NGOZI OLIVIA OSUOHA - POEMS

NGOZI OLIVIA OSUOHA is a Nigerian poet/writer/thinker. A graduate of Estate Management with experience in Banking and Broadcasting. She has published over one hundred poems/articles in over ten countries. Her first two longest poems of 355 and 560 verses titled THE TRANSFORMATION TRAIN and LETTER TO MY UNBORN published in Kenya and Canada respectively are available on Amazon. She has also featured in over ten international anthologies/books/blogs. She is a passionate African ink.

​POLITICS

​A masquerade of ugly traits
Chasing citizens of ordinary values,
A parade of dirty linens
Messing up the environment,
Heaps of confusion
Troubling the land.

Politics, the pillar of karma
Canonizing, canalizing, cabalistic too
Beams of fetish columns
Streams of radiation
Rays of fraudulent hopes.

Politics, dirty, stinking, inhumane
Bearing stamps of hardship
Bits and bits of flesh
Pounding bones and skulls,
Severing skeletons and frames.

Politics of jungles
Lions roaring and devouring
Careless, carefree, mean, heartless, wicked
Shameless, mannerless, cultureless
Greed, selfishness, pride, hate, bigotry
Lust, lies, dishonesty, distrust, ungodliness.

Charades of barbarism
Champions of war,
Insights and instigations of hate
Waywardness and total crackdown
Complete control, complexity
Power tussle, puzzle of mystery.

RELIGION

​Wondrous game of high magnitude
Amazing draft of concrete confusion
Bewilderment of wonderment,
Overhauling the human race.

See, religion is speeding
On a flight of light
Advancing in amazement
Chasing humanity far away.

Religion, religiosity
Bondage of unfathomable force
Grip of incomprehensible might
Tunnel of abysmal depth.

Blind, blinded, blindfold, blindfolded
Dark light of darkness
Thick clouds of poisonous smoke,
Choking the world.

WAR

​Business of few
Gain of a handful
Maze of complicated plan,
Trade by barter.

Weapons and ammunitions
Experiments and launchings
Technical lies and diplomatic deceits
Political competitions and religious manoeuvres.

Wars, warring women and children
Wars, killing soldiers
Wars, destroying nations
Wars, wiping generations
Wars, feeding the rich.

The subterfuge, the camouflage, the sabotage
Green snake on a green grass
Red carpets, green chambers, white houses
Pinnacles and miracles,
Diamond heads, golden chests, silver knights
Gems of rareness, fleets of blue blood
Diminishing the unborn.

Global warming
 Climate change
Wearing out men,
Changing women
Bruising children
Burning mankind.

​COVID 19
(Happy World Day Of Poetry)

Tell every kid
There's something to rid
It is vivid
Though not lucid,
As we beseech God to forbid.

Even king David
And all he did
The ones he hid,
Are in the mid
So be not stupid.

The corona
That came from China,
Spreading from Asia
Hitting America
Going Australia
Entering Africa
Affecting Martina
And Fatima,
Touching Europe.

This virus
Is very dangerous
And more than cancerous,
No matter your locus
And your focus,
It can affect your status
So be neither porous
Nor poisonous.

This mighty scourge
Gives no one courage,
Rather the epidemic
Is turning pandemic,
Stay home
Even in Rome,
Deaths, priests
No more feasts.

Wash your hands
Safeguard your lands,
No more Valentine
Rather, quarantine.

Schools shutting down
Public places, drown
Shortages, scarcities
Fears, gears
Panics instead of picnics.

Dedicated to Covid 19 victims, patients, and all the health workers around the world.

LIGHT

​Dear light
Please come, we need you
Light of peace
Peaceful light,
We want you now.

Kindness, purity
Descend on us
Sacredness, light of love
Come, dwell among us.

Unity, oneness
Never depart
Live amidst the land
Let the world be totally free.

Land of our fathers
Grant us justice, peace and love
Let the earth hearken to God,
Now and forever.