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Lamentation
(Poetry)
11-06-2007
by Amodu O. Razaq
The sleeper has gone to bed
And the earth is about to shut
Its door, after when the active has shed
Some tears, waiting for the dead to come
The sleeper has gone to bed
And the earth is about to move
The still is laid in his bed...
Sonnet for love
(Poetry)
11-06-2007
by Amodu O. Razaq
Love, so called love
From the heart of the mortal
Many problems you solve
And you are fatal
True love they say
Dropped down from the cavalry
The debt no one can pay
Tho' not done in awry
The love of now is lust
All in heart...
The husband of my mother
(Poetry)
11-06-2007
by Amodu O. Razaq
''we all live like a rose
that shines during the day
but when the sun goes to its place
it goes,wither with the day''
for my mother, my...
A voice from the grave
(Poetry)
28-06-2007
by Amodu O. Razaq
i am a poet
a poet of life
i came from dust
and i will to the grave
this is my voice
so tiny and sore
a word of advice
which will live when i'm gone
a voice from the grave
where the peace lives
peace and cold
all of the...
At the River Bank
(Poetry)
25-08-2007
by Amodu O. Razaq
I will take you to the river bank
Where the breeze is cold and fresh
No spy will look
Between the palm trees
But the tree will dance
For I will sing you
A love jingle
With the long tolling of a bell
Because you love me
I will sing...
Barricaded day
(Poetry)
25-08-2007
by Amodu O. Razaq
The more this day grow
And this sun shines
I can feel my closeness
To the heaven, the place of peace
This tick-tack of time
Roving and moving with no stop
Makes me think and thus
Weakens my soul the more
Every day I ripen the more...
Black or White
(Poetry)
25-08-2007
by Amodu O. Razaq
Which would you have?
Of this white or black dame
So white a dame
Shall my soul bereave
‘Cause I’m black at heart
White dame shall at my world cavil
Black shall smile in my hut near the hill
‘Cause I’m black at heart
Lat me wade...
Here at home
(Poetry)
16-08-2007
by Amodu O. Razaq
here in my home
when i tread on the soil
of where i was not but a child
here at home
infant die of hunger
the old and the young
live on the old path
that give not hope
but to the people of the last
when shall all we see
the way...
Ikere
(Poetry)
2-06-2007
by Amodu O. Razaq
Ikere, a rush broke
ancient town, oozing out
knowledge, surrounded by ill hill
of antiquity trees where the devils
reside.
Lamentation
(Poetry)
28-06-2007
by Amodu O. Razaq
The sleeper has gone to bed
And the earth is about to shut
It door, after when the active has shed
Some tears, waiting for the dead to come
The sleeper has gone to bed
And the earth is about to move
The still is laid in his bed
And...
Letters to Catherine Akhigbe 1
(Poetry)
25-08-2007
by Amodu O. Razaq
O! My lovely Kate
I have been away from you a-while
After when I left you in the state
That hurly-burly of the west
I journeyed all through the night
A journey without a nap
And I passed through some strange
And unknown lands, a home to...
Lost beauty
(Poetry)
11-06-2007
by Amodu O. Razaq
the beauty of our land is lost
afar back before i was born
when the unsung heroes all fought
with their lives all gone
beautiful, our land is meant to be
in fleet when we rove the town
fading the beauty is all we see
we all need to...
Melancholy II
(Poetry)
12-08-2008
by Amodu O. Razaq
At the dawn of early morn
As soon as she was born,
Above the sky the sun shone
To bid her welcome into the world all alone.
Some time afore the midday,
The sun never hid and it bade her come.
She said no for her soul never wanted to go...
Our right
(Interviews)
4-03-2008
by Amodu O. Razaq
Our right is our power
And our power is our right
The vote we cast is our right
But our right ceased to be our power
The power is with the powers
And our power is our power
We shall stay at home
When is time to exercise our power...
The blind boy
(Poetry)
7-08-2008
by Amodu O. Razaq
Each time you trace your path home
I see you searching the path with your guide.
Though slow you never miss your way home.
Are you truly blind or sighted faint?
You are blind; you scratch the earth
With your guide, to left and to right....
The Cupid Arrow
(Poetry)
2-06-2007
by Amodu O. Razaq
I didn't wish to stay
'Hi' was all i wanted to say
I said hi and wanted to pass you by
you eyed me and moved me nigh
You hit my heart with the cupid bow
Suddenly i bent down low
The demise
(Poetry)
28-05-2007
by Amodu O. Razaq
here is not a place
for the lilies to lie
another one has gone
and the muezzin calls
for the last prayer of the day
the cock has crowed
to announce the death
of the dawn
the ember is dead
and leave the ashes to the poor life
every...
The man with the glory
(Poetry)
11-06-2007
by Amodu O. Razaq
O! the man with the glory
Where are your glories kept
Tho' you walk on the red carpet
Before you passed to glory
Where is the man and his glory
And the glory went with the man
The new hope
(Poetry)
11-06-2007
by Amodu O. Razaq
Now you put yourself
Under the bondage of old serpent
In the little robe of yellowish green
Of the tender palm leave
you live in the dark and your sight myopic
You plod all the street
Of the village whipping
Little children of...
The New Year's eve night
(Poetry)
11-06-2007
by Amodu O. Razaq
as the bell tolls
the end of a parting year
every one be in jocund
with different crackers
swain lasses exchange gifts
people strolling the street in twos
all in mirth to mark a new year
porch blinking the fireworks
displaying...
The tamer and the birds (for Kate)
(Poetry)
11-06-2007
by Amodu O. Razaq
The birds earnestly they await
The tamer to come
And the tamer away in state
And does not prepare to go to farm
Quickly some birds they move
Away to the shrine and appease
After a long wait and rove
And their growth does not cease...
Time
(Poetry)
27-01-2009
by Amodu O. Razaq
Mourning go away with time.
In the ever flowing stream of yesterday,
the night came.
Hurrying in the noon's chariot,
and at the double clicking of the dial.
I was old; and grey.
To the fair African lady
(Poetry)
25-08-2007
by Amodu O. Razaq
Let me sing your praise
Like a ballad singer solely
To the tune of sekere
Let me once again see
That warm cheering smile
That you possess
Pretty is low word for your beauty
And yet lowliness is your pride
Singing sonorously like a...
Tribute
(Poetry)
25-08-2007
by Amodu O. Razaq
This unwilling song
Oozing out of me so high
I wish not to sing
But my heart aches
Aching for the soul gone
That lie solely
In the earthly bed
Where there is peace
Tribute to you all
That lie in the earthly bed
Where there is...
Violence
(Poetry)
11-06-2007
by Amodu O. Razaq
My brother,
Why look you so sad
And moody? you look pale
And heartily laden
I am neither happy
Nor moody,
But looking at this people
Of hope, who were forced
To sleep afore the sunset
Make me so sad and moody
I, also this i...
What will be wlll be
(Poetry)
25-08-2007
by Amodu O. Razaq
Let all the friends turn foe
Away and let them all go
Yesterday, as the time went away
Turn to them all and say
What will be will be
Tell the parrot to do it like a dove
And tell the dove to envy not its beauty
But tell them to run away...
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