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Kufre Udeme
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Sweating drummers
Growing so wild
Anxious crowds
Expanding like ringworm
Hefty hefty
Like a bunch of palm fruits
Huge shoulders
Dancing into the sandy circle
Smoky cloud
Drifting across the dying sun
Human voices
Chanting their names
Tough palms
Clashing like swords
Heavy legs
Rooting like Mangrove
Trickery trickery
One plunged the other down
Roaring crowds
Lifting him shoulder high.
THE FORGOTTEN WARRIORS
(For Goodive Sidney Ntiri)
Sons and daughters of Ibom
Is the taste of this Canaan so sweet
That we cease to remember our bamboo fences?
The enemies were not so strong
Have you forgotten so soon
How they brought other hands
To assist in pushing us away
But their mercenaries were not so strong?
No, you must never forget
How we left Arochukwu
That peace should reign
But the enemies pushed further
Don't tell me you've forgotten
How our warriors stood behind
To shield our naked backs
Now, where are those fences?
Where are the Mba Agwu?
Sons and daughters of Ibom
Is the taste of this Canaan so sweet
That we cease to remember our bamboo fences?
THIS HOUSE
It maybe true
this house is flat on earth
but once it was the tallest of all
mansions eyes ever beheld
Fading are past and the future
but present is the master of preference
not at all must it own all emphasis
the triumph of most tomorrow
lies on yesterday
talk about it then
we must
this house shall rise again
as long as its legs and hands are intact
Don't look upon it without hope.
One more chance is
enough spark for the top
trust again in us
fragments will someday weigh
heavier than wholes
this house will stand again
new pillars are sprouting from the stump
Africa shall be great again
If the Creator will let be the world.
Kufre Udeme, Lagos, Nigeria, Africa