Category: Poems

• August 27, 2020

  En Garde

  I am told that America is the land of the free Home of the brave That free speech abounds That constitutional rights are upheld But when I turn on my TV I see my brothers and sisters being killed My kinfolk, of Black skin, murdered The police killing us Guns shooting us The law being…
• August 20, 2020

  Yéwándé

  My father’s wives sneer at me  They tell me I have two left legs  That marriage will never come my way  That love will not find its way to me  That I was born when the moon hid from the world  That year when famine ravaged the village and the earth rejected crops That my…
• August 4, 2020

  Ashewo

  Victims become the victimized Even when the facts are as clear as water No one wants to believe Yet everyone wonders why more do not speak up
• February 15, 2019

  Teef, Ole, Barawo

  Hello everyone,  As Nigeria prepares for her election tomorrow, I am sharing the poem below on corruption and the Nigerian society. Hopefully, the election results in better leaders who are more accountable.