Tosin Abegunde Poems

Tree of Memory

Endlessly it continues
Seed o' the war-thirst
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Water

I passionately fear you with awe
Even though I take you while raw.
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How Time Flies

94 years ago,
We gather to celebrate
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On this coal of fire I sit,
Patiently, like a hen on a line
Museling about this socio-malady
That makes a man bleats
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So Sorry A Sight.

As days dissolve into nights
And seasons chameleon to centuries,
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Under same battlement
Without retirement
With resentments
Sprayed on rents
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Kòkúmọ́

The truant of existence.
Severally registering appearance,
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When The Wine Got Exhausted

There, in the congregation, I sat
Thinking in snatches and so, lost
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Oh Nigeria,
My father land
So blessed a land
To the penury of her children.
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Syberitic Pearl

Dark, in my lowly solitude state,
I see in your world a tender arm,
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