poem: Saints and Sinners

They seethe and fume
Of our despotism
Our tyranny,
And corruption

They flaunt
Wealth, power
Good governance,
Justice and fairness
At our faces

Yet, these two-faced crooks
Swell their treasuries
With funds looted
From our coffers

They enrich
Their museums
With artefacts
Stolen
From our
Hapless nations

But they are saints
We are sinners


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poem: NIGER DELTA AMNESTY

They streak
From the creeks
Their watery fortress
Young and old
Militants, they are
Of the Niger Delta
Armed to the teeth
Like Delta Force

Hazard they were
To the pipelines,
Terrors to the oil men
Shudders they sent
To the government
Jitters to the world

Hidden scars haunt
Victims, of their kidnap
Agony and sorrow
Hang in homes
Of folks
Whose kiths and kins
Were felled by
Bullets from their barrels

Marginalisation feeds
Their passion
Ransom filled their coffers
Stolen crude oil
Fuelled their greed

Now they throng
To lay weapons, they clutched
With vehemence, and vigour
To escape the creeks
Where some lived as lords,
Most as serfs

To embrace government
They vowed to repulse
Ahoy, they drop their guards
To give peace a chance!


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poem: GLOBAL WARMING

The buds shrink
Starved by the receding water table
The leaves don the colour
Of the scorched red earth
Subdued by the sun

My crops, my life
On a date with uncertain weather
Threatened
By the deadly advance of
Desertification
The handyman of
Global warming and
Climate change

A parched land, for wetland
And flood for droplets
Gone is the minor season
And the hazy Harmattan

Trees I have chopped
To feed my baby
And bush I burn
To enrich the soil
For fertilizers, and ‘cides are
Beyond my reach
And mechanise farming
For me, a myth

I burn the wood
For coal and fuel
As cooking gas and cooker
Are all for the rich

To warm the globe
Is not my ploy
To change the clime
I desire less

I live my life
With the choices I have
To save myself
Or save the world


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poem: USAIN ‘LIGHTNING’ BOLT

Usain Lightning Bolt,
The fastest man on earth
A speeding legend
Faster than a cheetah
Ferrari or jet

Long before the
Silence of the whistle
Sprints him past the
Finishing line
Like a lightning
Trailed by a thunder

Usain Lightning Bolt,
True to his name
A worry to peers
To catch him if they could

Usain Bolt
A streak of lightning
World, Olympic, or local
Records tremble before him
And tumble
Beneath his swift feet
Medals adorn his wall

There goes the whistle!
There sprints the Bolt!
Usain Bolt
A streak of lightning
Catch him if you can!

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poem: FAMILIARITY

The Agama lizard
Invited to
The living room
To feast on an infestation
Of ants, and mites
Does so, skirting around
Whilst wagging its tail
To the disdain
Of the housekeeper

A man granted
An inch
Grabs a mile
To the vexation
Of his benefactor

A child offered
A handshake
Reaches for the elbow
To the dismay
Of the senior

Likewise does Familiarity
The wayward child
Of Intimacy,
Begotten by Knowledge
Breeds the insolent son –
Contempt!


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poem: A WOMAN SCORNED

So hell has no fury
Like a woman scorned.
'Cos she razes to ground
All along her path
Reducing edifices to
Ground Zeroes
Annihilating utterly
The soulless
And heartless man

Ah, no bigger myth
Have I heard
Nor greater fable
Have I read
Than this legend
Of woman scorned
And her fury
Bigger than hell

So I say
Spare me myth makers
Spare me legend writers
This incredible tales
Of your woman scorned!

Tell me tales of
That man scorned.
Make me fables
Of his raging hell
Write me books of
His extreme fury,
And less stale tales of
A woman scorned

In this age
Of equalities
Should a heart
Be less than
A heart
Or a scorn be less
Than
A scorn
For gender sake?


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