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Eba Poems - Poems about Eba


Ibadan
...Raise your voice aloud And echo that which taints your heart The days of the chain are laid to rest And the closed eyes are made opened In your order, our light is made to shine With the s......

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Categories: eba, africa, best friend, courage,
Form: Blank verse
Life
...You were born in a first class Hospital... I was born at home, But we are all living. You woke up from bed... I woke up from a mat on a floor... We all had a sleep... U ate fried rice... I ate ......

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Categories: eba, city, community, home, hope,
Form: Blank verse



The Christmas Carol
...It's time, a tree-mass patrol. Poverty, the Carol leads. Who fell in this? We,that don't have't done Here in our Carol deed. The mass choir, Fufu tying gele. Eba on suit with red tie. Rice ......

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Categories: eba, africa,
Form: ABC
Shall You Shall I
...Who can save mama? Being stripped naked Mocked, turned and scorned By villains, aliens beyond Shall you? Shall I? They came with perplexed clothings Coatings with absconded beauty I know we ......

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Categories: eba, africa,
Form: ABC
Egburegbu With Teeth
...Make me the food of the future, An Egburegbu soup with teeth and mouth; So that I can unveil the butterfly's teeth, The palm of the sea can have a taste also, That Egburegbu like the tears of the......

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Categories: eba, africa, art,
Form: Free verse



Egusi Soup, My Love
...Let my mouth waters at the sight Of that beautiful Egusi Soup under skirt, It is seasoned from above by God. Submit my soul to that woman Whose wrapper soiled my fingers at the Touch of her wat......

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Categories: eba, africa, art,
Form: Free verse
Prayer of a Warri Boy
...PRAYER OF A WARRI BOY The joy of jah is my EGBA(strength) He provides my daily bread and even my EBA.(cassava meal) He is my only OCHUKO (helper) Even without asking, he always CHAVWUKO.(help ......

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Categories: eba, prayer, religion, boy,
Form: Rhyme
Silly Pendulum
...__uPON her shoes__ The best I could do Is to sit upon her shoes. The show is still on, So don't judge me now...move on! She is still sleeping And she wants no awakening. She loves me and wants me ......

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Categories: eba, baby, childhood, children, first
Form: Rhyme
A Letter To Steve
...Dear Steve, My vigor is exhausted as a revolutionary with a cause My spirit is trapped in a dwindling dream By capitalist creams Enticing my mental stream A forgotten face am I in the aftermath of......

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Categories: eba, freedom, history, political, tribute,
Form: Epitaph
Egusi Soup
...EGUSI SOUP. Blessed vegetable leaf with Melon roots Selected soup from the Eastern roof, My taste bud is the only Proof, As pounded yam is her groom Eba could be a quality Substitute. ......

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Categories: eba, art
Form: Ballade
Big City New Years Eva Party
...it s a crowed thats loud this night under city lights corlor white some blue too they waith for the cue the count down and the sound of the falling ball from the tall wall and some come an......

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Categories: eba, adventure, fantasy, new years
Form: Light Verse
It Was In September
...I feel the hand of the invisible smothering my skin The rule Maker up in the sky Lull my heart of a better tomorrow With a make-belief smile i retorted But the departure of grandpa In September dra......

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Categories: eba, loss, rain, rain,
Form: Elegy
Black
...I balanced before the lord's table Munching morsel of eba Perhaps you called me a village boy Is it because am not a vagabond of western delicacies? Eyes redden Stomach strong Gulping down an ocean......

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Categories: eba, people, me, me, ,
Form: I do not know?
The Legend Lives
...He was an enigma, a true one. His followers see him as religious. Few people say he was a philosopher. Some say he was a prophet. Many prefer to call him a soothsayer. Yet, others call him a pol......

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Categories: eba, inspirational, life, loss,
Form: Lyric

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