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Adjekawen Jeremiah Agberia hails from Ughelli south of Delta State, Nigeria. He is currently studying law at the Niger Delta University, Wilberforce Island, Bayelsa State, Nigeria. The young poet of Uhrobo origin, who started writing poetry at the age of fifteen, is the firstborn son, amongs three brothers, of a single mother. Works of poetry penned by A.A. Jeremiah (his pen name), are mostly centered around love, romance, politics and betrayal; and, a few, on melancholy and nature. Adjekawen Jeremiah Agberia hails from Ughelli south of Delta State, Nigeria. He is currently studying law at the Niger Delta University, Wilberforce Island, Bayelsa State, Nigeria. The young poet of Uhrobo origin, who started writing poetry at the age of fifteen, is the firstborn son, amongs three brothers, of a single mother. Works of poetry penned by A.A. Jeremiah (his pen name), are mostly centered around love, romance, politics and betrayal; and, a few, on melancholy and nature.

  March 2022     1 month ago

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Silence Wails

A dose of attention
may cure abandonment
A spoonful of care
may cure loneliness
No medicine can cure
The boredom I feel inside

I watch the pot burn on the fire
I am too weak of will to intervene
As it’s content burn and ooze away
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A wolf!

See a wolf!
A failed wolf in his desirous desire for power;
Lost behind the hour
Brands himself a messiah
sent down to salvage the flock.
A wolf!

He stands at the podium to preach peace
And what red is that by his lips?
The blood of...

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Crooked Chain

The oppressors oppressed,
The oppressed oppresses those
they can oppress,
so and so does the chain stretch
Stretching straight into faint distance.

The Peasant, Peasant indeed
Short changes the peasants in need
The peasant in need
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Beyond the wild river

Lawful union outlawed
Blissful yoke sinful deemed
This speaks of age gap widened
That of two faiths divergent.
But aren’t age just arithmetic?
I won’t be forever sixteen.

Same worlds divergent
Parted by creeds and dogmas.
Unevenly yoke...

by Adjekawen A. Jeremiah

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I Feel Sixteen

What could be sweeter
Than that stolen?
What could be more satisfying
than a bite from a fruit
dangling from a tree?
I contemplate aloud,
catching a glimpse
of your body afar;
What a creature
I’ve come to see!

You have a lover
I...

by Adjekawen A. Jeremiah

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thank you very much bro

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Thanks a lot

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Nice thoughts

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Thanks a lot! I'm glad you like it.

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Wow! Such perfect lines. Thanks for sharing, Abi.

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Nice piece!

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