Have You Seen Stars Poem by Obodokasi Ade'etem Agbor

Have you seen stars in autumn
Or moon at the spire of her glow?
If you have, i bet my smiles for frowns
You will pass them to kings as crowns.

Have you tread deep into obudu forests
Near the bounds that bred me long ago
Were lilies on vales and mounts grow,
If you have,
You will forsake the wonders of west.

In one of those festivals,
Were maidens dance bare breasted
In the scourge of the sun,
Listen to the Swahili rendition,
I say,
Even the birds dread a competition.

An African maid,
When she tend the sheep
Or lay the bed
And sent deep to sleep,
O' even Australian summer
Hath not nurtured such flower