rounded like an inflated balloon 
With jerking pain that strikes harmoniously 
Pangs of pain round the waist 
Orbiting the midriff 
Round and round like the sun moves round the earth 
The pain signaling the arrival of a new soul 
The pain signaling the approach of a new dawn 
Like a new flower sprouting from it's bud 
So does the little being springs out from her 
Amidst sweet tears and sweat
Amidst long hard push 
And with each gleeful push 
Comes your emergence 
The pang of pain 
That transforms a woman to a mother 
The herald of motherhood

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To My Dead Uncle

When we were little, future was  what we had
growing up, they turned into dreams
flourishing  inside of us were them all

The strength to build these dreams before us, we all have
you, DEAR UNCLE, had that strength
but the storm of life blew too hard
the war wagged so fierce

You DEAR UNCLE, a strong man, a gentle fellow and an angel to everyone
maybe those dreams you had weren't fully fulfilled
hope you will fulfill them in the life to come
   Sleep on DEAR ONE...

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Better World

I long to live in a free world
a world free of hatred and melancholy
a world where one is not conscious of the next person because he might be out to hurt him
I long to live in a world where my innocence 
will not be taken for granted
A world where my politeness will not be taken for stupidity
Is that world truly possible?
A world where blood will not be shed
Where dreams will not be distorted
where lives will not be taken with uttermost brutality
Is that world possible?
Will i be able to leave my doors unlocked
will i stop worrying for fear of unknown
Is it that world truly possible?
I want to live for now
And hope for tomorrow
I want a world of peace
A world so loving like paradise
A Blood free world...A world of love
Is that world possible?

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Daffodils

Wet dry daffodils
           Deeply rooted in water
           Sunken by full drought



(This is my first attempt at Haiku, I hope you like it)