AGENDA POEMS

Interrupt This Program (liberty Lotus)

Of badly behaved humans and pallid dust-
Split screen shows tall buildings in New York
Make good targets for aeroplanes
And the Pentagon burns like any other place.
.....

S. K. Kelen

To Guido Cavalcanti

Guido, I wish that Lapo, you, and I
could board a vessel, by transporter beam,
that sailed by will alone, wherever seemed
desirable to go, beneath all skies.
.....

Dante Alighieri

Bomb

niverse Grandest of all snatched sky I cannot hate you
Do I hate the mischievous thunderbolt the jawbone of an ass
The bumpy club of One Million B.C. the mace the flail the axe
Catapult Da Vinci tomahawk Cochise flintlock Kidd dagger Rathbone
.....

Gregory Corso

Gregory Corso

Budger of history Brake of time You Bomb
Toy of universe Grandest of all snatched sky I cannot hate you
Do I hate the mischievous thunderbolt the jawbone of an ass
The bumpy club of One Million B.C. the mace the flail the axe
.....

Gregory Corso

Bear The Fear

I will shout aloud to the world
And bear the news to the few
The truth to all will be hurled
So by heart they know my hue
.....

Kehinde Bashir Akinola

Hope Against Hope

The structure was laid to burn anarchy,
Enshrined codes to give hope to the hopeless,
And give home to the homeless.

.....

Emmanuel Goto

Letter From My Heart

A little while ago
I read the letter of my heart
A proposal to my success
And agenda to my greatness
.....

Gabriel Oluwalana

Wisdom And Power

I need wisdom
Not power, and pray
God to give me knowledge
Not power for as Solomon
.....

Emmanuel Inya Otu-nwachi

Unwatered Roses

Even the greatest designer
Who remains a legend till date
Always will be,
Knows the vitality of our fate
.....

Symon Maguru

Hidden Agenda

Mariachis, almost a Spanish temperament within those stars,
- a screen peppered to black,
pebbles as pinholes bright in the night air.

.....

Paul Cameron Brown

Corona

As if the world is taking a break
From the plays that humans make
As something came without a name
Taking lives and lives to blame
.....

Lyna Salman

Love Encounter

Amorously I was touched
But I can't prove any fact
The sight of her presence caused my mind to depart
Though my physical being was intact
.....

Owura Aquasi Nkrumah

Demo Kratia

A philanthropist came with an agenda
'HOPE 93, farewell to poverty"
But he never knew,
It was a farewell to his life
.....

Ayoade Sulaimon Oriyomi

Alooter

Solidarity is forever
Solidarity is forever
Solidarity is forever
We shall always fight for our right
.....

Olorode Samuel

Rags And Riches

Nigeria!
Nation of rags and riches
An individual's wealth is greater
And far above the common wealth;
.....

Emmanuel Inya Otu-nwachi

Season Of Madness

The strong man always refuted
Romancing with his enemies
To avoid being axed for anti party activities
His mouth had ran like tap
.....

Emmanuel Inya Otu-nwachi

Song Of A Single Mother

.
Like the salt of the earth
That night defined us
It proclaimed us mother and father
.....

Bamukunda Hillary

When Calamity Rains

The cloud never holds the bolts of lightning against her subordinate,
Never inquire what's wrong with the Earth,
But when the storm comes and the lights go off ,
When the sun shines and dry the lands into desert,
.....

Gabriel T. Saah