Showing posts with label Nigerian poets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nigerian poets. Show all posts

Tuesday, 24 November 2015

A BROAD SMILE IN DECEIT

I can see what the darkness does
Say goodbye to who I was
For now, a heartless being roams
His heart eaten by a beast
A beast without a soul or girth
That one which went to and fro
With a broad smile in deceit
And said "he's a fool for love".

Wednesday, 7 October 2015

THROUGH MY EYES

All my eggs are cast in one
The other baskets have shells
Rotten eggs don't sink in a basin
My heart flows like clear water
The honesty now reeks as lies
Its burst cistern will tumble with rage
"Do as I say, I'll do as I will
Bottle up my rampage, it's not for sale
See the world only through my eyes."
My eyes have turned to shells
The yolk tumbles from rage
And I'm blind, for your eyes are shut

Tuesday, 17 September 2013

POISONED CHALICE

Poisoned chalice, scion of the
Family tree. Barren, devoid of good.
Ukamaka and Ugonna ate of it
Camwood and oil palm sold aplenty
After bouts of swollen stomachs
Left a desolate lair of imbeciles
For the curse rings forth still
Harbinger hung at the front porch

Monday, 20 May 2013

MY FIRST

I had him between my legs
It was my first, and it ached
I laid helpless in throbbing pains
At his mercy while he raged
Gruesome and terrifying, relief was afar
We tussled and he seemed the winner
If he could, my bowels in shreds
Then he came with a loud thud
And yelled his first in this sinful world.

Saturday, 22 December 2012

Word Eaters

Be kind with words, mildly eat
Not with oil of the furnace's fury
For then, the tongue shall burn sore
Neither from cold's slumber, dab
It's sludge would give you away
But in thought and gentle caress
Eat them, well cooked

Monday, 15 June 2009

THE SECRET ADMIRER

Indulged by beauty
Polished in the courts of the gods
Guile unmatched, so terrific
Heads unduely turn, adulations abound
But the secret admirer looks on
In the hope that fates swing you his way
As he in long-suffering, yearns for you
And lurks in shells, admiring your beauty
Tarry no more, in returning his love
For dear, as the old moon wanes
So his love lingers

Friday, 5 June 2009

Character

These past months, there has been a huge test for me, most especially as it concerns my personality and character. A redefinition of character was most paramount for me, in a period where in class the reigning thing was forgery of field data for dissertation purposes, while in my professional niche, a string of failures littered my world. There was a great drop in self-belief, and emotions were thumping high on the meter.

People around me just seemed to be getting things right at the time, while I was on the better side of Goliath. But I weathered the time. However, not without support from people I hold very dearly. No one even knew about my predicaments at home, so papa and mama had nothing to do with this. But I had quasi-professional help. I had a lot of character building and redefinition, and today I can proudly say, that am better off.

My spirit stands strong on a rock that outplaces Gibraltar's, and my personality has been repositioned, to beat every failure that looms. Ly Thi Bich Nga and Adeniyi Adeyemi have been very instrumental in this, and so is the Campus Life team, of the Nation Newspapers, most especially Ms. Ngozi Nwozor. Ufoma Egbamuno and Daniel Tanko, good friends have been on the flanks, holding up my hands in times of emotional wars.

Saturday, 4 October 2008

AN ODE TO POETRY

Man's language in pleasure
The most perfect of speeches
Brings nearer the truth –
Truth seen with passion

Truth united with pleasure
Calls imagination to the help of reason

Caused by intense realization,
Life explores its amazement
The spontaneous overflow of
Powerful feelings – emotions;
Emotions put in measure

Its ingenuity translated
In to language busy about imitation
Life really, is poetry.

Friday, 3 October 2008

MUCH ADO ABOUT SOMETHING

Done to death by slanderous tongues
Was the hero that here lies dead
In dungeon of their rights
Gives him fame which never dies
Such was the death that died with shame.