Collins Aiterebhe's Profile
DODO SHARAM
Now see what you made me
A fowling prey
Humanoid beast
Clearly you've upturned me
Saint of courage and truth
You've masked me up in shields
When all I ever asked
Was a bread and a shirt
A home and a life
You promised lights in my Savanna
Meadow pastures in the Sahara
You coerce my very intent
To mean pain and threat
You annoy my human nature
To halt my spawning resolve
To stop you
You sent after me
Innocent knights uncrowned
In the openness of fairness
You murdered my Madela
You paranoia my chastity
With bitterness and enmity
To your philosophies I concur
But your arrogance I abhor
Your bright degrees
Spurn wild decrees
That meant nothing but sin
Now my quest is vengeance
I still yearn your repentance
As though I became a sword
To sally the bitterness of your rot
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MONDAY TAHNAN
Coolest of night winds
Beauty of the third-eye
The sun and moon
Sparkling in Brisbane
In long ambers of light
Of tallest appendage
And bright magnificence
Tahnan, aura of frankincense
Peculiar; sui generis
Cider of berries
BeYOUTHiful; eccentric
Your life is bundle of light
Upon which I write tonight
Star of a million years
Betrothed to nature
No brushes; no lashes
Smiles are your pen picture
Cut off the perfect set of your teeth
White like snowflakes
Adoring your choir voice
Like rushing crystals of lilies
Your heart is mild like cinnamon
Softer than fur
The translucence of love
Upon which I plead a victim!
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MY RELIGION
Once I've gone through water
In the name of the Father
Son and Holy Ghost
I've come before Pontiffs
At the Blessed Sacrament of Christ
I've taken bread; wine
Of His Holy Body and Blood
A ritual I hardly fathome
Countlessly, I've knelt in the pew
My heart broken in nodes
Rosary vibes; benediction
White robes of human-angels
Sprinkling Holy Water
On hardened hearts of slabs
I shock at stickless sermons
Of Holy Mass of Matrimony
And then before me
Is the reality of my world
How myself in a wild dance
Of heightened faith
Have mimicked love
To a private joke
How in a ballad of tears
I've doctored myself a dunce
When love itself should be
The true religion of man!
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ELECTION DAY
Until today alone
Power is never in the thumb
Today we reach the carrefour
Where decisions of our lives
Are made in discreet
We gather in queues
To redesign destinies
Of us and posterity unborn
Unyielding in change
Our very essence in life
Is now a thumb away
Today we gather
Not for piecemeals or nuts
Wisely for the change
Wisely even more
For the attainment
Of hopes and aspirations
On the day Jacob met the angel
He egged on his robe
To acquire the blessings of his life
Eight years is long
Stand affirm soul brother
Stand and vote
Against tribe; against bribe
Against sufferings that abide
Turn this malignant tide
To stop coming and going
Like Ogbanje to our land!
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NEMBE
It's been long I see your face
The warmth of your cozy nights
Of breakless river bed
Streamside exchange
Down the sput of Kolo creek
Love of my ethical being
The long stroll
To King Koko's Square
Mitigated stony roads
Of Nembe Bassambiri
Ogbolomabiri my blood
Where I have pledged my heart
To always return at your river side
I miss the hospitality of your clan
The Alagoas and perewinkle
I long to eat kekefia
With lads from Ama-kalakala
And move my proud chest
Way up Edepie
Funerals on Fridays
Take chuckling kids
Wine gorging men
I usually would stay up
To watch the rolling waist
Of young riverine girls
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ASHES
Yesterday I emptied my soul
By your bed
My life the dark solitude
Of the lone star🌟in a hasy night
Yesterday I faded to white ashes
To life inconsequential
To man's inhumanity to woman...
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TURUGUREM
I hope you sail across the stars
In the brightest ambers of clouds
Your bed shall be pearls
Tall rocky angels
Shall comfort you with jelly wings
I hope you dine in the moon🌕
In the very beauty of lights
Where no cronies can lay further siege
Your paths are well preserved
Rest my friend, rest
I hope you sleep all day
Beyond the nitty life of an AirmanY
You've lived with songs evergreen
In the likes of Bachamas
For so you shsll Trailer on
And gaggle in the winds
Your lights shall glare
Like gas in Andoni
Then we shall meet again
To gather lilies in the stars
The wild bear and stag
Shall bear no further hurt
But till then sleep... Sleep dear friend!
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YOU SHALL SOON LEAVE US BUBU
You shall soon leave us Bubu
Hard as it may to grapple
After the manner you took us hill-top
Our hearts swollen with hopes
All, a muddled syntax
You shall soon leave us
Poor innocent rovers
Betrothed to wait
By comatose injunctions
Of spiralling cost
Empty pockets of jobless fellows
Eager all night for a change
You shall leave us Bubu
Soon you shall
And tarry into pages
Enigma; obstinate
These days are counting
You shall leave us Bubu
Soon you shall drop
From Top to Bottom
To taste the bitter brew
Of your eight years rule!
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OLOKUN
In the morning mist of haze
I've always wondered at your riverside
How so long your face
Span the dense tropic of greeneries
Overlaying the mystic hides of jungle drums
Your aquatic splendour
Sprawl under a canopy
Of creepy-ropy eucalyptus
Basin of your watercourse
Flowing in an estuary
Of super-silveric foil
Ageless; tirelessly
You mimic the full moon🌕
Mother; Immortal
Immaculately, chanting Nightingales
Adorn your rushing crystals
Your bright concerto
Sings beyond the Cape of Good Hope
Far beyond places beyond
Splash me the ambers of your fame
And yet in the morning mist of haze
I shall return to the wonder at your riverside!
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MY FRIENDS ON THE OTHER SIDE
Dreaded edges of the sun🌞
Mirrored visions of isolation
Smashing young daffodils
On the deepest monster of hate
Nostalgia and dry day
Maul me with might
Mystery of the night
Songs in bleated tones
Of dead saxophonist
Raise my soul to sea-puss
Destiny rode me like chip
Away from your egalitarian eyes of pride
Your bold and haunting cosmology
The ecstasy of our childhood
I miss you friends; all of you
Flapping ligats
In the sea depth of love
Snoring in breakless silence of mud
As our earth entwined
To bring us in separate spheres
We flew; all for good!
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The Fulanis At Kubwa Train Station
Taken in dabbling infractions of uncertainties
The Fulanis shrewed long faces
To a corner at the wait
Male, female; clustering
Tall with catapulting beauty
Of long plaited braids
Younglings with resilient effort
Curved over slim backs
To suck saggered breasts
The women carry Nunu pots on their head
And chuckle with voices of song
Suited for Hindu play
Hard as it may to grasp
One shouted, 'chukuyimiri!'
The train bellied on from afar
Setting waiters to queue
The Fulanis did not queue
They never rush at accomplishing an intent
They took gangways to the brim
Sitting to our film
Holding out cattlesticks
Like soldiers on a sentry watch
Such was the delight
One shouted again, 'Itingiri!'
As if to say it's moving
And their long smile
Tarried into the distance
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Kpangeyi
It's been long I see your face Kpangeyi
The young night and oils of my lamp dried
Yet I continued the journey to see you
Kpangeyi I pleaded Kateregi; the others
To lend me oil
In their usual manner
They've declined
Stingy envits of love
Am all alone Kpangeyi
Dabbling bushes and swamps
Far from the beauties of Nupe and her emirate
The quest is pursuit of love
And in it I shall behold you Kpangeyi
Or at worst you shall hear my exploits
What daunting adventure I had to take
In the order that I reach you
Now I've come to you Kpangeyi
My bloodied eyes and soar kneels
All stare you in the arms of Edati
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GIORGIO BABONI
We shall meet again Giorgio Baboni
We shall meet to volley in Lapalud
The white clads of winter
Shall shatter our dark coats
In the daylight stroll to Spar
At the mayor's county
Overlooking Placé Morale
I shall hid my face in fear
Away from Gendarmerie
The sundset and sundown
With visits at Decathlon
Young girls of this countryside
Shall yell our union
In the manner we join hands and walk
White and black
You will wave them with a smile
Ticketing the train to Avignon
Montellimar, Nantes and Lyon
To see the brothers at the Kingdom Hall
I shall enjoy sisterly hugs
France is home and beauty
But you my friend
You are the union of the world
The defeat of racism!
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I Am The Victim Of Myself
In my wordless contraption of soul-world
Deep in the voyage of hearts
I hear my infinite self recoil
Speaking in complicated voices
O rushing genes
Flashing back and forth
Like waves of the Atlantic
In the inner latitudes of void
My messages are empty
Filled with wordless capitalisation of souls
I muse from words to words
An imaginative dunce
Quiet when most I should speak
A poor pensive dude
Flexing the emotions of energy
My head the binary of infusions
Of which I write to free my mind
These bright metaphysic lights
Years have flashed me
In a dark expedition of solitude
Whose abstract epitome
I am the victim of myself.
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MY MOTHER THE IYELOGBE OF EDO
Tallest mahogany; unbending
Under the tact tutelage of parentage
Indomitable; a flint rover
Who walked the longest journey
Sweated giant strides
Every step is the echo
Of which I became the music
My mother is Iyelogbe
The brightest of ambers
Amazonian priestess
Of rolling gaiety of spruce
In her umbrellic ambience
I am a shielded gad
Feathered from the imploring eyes
Of the wild hawk
And when the mortals sound
Iyelogbe will march forward
Rigorously like a foot soldier
Standing my go-between
Like man of every instance
Defeats was her perils
Her head darken with blood
That I be the victor
You will meet your glory in the skies
As I may never be able to pay
Words too are not enough
I crest you in the wind
The world has known you today!
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Olaiva
The golden sun 🌞
Dies slowly in the distance
O'er dark shadowy clouds
Of bats and owls
Settling in their nighttime life
The seagull returns to bird island
Olaiva will you return?
Yesterday so rough
I worked the tough
In cold oddities
To bear you goodies
For you I was mad
I gave all I had
The laughing sun is out
With bright rainbowy clouds
Bats and owls now home
In their woods
To return is constant
Olaiva will you please return?
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LONG RIVER
Life on a hase
Swinging in shifts
Of prodded hew
Childhood conspiracy
My wet prints
Dusted in coated frankincense
Of dark murk
Face wrinkled
Way before I became 30
And barter - a - barter
The cold tempest waggled
In decades of perpendicular hay
Disguised dilemma
Wild infractions and splashing gust
Gobbed my face
To strange fossil brands
Life in frozen pathway
Of the infant lizard
Man has created god in his image
In his abysmal obsession with wealth
At his infinite play of misery
My emotions yaw
Tottering vast with inclinations
Of red coastal myriads
Soupcon commoners
We the pinch of saga
Are betrayed by smurch reputation
In a terrible conspiracy of silence
Everyday in my tall country
Great impasse offset our expectations
Leaving us to swim a long river
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NIGERIANS OF MY TIME
Man's underhandedness
Nature's most made
Nigerians of my time
Are brave drudgers
Vibrant visionaires
Partakers in the new world
They are worn audience
At a dead stage
Of crook comedians
With bleak suspense
Spawning sweat
Like heat of sun
Quick to ajudge
Quick to forgo
Nigerians of my time
Will set a wild fire
That goes out
By drop of little water
Yet they will vote the devil
A thousand-time
And go on
With bright complaining smiles
Perpendicular followers
Disgruntled in the pace
Broken to promises
Pacified by hope
Poor Nigerians of my time
Who have no say in the matter
The goal of greatness
Is leaders' and the led
But Nigerians of my time
Whenever ready
Can achieve any goal
And ethnic bigots
Religious extremists
In whose cyclone
The Nigerians of my time
Are spinning
And shall spin to safety!
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Do Not Go Nigeria
Do not go Nigeria
Do not break
Stay, lets restart again
Away from the point
Where we ditched our foot
And I restructure your face
To the beauty you once were
Stay Nigeria
Do not go
Stay with love
Let that love appease the dead
Whose innocent spirit
Wail endlessly
For vengeance
Stay as entity
Not majorities
Not minorities
We all are majors
And together
We shall rebuild again
Stay Nigeria, stay
And write unity
In your name
Stay to defend your peace
Stay with clear conscience
I love your cynosures of ridges
Cresending Jos plateau
I love the aquatic sprawl of Lagos
Stay, Nigeria stay
I cannot pay visa
To visit Onitsha!
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Felicity
Sorry if I became too poetic
I never was one to talk straight
If my words rend asunder
Your soul and spirit
Sorry again
I spoke from the deepest of my life
The truest of hearts
Once I took you for the moon
The clouds and cold winds
You were a star
Shedded by the day
Hard to find
You were my night-time sun
The beauties locked about you
I saw to it
We purge them out
But I turned insulator
The moment you became a timeless voltage
The edges of my words were dreaded
And enough to draw hot tears
I never fit fist at a feminine
I never will hit you Felicity!
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ITEKUN
Lastnight echoes rain
The little children
Gathered by the moon
To overhear
Streams of moonlight tales
Itekun told of herself
The clapping star
The yellow reef
Of hollowing trees
Of spite and rage
Who for a moment
Could cease the wind
With purple thunder
And sea them to halt
Itekun is melania tree
Firm and jelly
Itekun is nothing!
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IGBOBONELIMI
Variant of Edo-Esan
Colourifically flamboyant
Dramatic
Superboyantly acrobatic
Thunder-a-thunder
Flip-per-flip
Terrific
To a traffic of stunned audience
Igbobonelimi
Bright magnificence
Masquerade of the three
natures of man
Tall, medium and small
Telerific
A hardware ghost
Intermidiary of gods and man
Who erupts from the soil
With a gbigi-gbigi bell
Killer of Oduma's show
That four-faced monster
With a long tail
Igbobonelimi
Spinning guts
Of stellar conformities
Funtastically brilliant
Dance of the spirits
Drawing applause
From skewed stubborn faces!
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LOOSE ME
The mother
The child at the back
Both are a bondage
Many the travails
Of our soul
Many also the tide
That begrudge us
And set us distance
Way up our goals
But loose me
Let me fall to space
Loose me
To endless manoeuvres
Loose me to the wind
Loose me
To spread your song
And cause karma
To dance your tune
You can't go
If you hold me here
You won't grow
When I can't flow
Loose me
Loose me to free you!
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THE MERGE
Crack!!!
You stood up
As candid as a mirror
Languishing in pain
I drove you to the dentist
To have your tooth fixed
Under the arch of pain
To do and not to do
You lit the fire of love
And in your eyes
I saw the glint
The humming bird
Sang quiki quaki
Our souls budded
in chemistry
And rode way beyond
the heavenlies
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XMAS AT BOUNDARY
At 6
The last fire is the yellow commercial stop & picks
Pile-up the place with Ga-la-la music
The Owo-mi-das are no more
And the traffic of heads as worst
Make kolanut toothed Banbi-Allahs smile
Iya Akpatis hop lightly-gently
In their best to keep away from detonating knockouts
The kids
Running higgy-hagga
Shouting, dancing...
In the daze of the dying sun
Catapults a frenzy aroma of merriment
Life can't be any more pleasant
No more the oya-werey rhetorics
No more the churlish rants of Iya-la-ye ees
But purple prose of cheerfulness
"My padi...my padi, show go dey?... No yawa"
Ornate rebranding of messy roundabout
Horn blaring of trailers; a raucous
Causing counter-rhythmic euphony of songs...
To set Boundary, Ajegunle ready for another xmas!
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WE CAUSE TALL TREES TO SPRANG
Unbusy Lagos train swells my chest to dark memory
'Shift, shift' - crowded pews of high cathedrals
No seats even
Yet Pale love hammered hatred
'Kill am; kill am' - a vire wind
Empty deaths of old mind ghost wreck havoc
Wandering passions concur to selfish instinct; hypocrisy
'Eyah! Eyah!' We move on
On the harshest wing of irony
I swing through the spaces of thoughts
With shallowed hope
I indict the travails of my soul to taste justice
I had never thought of it
How so lonely I am here
Leaders; downpressors offer heidious promises of burnt bread
To achieve their eternal targets of fair flowers
And appease a retrogressive change in broken ladders
Before this black dream I write time - be prepared
Oppressors determine the nature of struggle
Time has date in the memory of pain
Tall trees shall spring these barren zones
To avenge this viral swung of red fire-flies
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LOVE ON THE WEB
Coming to school today was pretty pointless
I was expecting a friend to bring me tickets for graduation
But She never came
Now am stuck here all day
While the underclassmen take their exams
Naturally, am passing the next two and a half hour on the internet
Waiting for Chemistry class
So I can see my friends one last time before I leave this place for good
(Untill Saturday that is)
Am kind of wondering what the weather is like in England
I can't tell you how much I love the rain
Especially in late Spring
If I ever get to be a rock star
My first video will have rain in it
Always, I was just thinking of you
It amuses me that we talk every now and again
Despite the fact that we met in a chat room
I muse from time to time
Over what yours eyes must look like
I think I told you
I can never look some people straight in the eye
For fear that my soul will burn theirs
Well, time to change my song again
I'll talk to you later...
I never was one to linger on a conversation.
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EVENING SUN
Gold-plated evening sun
Beauty cut-across
Beams of hope
Frame of creation
Time and courage
Are in your eyes
Evening sun
Mercuric pyrotechnic
Over Lagos coastal lines
I feel your peace
I feel your warmth
I see it cut across the Atlantic
Mimicking the coolant waves
I want to follow you
Away from this restless bed
Eaten off by nights
Nights that cloud my Africa
And blind it to the luminance
Of life's very essence
But I fear
Your stay like ours
Is cut short
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LOVE EN TOTAL
On your request for total love
It's better in time I lay shots
For love herself has no key
To set a countryman at peace
We meddled and cuddled
From cold night winds
For the best you seek
My night might still quiver
I can't please a young girl
In the spike of youth
Am old man now
And upon winter's tale
I cherish more the shallowness
Of the fire-place of thoughts
Of you though
I worry becoming unfit
So I will lead you to the clanging bell
I will lead you to the field of yellow daffodils
In central Yorkshire
Together we can dance
In the rains of England
By the edges of the sea
Cockshot with drowse
I can sing you lullaby
To achieve the tragic balance
Of broken spaces
I was never one to love completely
I am an Army Airman
And my love is with the skies!
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ODE TO MAMBILA PLATEAU
Sine aspect rush of hardened slabs
Howl sprawl with diving stripes
Overseeing eyes of the gods
Plough over towns; downs of cities
And surfing and dining with snow-white sky
Along stony coast of the savanna
Your beauty unyielding
Spurts across arid paths; arid borderways
With counter-rhythmic respite
You fell in a sinusoidal-wavy gorge
Into the deep clutch of heights
You have not wane nor wither
Foxy Mambila; alluring like Habila
Cute cartel, bride; ever young
I love the siesta lull at your feet
The warmth of your evening dryness
I love your cynosures of ridges and climbing hills
Cresending Numan; across Jos Plateau
Leaving the plungy harmony of the cactus
And diving far, far and beyond places beyond
About this country, something is beautiful
But we become a moon in the bucket of unsteady waters
Wild creatures preying its own
Only you Mambila is forever peace!
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GOD'S HAND
It follows me like a spy
It holds me like a tie
It's stubborn lika a scar
And never leaves me far
Lion goes toothless
Scorpion stingless
Where can't I stand
Oh this God's Hand!
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I
My been born on the 9th of June
Redefines me an attorney of songs
A kiss of imaginative empathy
That dwells occasionally in artistic
isolation
I, Collins recalls the pernicious vent
of inanity
A voice of humanity
Venting issues with the metaphors
of bluntness!
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ODE TO ANAMBRA WAXBILL BIRD
Dun- coloured finch
Gray brownish
Red bill and rump
Variant of attractive colours
And willowy body of waves
Inconspicuously fascinating
'Tzzzt tzzzt' you call
High pitched; eerie
Twittering and buzzing
To the whizzing light of the sun
Tirelessly over sedges
You sidle to and fro
Standing boldly with tenanty
Unsliding on bending graintops
Queen of rivershores
Master of lagoon sandbanks
Glory of marshes and swamps
Grace of estuaries
Anambra waxbill bird
Proudly called Estrilda Poliopareia
Uniquely Nigerian; pale eyes
Owning to your south southedness
I am tall and granulated too
Ready to fly in earnest
But humans are a gargoyle!
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NOT AFRAID (for Lekki massacres)
Life passes hauntingly before me
Melting down in dawn's eyes
Of deserted flats of difficult stones
On twisted foreign roads
Innocent protesters' blood
Spilled across gates
Gates of greedy bigotry nibs
In whose reckless contraption
You were undone and not afraid
Our tears of 60 years
Eloped and reached the brim
As the sad Owl
Watches with wide ambiguities!
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ENDING SARS
Many are the hazards of our voyage
Greater the perplexities of
mute indifference
We are become a flippant piece
An invincible impression
A leaking frigate
So we rose to face this wind
With our last firebrand
While they yet laugh and lie
This storm surely must die!
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BEFORE THE HARD CLAPPING (For those that died of coronavirus)
Cleavages of the earth
Open to take my salty tears,
Far from within;
And deep, in the shackles of hopelessness
My heart is bridled with pain
In the ravelling clutch of plague
I carry ocean my sweat
Eyes of the unseen survey
Curse history incomplete without me
The virology of virulent waves
Laying man and mankind a waste
Before this great dread of mischief
I cry time to suffer cure
And bury this fit of fear
With unwholesome slur
Before the hard clapping
I plead the thunders of hallelujah
To rain mercy
And re-elude our joy!
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GIRLS HIGH IN DESIRES
If there are girls actually high in
desires
I met one sometime in the sun
Her nails were long
She stood six feet tall
To tempt night to fall
If there are girls actually high in
desires
She will stand the moon
Her eyes dim and blue
She is diva; viva forever
She crawls up like viper
To sting me thither
Girls high in desires
Are hollowing flowers
Some awk tulips
Creamy at the top
Hostile at the limbs
If there are girls actually high in
desires
They glow like stars
Given to shine
As beauty and desires
Are what the world is made
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ELERGY TO JOHN PEPPER CLARK
Night rain thundered endlessly
Out of the tower of faith
Beneath darkness and light
You dropped it on my lap
Your pen yet full with ink
And reluctantly, it fell to the ground
Ozidi saga the wild wind
Gathers cloud
To stand the wives' revolt
We left akimbo
And pleaded your star to stay
But in the early of the morning
Mbari the sun drifted west
The raft rift apart
The masquerade with long face
Danced the song of a goat
Streamside exchanged
And the priestess of Abiku
Sprang like a reed in the tide
It was all too late
The boat has set sail
And the other Clark
While now standing in
Announced: Bekederemo of kiagbodo
With a decade of tongues
Has gone to see the casualties
Like Mandela
Bright rainbows
Shall bestride your head
Like a fallen soldier
Tall angels shall relief you
At the gate of yellow reed
You have lived and died a man!
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MY GIRL IS UPSTREET GIRL
Everyday in the morning
She comes back drowsy
Her eyes heavy with sleep
My girl is upstreet girl
Her name: Lady Don't Dull
Stern and avaricious; ambitious
No time for shoddy deals
Heels turned her 6ft plus
Her shots devil-tailored
Shoved up her thighs
With lingeries of bright mascara
Slaying open her cleavage
In an unusual night work-dress
There along Sanusi Fafunwa
She peddles like a pendulum
Bubbling; popping like bubble gum
Her trade is dusk till dawn
That sometimes take her up Allen Avenue
She is upstreet girl!
She is upstreet girl!
Possessed with fat pocket
Unlided by luxury
Obsessed in a man's wealth
Not the potency of his third leg
I contemplated her many times
But last December
She threw me in dilemma
When she caught mama by the heart!
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CEASELESS FLOW
For I also stood dazed
Each time I come upon your ceaseless flow
Rigmaroling to and fro
Jingling melodies of sweet per-thousand-nightingales
Nights of chanting impious souls
Defies the innocence of your transparency
Your well-won-war
Over grief, stake and strife
Vast vibrant virtues
Spurring no enemity, nor pride; nor pain
How long must you be silent then
Impel; impel them to look, listen and learn
The menaces of their apathy
Their polluting fallacy
And from your colourless sleek of meekness
Do splash your undiluting splendour
Water you ever will be
Soak souls still
With the reminiscence
Of your ceaseless flow!
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LOVE ME LIKE A RIVER
I return you the protection of my most ungrudging love
I am a fair flower; a lake on a plain
Be careful how you drive me crazy
I am witless; a harmless fool
Mad in patches; full of lucid intervals
The sea roars; the horrid river flows
Yet my love is unflinching
It is the piercing point
That pours no rage
An archangel of negritude
I'm a ghetto exponent
Human's may lurk hate in love
But divine love that doesn't change
Is the very nature of my soul
So love me also like a boundless river
With the climax that deafens heroes
Let that love subdue me
Yes me, an obstinate creature
A polyphony of rarity
A tiny- little span
Let your love be my luckiest thing
On whose verge, my humanity shall die
Consumed in a broken monody
Of death's very content
With webbed tensions; no fear
My nights lean to you
Lackluster man's life
Spent in a whirling pool of spite
So come away woman; hurry
We must catch up with tall angels
Angels with freezing ribs to attend us!
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HAIL HER
Hail her
Ever priceless
Ever precious
Hail her
In whose prowess
We push to progress
Hail her
In whose strenght
We made birth
Hail her
Who cuddles us
Like a purse
Hail her
As ever as never
Forever and ever
Hail her
Mother
Great rover!
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REUBEN UGOCHUKWU
I still remember you always
They just don't go
Your lush hair
Combed in styling waves
Dark upon you
Like twigs of the jacarady
Fairest of all; yellow melanin
As such in those days
I no longer stroll the sea shore
To pick fish from weary fishermen
Battling with tawny nets
Bar Beach is now a distance
Far off Ahmadu Bello Way
And you must pay to see the waves
We will abandon chores at 4
And dash off to Sand Field
To play 'monkey post'
With the lads from Apese
You were a game delight
With devoirs as you tuss the ball
Our team scammpered
The moment you demise
I never visited VISS again
Since I left her once for good
But I hear she is doing fine
And our friends at school
Have turned men with might
You will be throwing broken javelin
To hull down stubborn almond fruits
As we stroll home on school ways
About peers, we were a pair
Loafty childhood days
But We shall meet again
Reuben Ugochukwu Peter
We shall meet
At the large gathering of stars
The rainbow shall bestride us
Until then, GOODNIGHT!
-poems of Collins Aiterebhe
NIGHTMARE
Stranger than the night that beclouds me
The thin weary lines of gall
Hung injustice heavy
With scary spikes of dark blood
Splashed over-walls of care-taker men
My goose-pimples stood akin
To render my courage half-dead
I saw flashes of the daylight
And I was awake!
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GOING HOME
Hard clap of lightenings
Lay icy hands on barren spots
Victim narrative
My soul gleams
My heart swims back
In basking prologue of soul brothers
Found and left abroad
And dreams in travelling craft
Once at home
I shall be inputed with deaths
I died once before; we die always
I have died a-million time
My nameless sin sings
And has faded at the betrayed cross
Heaven was here before
Africa was once a beauty!
-poems of Collins Aiterebhe
HOW LONG
How long the epilogue
Understands the prologue
I dreamt life to be
The night has heart
Which men must eat
But our final estranglement
Prepared in secrecy
Will lead us through
This unending fire-bolt
And mortal music
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THIS HOUSE IS BREAKING
Viled Artemis
Squeak wrinkles
Intersperse the wall
Like stripes of mancho vein
Feasting termites
Soft piercing plumpy bugs
Insatiable like raven
Eager for more crumbs
Sleak paraboic
Spreading gust
Like wide fires of Australia
Drowsily; rousy with dust
This house is breaking
Its foundation is shaky even
All-a-quiver; settlers and denizen
Hope is anemic; cadaverous
This house is breaking
Breaking loose with contagion
Its fences have fallen over
Over on other rooftops and beyond
-poems of Collins Aiterebhe
NOT BY CHANCE
Bright flashes - meteors
Solar wind of flares
Barrage debris of boulders
Dangerous than billions of
hydrogen bombs
Cosmic radiation of the sun
A visible aurora
The astronomy of physics
Of relentless gale-force
of meteoriods
In this galactics of shooting gallery
A big blue ball is swimming
With relative impunity
Stretching to space an amazing armour
Of tinted atmosphere of ozones
And spinning gut of molten iron
A prime real estate, a perfect powerhouse
A strong appearance of design;
Cleverly engineered
Beyond remarkably steep angles
To defeat transcripted biomimetics
And rubbish the human mimicry
That earth was just by chance!
-poems of Collins Aiterebhe
IFEOMA
Let fire flies fall
Let the mountains crack
My love shall still remain
Bury your gray eyes in my dark
Hug me into your frankincense
From Cote d'Azur to Brittany
We shall sit above the blue sky
And oversee the blue sea
Of Chamonix-Mont-Blanc
The white dove flourishes it tail
We shall walk Eiffel Tower in fist-lock
And down even to Arc de Triomphe
Our differences died
To the mirrored ignorance
Of amazed white faces
I vowed to love you forever
To the heavenlies
And nevertheless
-poems of Collins Aiterebhe
MARRIAGE OF THE SOUTH
One Fr John Bull
Of the Elizabethan faith
Took Tolu and Uloma
Blind underage virgins
Veilless brides
Bako led emissaries
Wide and tall
Love danced at a million mile
To the dead lullaby
Of stuttering rifle shots
Rites were paid with haste
And the South was given away!
-poems of Collins Aiterebhe
I DIED YESTERDAY
I died yesterday
The rosy sky was blue
Yet no path helds sway
Hope dangled with no clue
I died yesterday
Under the weight of humiliation
Following your arrival in May
The birth of recession
I died yesterday
Before your very eyes
Ranchers made slay
And you say all are but lies
I died yesterday
Yes I died, to deluding promises
Buried to decay
With empty eulogies
I died to give change a new name
The very holiness you portray
A lopsided nepotic charade you became
Integrity I never knew could betray
I died, I died
Yet you appointed me a deadman
Charred and dried
Indeed, you need a scan
I died yesterday
I died for sinners outside your clique
Hunted in utter dismay
In your reawakened rise to the peak
I died in the open monastery
The zenith of religious intolerance
The height of unguided mystery
Egregiously watching us in glance!
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- The Journey Through The Tunnel
- I Believe
- Nitty-gritty
- HOW LONG?
- WE DANCED THE CULTURAL DANCE
- HAPPY NEW MONTH
- LIVE NOT LIFE
- MY CHILDHOOD DAYS
- SEASON OF IRONY
- Black and Beautiful
- Money and Sapa
- Shades of Penury
- PROUDLY AFRICAN
- WHERE IS THE LAND I COME FROM
- ISN'T THIS ROSEMARY?
- "Robbery"
- No Man Is An Island
- DARKNESS
- Silence
- TRY AGAIN
- ODE TO A TROUBADOUR
- WARSHIP
- TENANTS OF THE HOUSE
- HERMIT
- Hilltop Rose
- Glitch
- WE LOVE SOCCER
- TALES OF A NATION
- My Personal Dairy
- *Bleeding Nation*
- Time
- Anticipated Coming
- The greatest gift (mother's day poem)
- Become The Man You Plan To Be
- Your Voice
- Where do we go wrong
- When I'm no More
- TALENT
- THE LIFE I WANT
- A day shall come
- Morning
- The view from Ugele hill
- More about love
- Reminisces on the eve of my departure
- PLUG
- To my wife if I leave
- I am not dirty
- Aloof from your "crazy"
- Brigandage
- Dying declarations
- A flag at bay
- Getting hurt
- Ode to my TUTOR
- My Muse
- Do Not Go Nigeria
- A trip to insanity
- The warrior i became.
- DEMIDEVIL Night 7th
- Caged
- Felicity
- When I Am No More
- One Time Lovers
- Gift me a lotus tree
- A Poor Boy's Love
- Why must love hurt so?
- THE CURSED CROSS
- The danger I love
- Dreamer's dream
- Anchor
- This and that
- Sapa
- SILENT
- /maɪ mjuːz/
- HER
- Only Human
- Easy
- FRENEMIES
- BELOVED STRANGERS
- BEFORE I DIE
- OUR PUNCTURED PRIDE
- Just Give Us Hope
- The calling
- What legacy shall I leave behind
- Unfinished
- This and that
- Beauty from ashes
- OGÚN
- I'll go and talk to the President
- Messiah's coming
- LOVE THE GREATEST EVANGELISM
- As He Is !
- SAY THE WORD
- The Mystery of God's Love (ADITU)
- Never change the way you are
- Family
- Knowing God's Will
- A Minute
- It's Really Up To You
- MEET UP
- SERENITY’S SOLO
- Stay With Me Nigeria
- Stereotypic Nepotistic Politricks
- KOLA
- Frenemies
- MYSTERY
- A Proud Heritage
- Happiness is a moment's job
- MY WHOLE LIFE
- Executhieves, Sinators and Authorithieves
- I AM HAPPY TO BE ME
- Lone Wolf
- I L Y
- Do-Re-Me-Fo-Sa-La-Ti-Do
- The Voice Of God
- Forbidden Love
- The Mystery of God's Love ADITU)
- the day walks into the sunset
- Cry....And Let Me See
- Alone
- I Am Me
- meet me where the traffic jams
- Can You Sing?
- and then i left the room
- Abnormal man
- Backup Plan
- My Heart Still Hurt
- Never Leave
- A Lost Smile
- THE END OF THE TIDE THAT CAME
- A New Leaf
- As A Country Soweth. . .
- Covid 19
- My lovely mother
- BERCEUSE
- "On a Good day"
- Udi and the Animals
- LISTEN YOU UNRULY SON OF THIS LAND.
- Quotable quotes
- Imu mechien
- DNA TEST (The African way) For Tunde Thomas
- The Crowned King
- Scared To Love
- Ballad from the grave
- Fortitude
- THE ROAD TO THE NORTH, LEADS HOME.
- Religion
- Bad Government
- Take Your Bread With Love
- The Sunset.
- Kankara
- One angle from the basket
- The Human Rose
- Regrets, Insecurities and Fears
- Watch Her
- In every shade - the book
- ITEKUN
- The Failed Creation
- New Axis From Excavation
- Uncaging
- The first journey
- Vain Learnings
- Irony of Life
- Take Your Bread With Love
- Prayer
- Teacher
- Risk
- Living Water
- IGBOBONELIMI
- Child Heart
- Myself
- Who are you?
- Only You
- When We Hurt Someone We Love
- Time
- Walking alone..but not
- Trapped
- Dust....an understanding
- LOOSE ME
- I Know Of a Place
- IDAHOMI
- THE MINER FOR THE GOLD
- The Warld
- Sometimes
- Falling star
- I’m Sorry My Friends
- Sowing Creed
- TRACK LEFT UNMARKED (A RUINED GENERATION)
- THE WANDERER
- REVOLUTION
- Failed Fellowship
- Our Darling Lover
- THE MERGE
- XMAS AT BOUNDARY
- WE CAUSE TALL TREES TO SPRANG
- A Beautiful Suicide
- Stupid era
- Drop of tears
- LOVE ON THE WEB
- EVENING SUN
- LOVE EN TOTAL
- Unhappy Me
- ODE TO MAMBILA PLATEAU
- GOD'S HAND
- Let Me
- Bukky-Go-Round
- Stay at Home
- I
- ODE TO ANAMBRA WAXBILL BIRD
- NOT AFRAID (for Lekki massacres)
- Dirty Glasses
- The Call Of Nigeria
- A NEW NIGERIA IS BORN
- October 20, 2020
- THE GOWN OF TROUBLE
- NO MORE SARS NO MORE SWAT NO MORE POLICE BRUTALITY
- Pastoral
- Curiosity
- Top of the Ladder
- ENDING SARS
- BEFORE THE HARD CLAPPING (For those that died of coronavirus)
- Night Night
- MIRAGE ( A sonnet )
- GIRLS HIGH IN DESIRES
- This Time
- Virus
- Independent
- Covid 19
- ELERGY TO JOHN PEPPER CLARK
- MY GIRL IS UPSTREET GIRL
- HEARTS BREAK SLOWLY
- CEASELESS FLOW
- LOVE ME LIKE A RIVER
- HAIL HER
- A TRUE STORY IN THE NORTH
- RAIN HOW SWEET THE SOUND
- THE LAND WITHOUTH EASE
- WHERE IS THE OLD ME?
- A CHILD'S HEART
- OH GARRI, MY GARRI
- I CAN'T MARRY A POETESS
- DESERTED
- LIKE A PREY
- AN UNFORGETTABLE DAY IN THE NORTH
- SOMEWHERE IN THE NORTH
- THE VOID
- REUBEN UGOCHUKWU
- OUR JOY RESTORED
- NIGHTMARE
- THAT SEASONED NIGERIA
- A Squirrel Hunter
- National Youth Service Corps
- FEAR
- GOING HOME
- HOW LONG
- THIS HOUSE IS BREAKING
- NOT BY CHANCE
- IFEOMA
- MARRIAGE OF THE SOUTH
- I DIED YESTERDAY
- SIP FROM THE SEA
- I'm Black
- TRACK LEFT UNMARKED (A RUINED GENERATION)
- It's Raining
- JUST FOR A WHILE
- YOU ARE AMAZING
- CATCH THE LOVE YOUNG
- STREETS OF KAULA
- HAPPINESS
- Wind
- BEAUTIFUL WITCH
- The Architect
- The Earth and the Starry Heavens
- Take me to the altar
- Message to Myself
- I'm that black child
- And we danced not again
- Our Plea
- Doma’s Call
- Pandora
- Sour Libido
- The Lad's Cries
- BLACK'S WITHOUT WHITE'S
- Take a shot now
- The State Of African Leaders
- Knowledge Sleeping in our Department
- Her Voice On The Phone
- ONCE UPON A BEAUTY
- Another great mind lost
- Buried me not with the great
- If I Die Tonight
- Nigeria 🇳🇬
- My Rose 🌹 Lover
- On Love
- Sons of the slave masters
- Great Men Of Valour
- Launched in the deep
- Freedom In View
- Old Mrs Idunnu
- The old us
- Letter To The HEART
- Bullies
- Captive
- SENTIMENTS (A HEART OF BOLD)
- RANDOM FORCE OF EMOTIONS (LOST SOUL)
- Write Me A Poem
- I Have Found You Here
- Her Request
- MY DYING MOTHER
- WAITING FOR THE RAIN
- You don't have to be me to be you
- Fleeting Anguish
- FAKE LOVER
- Morning Glory
- BRUISES
- The Hope of Someday
- The raining days
- SMILE NOW
- A LITTLE PLANT
- Life is like melody
- Who is behind whispering?
- Covid-19's delicacy
- A Life For A Life
- Mama Africa
- Eagle eyes
- I'll write about i
- My mother
- Life in medical school
- What is home?
- My ex
- Ponder
- Lessons from the coronavirus pandemic
- Fragrance
- ASTOUND VISITOR
- Rise Again
- ALKEBULAN
- MEMORIES OF ME
- COVID19
- RONA
- Unspoken words
- Mr president
- Fallen
- BEAUTY OF LOVE
- Your wish
- My first kiss
- Why should I hire you?
- Abiodun
- The Sonnet
- The Light Over Andoni
- Change
- Port Harcourt
- It Is Futile To Sneer At Alaké
- I Won't Forget You Even If You Limp
- Glory
- 1914
- To The End Of The World
- August Child
- A Million Charms
- Her Silence
- Excuses
- Grachi
- Keep Your Love Close And Your Sword Closer
- Dark
- Only The Brave
- All My Loving
- Heroine
- Paradise on Earth
- I Will Be Silent
- RAVISHING RABI
- AFRICA
- TRYING TIME
- 18 plus one...
- The world has gone to war
- Mirage
- APO TO AREA 1
- PANDEMIC
- VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
- The Road
- Depression- A struggle
- Farewell in Harmattan
- The fear of tomorrow
- Stories Untold
- AWAITING HER CUM
- ...Here
- Bread for the wise
- Feel
- The Breeze
- Partial Exit
- Roses in a Vase
- Home
- DARKNESS
- There
- A LETTER TO MY LOVER FROM THE DARK
- THE REALITY OF MY SMILE
- MY WATERMELON
- Even When No One Does
- DEEPEST TOUCH
- THE JOURNEY
- JUSTICE
- ADDICTION
- Depression
- Virtue
- Drenched in esctacy
- The Coin
- IGARA CHICKEN
- OUR HUNCHBACK
- CORRUPTION
- The Stranger I Love
- The Man in my Youth
- My First Beautiful Beast
- Love, what have you done?
- IT IS A LOAN
- The Future
- POLYGAMY
- SAVE THE NATION
- Above the law.
- At our age (1st October)
- Because I Love
- PROSPERITY POWER
- MAINTAINING SUCCESS
- Belief
- m͠o͠t͠h͠e͠r͠s͠
- FAKE LOVE
- UNDER MY COVER
- LET'S UNITE DESPITE OUR DIFFERENCE
- Why you let me down?
- The Girl I'll Marry
- Lists of littlest things
- The Sound of Alert
- ....Serenade
- BIRD IN A CAGE
- HAND OF D
- DEATH
- My world
- STRIVING TO SUCCEED
- Moooooooo.........
- Your Best
- Nature's beat
- What if
- Anger trapped in a jar
- Recognition
- Blade of Secrets
- Akalamagbo
- DONATELLA
- Horrible Sight
- An End of You
- Limerick
- Hate Me Not
- SOLOMON GRUNDY
- Child Seize the Air
- Dignity
- Tragic Comedy
- Faceless
- The Renegade
- Which Way?
- Little world
- Renegade Of June 12
- Ogbanje
- Ode To A Beauty
- A Bicycle Learner
- Across The Niger
- Noises Of The River
- Things that I miss (Poem in four parts)
- Jagaban Borgu
- The Interment
- Lullaby
- The Bargain For Life
- The Locked Country
- LOVE U LIKE THIS
- Never AGAIN
- YOUTHiLITY
- Scars
- Distress
- A Funny Girl
- Ibara in the sun
- Poetry..
- The Black Woman
- Ogori
- Time
- Humble The Poet
- The Path
- Pleasant Sight
- The Wretched Of The Earth
- ROSARY
- REQUIEM MAY 29
- THRENODY
- WHAT IF I SAID I LOVE YOU
- REVENGE TIME
- Far beauty
- Letter To My Son
- A MAN SHOULD BE ALONE
- Drop The Picture, Pick the Nature
- Rain
- Eve of my daughter's wedding
- THE BOOK YOU GAVE ME
- DEAR
- Sonnet XXX: what am I
- Characters from the Grave
- Rainbow: An African Girl
- PRESS ON
- Nostalgia
- Silence
- AFRICA
- The Story In My Head (II)
- Remember Us This Way
- JUSTICE HAS BEEN BUTCHERED
- Why Should I?
- OSELUS (THE POLITICIANS)
- DILEMMA OF HOPE
- THE SOLDIERS HOPE
- THE PROCESSION
- THE MINISTER
- BLAME IT ON THE MONEY
- OUR SARS
- THEY SAY OUR SKIN IS DARK
- THE CONVERSATION
- UNLOCK MON CŒUR.
- DO YOU?
- I, Too
- Ours to Fare, not to Fear
- Imagine
- Butterfly
- RABBIT STEW
- *Fun era* *(Funeral)*
- An hole for you
- O Sambisa
- Never Far Away!
- Ire
- We've been waiting
- My Scars
- Song for things
- The Nigerian Sonnet
- Life & me
- ….. Not like this
- ...By myself
- UNIT TESTS
- Sa Ni Da Pa
- LONELINESS
- SORRY
- MONEY - SAHAJ SABHARWAL
- NOTHING MUCH FOR MINORS
- Relaxation
- EDUCATION
- MOTHER
- RESPECT
- Independent
- Split Horizon
- Not for you...
- SLAVES
- HEALING OF THE SOUL
- The Female of our species
- Democracy in Nigeria
- Die to yourself
- To love the wrong
- Dear Madame
- Makanre!
- At the steps
- To all those who were weird in class
- Ode To Fledging Stars
- Gracious Words
- Bodies
- Girls
- A woman shouldn't stare
- He is Risen
- Tales by Moonlight
- Caribbean Mind
- Time
- A Rainy Night in a Nigerian City
- Struck Dumb
- BEYOUTIFUL
- Who Is Who Africa?
- My Love
- Throwback Thursday
- DARKNESS
- Bring Back Our Girls
- PATHS
- A sick Egret
- I'm All Yours
- I remember
- We Are Never Forgotten
- Happy Sabbath
- Say no to drugs
- Forever And Always
- In Memory of Mrs A. O. Oloniyo
- The Butterfly
- Sometimes You Are
- Have I Told You Yet
- purpose for living?
- THE WAILING PEN
- Since the blood!!!
- Come back!
- Dream right!!!!!
- Bird in Bush
- When life kick you in the mouth!!!
- The Princess
- Young Lady
- Mother Teresa's Anyway Poem
- The Valley of Vision
- I see a new Nigeria
- I Love My Mama
- Agidigbo
- Virus of the Mind
- VACATION
- All About Girls
- A Soldier's Daughter
- I Am Not A Victim Of Breast Cancer
- From My Heart
- The Lonely Guy
- When the going is getting better
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