Long Ara Poems

   Symbols cry in dry ice theater -
the expanse of aesthetic visa-
drawn-
from the romance of the silvery eye -
as it golden advances the lid of covenance 
in dynamic enzyme.
Open faced type interpreted-
interpreter-embossed embol-
in...

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"You know this frigging tooth has been giving trouble since 1918 I can go on no 
longer. For as long as my Name is Mark by God it's coming out bfore the night. I'll go...

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EKO @50
TIME OF THOUGHT:LOSS
DATE OF THOUGHT:2015
A damsel was born decades ago
Her name is EKO
Eko Ile Ogbon
She is the most sought after amongst other
The eyes of the Southwest states
The favourite of her mother...

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EKO AKETE @50
TIME OF THOUGHT:LOST
DATE OF THOUGHT:2015

A damsel was born decades ago
Her name is EKO
Eko Ile Ogbon
She is the most sought after amongst other
The eyes of the Southwest states
The favourite of her...

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Bamboo Night origins - Story behind the epic haiku poem “Bamboo Night”

It is a tribute poem to Matsuo Basho.   In 1674, December 20th. The 354th. day of the year. It was a Thursday...

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Famed cousin of Hollywood and subtilized by the agnomen Tollywood
This brobdingnagian docudrama industry
Has brought home the bacon
Over a meg neighborhood. 

The thirties first tacit motion black and white
Greeted the first sound Irani’s Alam Ara
The Take...

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AWELEWA
(Beauty Lord)

Mojirola Amoke Orekelewa Omidan
Her beauty struck every creature
Like the camellic evergreen Flowering shrub.

Aponbepore Arewa Oleyinju Ege
Her allure utter chamomile of
Peace and pure love
Who then can deny not seeing her
When she majestically pass by?
Ajanaku koja...

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My name is unknown. It means confused, broken and lost. 
This is the memory of when I learned to trust again. 
It was like it was yesterday, I had just gotten out of a bad...

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I must say you are one of those African
artistes that drive my soul to the skies 
and show me what the world looks like
 with the lens of legacies.
You drown my soul into the depths
of...

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Na im one day i carry my car commot for
house,
As i dey go na im i see one man dey shout.
'Stop there,stop there',he dey tell me,
Wetin concern me; i don go!
Na im wen i come...

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Nineteen years passed by
Kismet met again in Ullapara, a new
Nineteen years before
Roshna Begum, stood there, ahead, all of them, upfront.
Entropy a storm, a kindled Maugham, lit the latitude, brainstorm
Uplifted a passion, yearning for long gone,...

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DEEP IN THE HEART

Walking head bent across the street
Ruminating what life could have been.
Whether of lost or gain,
Deep in the heart.

The sojourn of life so confusing
That it can't rely on itself anymore.
Cos a bright thing...

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In a  joyous praise of Spring’s embrace 
Comes a  glorious, punctilious, Victorian ara
With clothes of Cotton, satin, and lace 
to make our appearances look bright and fair.

All that the sun shining ever brightly...

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There at the market place
Onlookers gathered singing the masquerade’s praise.
A visible ghost about to get loose-
Held by its companion, from fleeing like a wandering goose.

The masquerade yearns to dance
Swaying like a drunkard it needs this...

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This sonnet was written after reading a news article on the internet about the Swedish
Wrestler Ara Abrahamian's misconduct at the awards presentation after failing to win the
gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. He was...

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Mushin Ajina
   Bojiojimi
   Eruobodo, ogongo baba eiye
   Ofigbogbo ara shogun bi olosha
   Gidigbalo dawa omowipe ebi npa omo enikankan
   Iluola ti ki nsekan labo afi...

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Ogun the god of Iron,
the day he was coming from Heaven to the World
he was clad in the burning cloth ,he wore the cloth of blood.
With his iron he made path for other gods.
A god...

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After the party, i woke up on a tropical island

I was with three new friends in Manaus,
We drunk, on, two, three Caipirhina, Brazilian booze,
I couldn’t stop thinking about a Brazilian girl in France,
Have you ever...

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Ah, Red Macaw, you are the pestilence
of impatience
in my day, soaring far, far overhead
squawking and screaming
your face overheated and red
beak too portentous
for sweets, gobbling and demanding
if ever you stop, but the leaves
have no leavening, you’re...

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Ko’si ewu loko Longe 
Longe fun ara re ni Ewu 

It’s at a start when I call on my soul,my flesh and my masculinity to take beyond the disappointment of my actions and bear the...

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P D, Paula and Phyllis: each have "P" in their name.
O' s , though, I see none of! Now isn't that a shame?
Emilia, sweetie, gets third spot for her "E."
T im, Thvia, Tirzah, & Timothy...

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BEFORE the day gives room for the reign of the
night
Before the loudest silence conquers the stillness
of the bustling day
Before the active eyes of the Hawk hide behind
the tired lids
I want to say
I will come to...

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"The Heart of Grace"



We 
are the 
1
we have 
been waiting 
for

in us
all
waits 
the Sovereign 
powerfully seated
seeded 

in the 
Heart of Grace 

commanding 

PEACE
and 
LOVE

it calls
you forward
through 
all of 
your 
dreams

down 
paths of faith
towards
1
waits
belief

commanding

in the 
Heart...

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Golf backwards is flog; God backwards is dog
Eat backwards is tea; team backwards is meat
Pot backwards is top; top backwards is pot
         ~ And ton backwards is...

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Década da Fé

Sem a influência sustentadora da fé 
as pessoas 
desenvolvem pouca crença 
em si mesmas. 

Todas as pessoas precisam 
sentir que existe em cada uma,  
fé, inteligência e amor; 
pessoas que duvidam não...

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