I.Contents
Dedication
1.Virgin Verses
2.Uncommon
3.Thin Line
4.Self-Suffice
5.The Unsung
6.False Cause
7.In Nigeria
8.Bride Pride
9.Red Shed
10.All in the Legs
11.Habit
12.Procrastination
13.Pointing Fingers
14.The Green Fight
15.Appeal to Caesar
16.Bloody Bill
17.Promising Young Man
18.Untold Passion of an African Child I
19.Untold Passion of an African Child II
20.Untold Passion of an African Child III
21.The Destitute of Our Land
22.Evol
23.Three on a Tree
24.Time upon Time
25.Wana~Be
26.My Apologies
27.A Place Called There
28.They’ve Spoilt Everything
29.She Man
30.Step Out
31.Why Woman
DEDICATION
This short piece of poetry is dedicated to all lovers of life and simplicity. It’s said that life is both simple and complicated but it takes the simple truths to solve the complicated problems. Put on your pensive mode and let’s have a cool lyrical ride.
Virgin Verses
My verses are virgin never been said
My stanzas are maiden never been heard
They cheer like beer, making many glad
Drowning the flood from the eyes of the sad
My diction is distinct, simple and true
My lines run on pun, romantic and blue
Rhythmic rhymes refreshing as due
Specially brewed by me for you
C’emeka Mbah 2/2/2012
UNCOMMON
Rare it is for those who shun negligence for diligence
Not to soar on the high mounting wings of excellence
It may seem like anunlike pole casting attractions,
when you receive the kiss of innocence,
from a lad, lad in lad hood
and, the sun sets at dawn,
while the moon smiled at those who mourn
at the birth of an infant
When divorced at honeymoon
a coffin prepared for you while alive
a worthy friend proves unfaithful
as your very foe rescues you from death
robbed by the cops and
robbers run to your aid
your bishop promotes promiscuity
while an atheist leads you to God
on that Sunday you were duped by a clergy
and a beggar offers you alms
When your lawyer indicts you
and your doctor poisons you
a wicked witch donates her blood
fear not for an atheist prays for you
that, Mohamed told me in church.
When you begin to hear the smell
and perceive the voice of the ancient
for you've got an heir before the man
you call father and have also
gotten infatuated with your mother
Though common it may appear
that the moon and the sun met in the sky
when the leopard and ewe sat to wine and dine
while watching the ageless Atlantic dry
at the dawn of a rainy sunny night
yet, it’s uncommon for resistance not to bow topersistence.
THINLINE
Lord, grant grace I pray thee
unto me, to differentiate between
meekness and weakness,
humility and timidity,
confidence and arrogance,
remorse and repentance,
resting and lazing,
quietness and silence,
making sense and making noise,
thinking and worrying,
wealth and money.
More so, dearest Lord I besiege thee,
teach me to differentiate between me and mine,
and the truth that nothing is truly mine,
when, I’m truly thine.
SELF SUFFICE
What is?
Sovereignty without authority
Faith without integrity
Salt without savor
Fortress without succor
Imagine
Songs without tune
July without June
Families without Home
Vatican without Rome
Can there be?
A book without author
A protégée without mentor
A forest without tree
A hive without Bee
That nothing self-suffices is true
You need the world that needs you.
THE UNSUNG
His Excellency, laud with loud ovation
Cost of victory simplified by great oration
But six feet down town lay the heroes that fought
The Unsung
The Artiste, performed far beyond expectation
Fans and figures doubled beyond computation
But down stage sat the obscure song writer
The Unsung
The Company topped the chart by nominations
Bully shares soared and blossomed beyond duration
But down sized stood her indebted work-force
The Unsung
Soon a new song will be sung
I dare you to lend your voice and sing
For all who labour and linger in the soil of toil
But have remained with the crowd of
The Unsung
4.22pm, 28/8/2012
FALSE CAUSE
Elite few for their political reasons and scheming
in deception drew many feeble fellows with a tint of religious emotion
Men who do evil in the name of good and serve the devil in the name of God
Wonder why we would worship deities if we have to protect them and kill for their cause
Alas feeble faithfuls faithfully fan a false cause
Boko Haram
BikoHara'm
You claimed to be anti-western education
But you are pro-western technology & ammunition
fruit of a failed marriage, the abomination of amalgamation
Men of customized violence & signature blood shed
Lo you've turned a green land red
Here’s a cry for the dead and all who bled
Boko Haram
BikoHara'm
You claimed your problem was the government
yet bombed the unarmed and innocent
I felt I knew a place you'll never raze or dent
But you attacked Mosquitoes flying fat
And set ablaze a mov
ing Church rat
Which heavens do you connect from your mat?
Boko Haram
BikoHara'm
Some say you are fanatical and political
Others say you are unrealistic, cannibalistic andtribalistic
Whatever the case, I loathe your bloody passion
You smoked to ashes mother and child
Returning untimely to dust a groom and his bride
Yet some keep mum, others speak in tongues low and mild
Boko Haram
BikoHara'm
You double the woes of the Niger-area
and in your folly, threw stones at the market square
You've lost some of your own and soon to be deserted alone
Imagine the opportunities lost at a senseless cost
In my mother-tongue, I bid you to end this wrong
Boko Haram
BikoHara'm
I have had this burden borne like a laden camel
It’s true our beliefs differ in Isaac and Ishmael
Yet I entreat you in the name of our father Abraham
Let folks flock in your pastures without fear of harm
For infected with dirge is my song that is sung
True we do not share a common tongue
But its crystal clear we share a common skin
The victims of your aggression ask 'What’s our sin?'
Are we the western education so forbidden?
Sheet your explosive swords and quench your wrath
That life again may from south thrive through to the north
Boko Haram
BikoHara'm
Wednesday, July 25, 2012 at 1:47pm ·
IN NIGERIA
In Nigeria
The sun rises in the South and sets in the North
Birds of the same feather don’t flock together
Show me your enemy and I will tell you who you are
All that glitter are not bold
Lives are lived at owner’s risk
Which way Nigeria
In Nigeria
They frustrate unity in diversity and facilitate diversity in unity
Majority could have their say but the Minority will have their way
Yes u can’t beat them, sorry you can’t join them
As for those on board Charity begins abroad
They cut their coat according to our size
Who said they can’t eat their cake and have ours?
What goes around never comes around
For as they make our bed so we lie
Alas there is honor amongst thieves
Some fingers are more equal.
In Nigeria
North or South home is in doubt
East or West Home is in Mess
Few are called but many are chosen
Few are cold many are frozen
Fraud is thicker than water
In Nigeria
Children are the destitute of tomorrow
With an evaporating economy, looking for a future to borrow
Yes the rich also cry, but the poor always sorrow
Yet they manipulate media with their ceaseless creed
We hear but we don’t see, less deed more greed
But if you and I will plant a different seed
The land will blossom in a quantum leap
It may not be immediate for nothing good comes cheap
Nevertheless what we sow we must surely reap.
In Nigeria
You and I must build and journey the extra mile
To immortality and embrace posterity with a smile
BRIDE PRIDE
Comely & Charming yet Cheerful and Chaste
Beautiful in Blissful plethora of abundance without waste
She is loving and loyal as the sun is to the day
A rare lady
Of Uncommon Story
Rooted in Christ, with the Charisma & Character
Deep in her career call like fish in the water
She is loving and loyal as the sun is to the day
A rare lass
Of Uncommon Class
Committed to Purpose and Communicates in grace
The Custodian of my heart, my dice and my ace
She is loving and loyal as the sun is to the day
A rare dame
Of Uncommon fame
Driven by Passion and timely in action
Nurtured her gifts into skills for our vision
She is loving & loyal as the sun is to the day
A rare wife
Of Uncommon life
Gallant in Glamour with wit yet graceful and simple
Lit my life with the brightness of your face and dimple
You are loving and loyal as the sun is to the day
My rare bride
In whom I pride
02/02/2012
RED SHED
He came and shed his red
To make me glitter snow white
He cried and died as he shed and bled
Alas I live been washed and sparkling so Bright
Thursday, October 4, 2012 at 11:29am ·
ALL IN THE LEGS
Everything about Ekenmawas normal
Slim, Slender and Simple nothing special
But there was something about her motion limbs
They call it hot legs.
She wasn’t the fairest of ten thousand
Couldn’t be classed as beauty or brains
But something always kept her on top of her game
They call it long legs
Don’t get it twisted, she's nice and decent
She kept on roasting amidst a lot of toasting
Despite all the pressures to stand to the challenge
She always sat with crossed legs
But things are no longer the same
She now walks demystified without honour
it all came crumbling down that wild night
when she was caught with opened legs
12.04pm. 15/10/2013
HABIT
I'm often repeated and hardly defeated
Could be good, bad or ugly
It all depends on what you make of me
I run a full course when fully encrypted
I am Habit
I can make you soar sky high
As well as fuel your eyes to cry
Can lead you to great profit
Or lie you down underneath
Its still me Habit
A friend to both the achiever and mediocre
The very small stream that makes a river
What's your flavour? I make and mar
Can keep you redundant or take you far
Call me Habit
Be firm with me and you'll achieve a great feat
Be easy with me and you'll be wasted six feet
PROCRASTINATION
It’s best done later and not now
Tomorrow will be perfect I can vow
Why yoke yourself like a laden cow?
The cloud is heavy and ready to snow
Be merry with life and take it real slow
And in observing the cloud you didn't sow
Alas the seed dies with its great potential
Buried with a would have been credential
The plan became an aborted mission
Because procrastination stole the vision
POINTING FINGERS
You are one of the reasons
Why they inflate their quote
If you had seized the seasons
Good men could have had your vote
You are one of the reasons
Why our sweet land has gone sour in waste
Here is one of your multiple treasons
You aid corruption just to suit your taste
You are one of the reasons we wedge weighty wrath
Bombs daily detonate like fickle fireworks far north
You decided to do nothing but shut your mouth
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sp; So they took our weary sail south
You are one of the reasons the land is inflicted with rape
Overflowing in abundance yet you mong like a greedy ape
Alas our land is grey and old but not due
And it hurts me to know that I am also you.
THE GREEN FIGHT
The land is green
But unclearly seen
The deserts may dare to encroach
Human hustle may threaten to reproach
Yet we must fight for nature even beyond the seas
Together we can replant a greener world and build tall trees
Wedge the flood and erosion, keep the deserts at bay
For the love of the green life plant a tree today
The land could be green
And could be clearly seen
Saturday, January 5, 2013 at 11:55am ·
APPEAL TO CAESAR 1685-2085
In 1685
Mere men journeyed to see Caesar
Some were short, others weren’t tall
Yet with dare determination
Attained great heights
In 1785
Mere men journeyed to see Caesar
Some were blind, others couldn’t see
Yet with dare passion
Achieved their great vision
In 1885
Mere men journeyed to see Caesar
Some were dumb, others couldn’t speak
Yet with loud ovation
Folks laud their great oration
In 1985
Mere men journeyed to see Caesar
Some were lame, other couldn’t walk
Yet with great determination
They went the extra mile
In 2085
Would you have journeyed to see Caesar?
Notwithstanding self-mutilation or color limitation
Will there be standing ovation
As folks laud the legacy of your rare inspiration
BLOODY BILL
In him was the curse of the law personified
Born a lion in royalty, died a lamb in loyalty
Calvary deal was sealed with the blood of Christ the crucified
The one broker by whom humanity acquired her share in Divinity
An investment that yields a premium of an endless life
Of one who spent the rest of his earthly life to give the life of his heavenly rest
Transforming the woe of his foe into his church and worthy wife
In dying her death she may live his life; true love at its best
The Prince came to the earth to shop for a bride
Willingly signed a bloody bill regardless of price
Calvary deal was sealed with the blood of Christ the crucified
I died in his death, alas! I ever live being born twice.
1/2/2012
PROMISING YOUNG MAN
Hear the travails of a single mother
Traded her heaven for love
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