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Nigerian Poems
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IF I EXCHANGE THE PEN FOR THE GUN, A POEM BY NUEL UYI
This is a poem about the pains of having to go fight at the war front and leaving one's beloved at home with the thought that one may go to the war front and not come back alive.
FAITH, A POEM BY PROMISE AKPA-ESU
faith lies in the heart of the believer, and the sinner sins only because he believes; that redemption is a winged horse...
//SUPERSTITIONS//
This poem tells about the beliefs we all had while younger, before we were librated by sciences,common sense and so on.
MY DEPENDENCY, A POEM BY YAHUZA ABDULKADIR
Losing a loved one got me into smoking and drinking. I tried to quit but it's the most difficult thing to do.
WHEN I HEARD THE WORDS ” HATE THE SIN & NOT THE SINNER”
The title became somewhat more of a sermon to me & this was one reason I wrote the poem, it one time had effects on me as a person(sinner).
Sin truly is a purgatory, we are forgiven only when the police of our heart(conscience) is safe, clean & sane.
MY FATHER WORE GRIEF AS A GARMENT
when i reckon of how much i have been through, i think of how much my father has lived to endure as the result of the ill felted marriage with my mother, as all i could see written on his face are scares of grief.
LOVE ONLY VISIT ON BIRTHDAYS
Love Only Visit On Birthdays is a masterpiece written by multi award winning creative writer; Ayomide Inufin D'great and it centers on the hypocrisy, sentiment and unrealistic show of love and affection which is framed and falsely flaunted on special days such as birthdays.
POEMIFY MAGAZINE ISSUE III: 2 POEMS BY DZUKOGI ZAKIYYAH
we’ve reached God as if we were not told that life is gold, and stories, life.
POEMIFY MAGAZINE ISSUE III: A POEM BY GODWIN NKET-AWAJI
you are two fragments in my heart
one is a moonlight tale with infants
on the knees of a grizzled woman
POEMIFY MAGAZINE ISSUE III: 2 POEMS BY SA’ID SA’AD ABUBAKAR
The morning that a stranger jumped into my wife’s bathtub I was buried in the pages of a blank journal & Microsoft PowerPoint.