Now watching her funeral
She weeps not her death
Awful awkward hypocrisy
Heads down to mourn
Feast and feast so fast
While her body lie in state
But she died of hunger
Maggot crawled her wounds
Friends fled to be friends
Day after day she... – by Benson Chukwueke | 55 Views added 2 months ago
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Ojuelegba sleep
O, where is sleep
On this insomniac night
Aroused by songs of music
Blaring through the holy hours
As bachelors seek for bedmate
Husbands ran away from home
From the torment of their nagging wives
And adventure into the... – by Benson Chukwueke | 25 Views added 3 months ago
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Oga Preseedo, we hear you
You say make we tighten our belt
Make we de saakpa, de live a fasting life
Cos dis time naa austere times
But you loose di rope of your shokoto
And sit-don dey chop life
Ten wraps of amala with éwedu soup
With... – by Benson Chukwueke | 74 Views added 3 months ago
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We know you now
Chief cook of the evil one
We know you
Stirring bitters to boil hot
And cooking trouble
Is your favourite dish
Slaughtered many lambs
Eating flesh and drinking blood
Refresh your stony heart
Stalking kins and friends
... – by Benson Chukwueke | 26 Views added 4 months ago
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Today starts differently
Morning breaks chill fog
No rain, No thunder
Just a dried cold December morning
It is a new season
I can feel its power
With the smell of rain still on my nose
My lungs breathe meek dust
Which signals... – by Benson Chukwueke | 17 Views added 4 months ago
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I saw the gathering in the temple
Among men of God
I heard them whisper in low tone
And talked about the fading love
They spoke about a new age doctrine
And the heresy so proclaimed
Which has swayed so many souls away
And brought murmur... – by Benson Chukwueke | 61 Views added 4 months ago
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I know you still feel ebullient
But you have to watch your steps now
Cos you're not as powerful
Nor as strong, as you use to be
You're sick, my black giant, you're very sick
You suffer from this deadly cankerworm
Which has eaten deep into... – by Benson Chukwueke | 32 Views added 4 months ago
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They journeyed back to the past
Digging deep into archives vast
Day and night they laboured on
Unearthing bones from ancient tombs
In search of the lost tongue
The mother tongue of Urhobo
The rope that bound the people as one
Lost in the... – by Benson Chukwueke | 99 Views added 4 months ago
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He hasn't grown any business worth a penny
But stand on the podium teaching many
How to gain financial freedom
At this neophyte investors forum
Dressed like a millionaire
But has no experience to bring to bear
His voice sounded so... – by Benson Chukwueke | 43 Views added 4 months ago
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Who's in control, I ask?
The man, they say, the master of the house
My husband is my king
A lion, feared by all
When he roars, the whole city quake
But I made his weakness my strength
Cos I know how to scheme my way
With crocodile tears, a... – by Benson Chukwueke | 65 Views added 5 months ago
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The clock set off alarm, it was 12 midnight
And my mind wandered, lost in the night
Where on earth would she be now?
The uncertainty raised my eyes brow
Would it be, she had an accident?
I pray, a good Samaritan, heaven-sent
Found her... – by Benson Chukwueke | 43 Views added 5 months ago
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Hey, Everyone that thirst
Come to the water
He that has no money
Come, buy and eat
Come buy wine and fresh milk
Without money, with no price
You labour for what isn't bread
You spend so much for less
Why do you struggle day and night
For... – by Benson Chukwueke | 85 Views added 7 months ago
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I chose the wild road to run
I thought to stray away was fun
So I turn a deaf ear to my father's call
I thought my mother was old fashion after all
So I threw tantrums back at her
At sixteen, I thought I knew better
I knew the answer to all... – by Benson Chukwueke | 115 Views added 7 months ago
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It's better to say NO,
Don't say you don't know,
Cos it shows not on the face,
But think of the ordeals you'll face
Your life and future at stake,
Before making the same mistake.
It's but some minutes of fun,
Then you're forever done.
For... – by Benson Chukwueke | 44 Views added 7 months ago
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Are you traveling to Oron to be lost
In the mysteries and secrets of Ekpe, the Bermuda triangle
lban Isong, a land deeply rooted in the ocean
With queen of the coast, daughters of mermaid
Of the marine race inhabit this town
A man who visits... – by Benson Chukwueke | 161 Views added 7 months ago
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When law and order broke down on the street,
And people run riotous, with no retreat,
Looting and destroying city's core,
Youth, in their recklessness, yearn for war.
But only those who've witnessed war's cruel face,
Can truly cherish peace... – by Benson Chukwueke | 90 Views added 8 months ago
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All through wee hours of the morning
Laminga wail their missing persons, mourning
And the track road leading into Amurum forest
Stained with droplets of blood down the terraced
Searching into sunrise by Lafon river parts
headless corpses,... – by Benson Chukwueke | 117 Views added 8 months ago
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When we lost Ernest Okonkwo to the cold hands of death, football lost too.
The beautiful flower that adorn the beautiful game withered away
We still mourn his demise to this day
It was a huge loss and the big shoes he left, we are yet to find... – by Benson Chukwueke | 168 Views added 10 months ago
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Demons hatched from isolated shell
Has brought down to us hell
Simple men with simple lives
Introverts, quiet and withdrawn
Summoned to fight this cause
Trained as suicide bombers
Bomb strapped around their own bodies
Airplane hijacked
... – by Benson Chukwueke | 226 Views added 11 months ago
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Not once, I caught you stealing a glance at me
from a distance undressing me top to bottom
with your eyes secret lusting
salivating a married woman
And when I caught you in the act
you dropped your eyes like a sheepish little boy
swiftly... – by Benson Chukwueke | 103 Views added 12 months ago
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He gazed upon the skies
A view of a wandering eyes
Hallow eyes, filled with emptiness
Hopelessness and sadness
He was afraid of his own shadow
Cos his mind has become so shallow
He was afraid of tomorrow
He was afraid to live another day... – by Benson Chukwueke | 173 Views added 1 year ago
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Paddling down Luubara creek
As I explore the riverine this week
I saw oil spilled like blood
Over the water surface flood
Stench smell of rotten dishes
Flies buzzing on dead fishes
Floating and tossed by the waves
Trees wear out as the... – by Benson Chukwueke | 140 Views added 1 year ago
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Arriving that evening
through the window screen
I saw the sign
THIS IS LAGOS
And the hustle began
No slacking on this fast lane
Agbero yells in a raspy voice
No bus parking to wait for you
Here in Lagos
Passengers jump like monkeys
unto... – by Benson Chukwueke | 212 Views added 1 year ago
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We waited till minutes turn into hour
As People troop out to exercise their power
Time to reflect the decision we were about to take
Will our vote count with what is at stake
Is it to return tribal leaders in our city
or to install fresh men... – by Benson Chukwueke | 122 Views added 1 year ago
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Sometimes, better to dig it up
Right from the root
And expose it to daylight
Cos' it's not good for a man to sleep all day
And not wake up to his responsibilities
It's not normal
If he pushes his wife out to the street
To hustle and to fend... – by Benson Chukwueke | 208 Views added 1 year ago
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Dopamine release lingers
with continuous touch of her fingers
caressing through its brightened face
so it opens up to her, in real time and space
in text, audio and video,
in such a romantic tango
She loves to live in the screen world
... – by Benson Chukwueke | 135 Views added 1 year ago
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All the time, all my life
I've been chasing a dream
of catching the wind
But how could I explain the gleam
Without confounding the mind
Of things the senses cannot perceive
Is hard to believe
So how could I explain
Things only the heart... – by Benson Chukwueke | 211 Views added 1 year ago
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Now you look down on your people
As you drive pass the street full throttle
Cos' the brothers you have betrayed
You dare not look up into their eyes
Your kinsmen, your friends
Together you once drink and dine
Who voted you into office
To... – by Benson Chukwueke | 81 Views added 1 year ago
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The room turned upside down
Pieces of papers littered the floor
With scribbles of his will
Ink spill over the bedsheet
Ball stamp on the wall
No doubt, this is the deed
The signature of my dear son
Just three year old,... – by Benson Chukwueke | 64 Views added 2 years ago
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I'm not a traditional poet
As you may think Wole Soyinka
Who writes in form and pattern
I'm only a man of romantics
Who love to paint words and polish lines
Until it becomes flower verse
They are not cast on a stone,
Or like gold, tried... – by Benson Chukwueke | 226 Views added 2 years ago
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I'm the last hour Preacher
The end time Teacher
And I speak to you O men
Who have eyes to see
Let them see
The signs of the sea
The waters rumbling
Nature grumbling
At wicked human actions
Nation war against nations
Nuclear missile fired... – by Benson Chukwueke | 238 Views added 2 years ago
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Of what use is this strange therapy
that claims to make people happy
But doesn't prevent nor cure
Just a forced vaccination to ensure
A gene of this nomenclature
Is injected to alter the human nature
But is this the mark of the beast
Every... – by Benson Chukwueke | 316 Views added 2 years ago
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A god has been born to us
But we didn't know
The wise men in the east saw the star
But didn't know
Didn’t the prophet foretell his coming
Didn’t an angel visit his mother
The mother who first felt the kick in her womb
The movement of a... – by Benson Chukwueke | 178 Views added 2 years ago
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Now no exchange of gunfire
No bombshell razed the forest
All is quite and calm in the land
So quite as dead night
When we wrestle with heavyweight
In a fight to overcome our fears
A battle, largely unseen pains in our hearts
Only in the... – by Benson Chukwueke | 218 Views added 3 years ago
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Is this my country or is it hell
Is it the fire I must go through to live well
Living here in my fatherland
Living with an empty hand
Wallowing for not following
The diabolical wind billowing
Is this the pressure that push the weak to fall
... – by Benson Chukwueke | 290 Views added 3 years ago
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For all men who seek adventure
Sambisa is Death
Hell is just a mile from this forest
The sun burn sulphur and brimstone
The flies, the obnoxious musicians
Hum repugnant songs into my ears
Sharia drums it so hard and loud
The law shall flog... – by Benson Chukwueke | 124 Views added 3 years ago
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Suddenly, the earth began to tremble
As the lighting thunderbolts
The pounding boots of the rebel soldiers
Like hooves of surging wildebeest
Marching across Mara river
Marching into the heart of our town
They have come to conscript our... – by Benson Chukwueke | 108 Views added 3 years ago
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I saw him last with the infantry battalion
After the fall of Okigwe town
I saw him disappear with the Bandwagon
After Biafra raised the white flag
I saw his blood boiling hot
Forty years after the civil war
I saw him still singing the war song... – by Benson Chukwueke | 108 Views added 3 years ago
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Chameleon has not been known to keep it's colour
It would always speak with two tongues
The sweet tongues of a politician
Promising heaven on earth
Is only praying to steal our votes
After then, we can go to... – by Benson Chukwueke | 62 Views added 3 years ago
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