John Chizoba Vincent Poems

You trace my root from Nkporo
Down in Isieke compound, in the family of john Ogbu Agwo.
there i was born and nurtured to be a man.
My love, this is way to Nkporo.
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Don't bite the hand that feeds you
Don't burn your bridge behind you
Don't cast your pearls before swine
Don't change horses in midstream
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O wind thou art mighty
Mightier than the mightiest
Invisible as death
You gives human life and plant are not forsaken
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Look at the spot where the bruises
Had eaten deep into her body
Pains were kissed out in mockery.
Watch her mouth and listen to
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mother earth,
When would you stop feasting on our bodies
Stop your children and relatives
From killing our children and relations.
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I am with my mother
Down the alley in the kitchen
I am loosing her beads and hair
She told me of the BIafran war
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When a man cry
The walls has broken
Spirit had left the body of his brother
Then headed down the street of nothingness
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In Nkporoland, filled with milk and honey
We read the hand written on the wall under
The milky moon with our stomach painted with the earth
When we ate those roasted black yam with red oil,
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Adieu Michel, adieu the great gem

An icon bore when the wind stood still
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why cry thou of corrupt leaders?
why wailed of bribery and corruption?
which had feasted deep into the system
we all are victims of circumstances
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