Poems by An African Poet(Chief Charles O. Okereke)

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Poetry
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*Listen to 'African Anthem'

Umpires lose control;
A head runs amok;
Challenge to game rules;
Foul, umpires whistle.

Penalty awarded, refuted;
New power emerges;
Tussle for the imperialist lion;
Nuclear cyclone molds winds of war.

Alliances, propaganda, trade tackles;
Heavenly spies fill the skies;
Heat descend, flares tempers;
Embassy castrations the norm.

Drums of war and conquest;
Winds stronger, temperature of stroke;
Powers lock horn, earth jitters;
Only heavens know the Armageddon

Chief Charles O. Okereke

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World of Peace
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Milk and honey, bread and butter,
Jingles of peace and tranquility;
Dominance, oppression, drums of war;
Threads between joy and grief,
In a world of strife and struggles.

Energies abound in mankind;
Fine lines between good and evil;
God's love and barbarism,
Of His image and predation;
Two way or selfish one lane road.

Blood shed, of the beast;
War drums, echoes of the wild;
Respect, love, cushions of peace;
Peace only silencer of nuclear doom;
Doom yes, nuke threat abound, alarming.

People envy, nations pride;
Race, nationality, of superiority to the sick;
Gun powder, nuke bomb, for control;
Doom seeds, no other, naked truth;
Love and prosperity, reign of world peace.

Chief Charles O. Okereke

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Milwaukee
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Mill walk the journey to fun and more;
Great city flowing with best brews;
Miller brews among others with exotic tastes;
Mill walk it, the Milwaukee tour, city of attractions.

Mill walk to home of Harley Davidson,
City of climax of two-wheel technology;
Founding landmark of the great Harley riders;
Ride Home of Harley riders' festivities.

Mill walk to fun with finest dishes,
At the city of festivals, finest restaurants;
Lake front the great lakes in Milwaukee;
Mill walk it for everlasting experience.

Chief Charles O. Okereke

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Child Soldiers
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Heavens cry, mothers bemoan;
Father, son, trade metals;
Sides slug out, children entangled;
Young minds dance the limbo.

Munition, wars, as toy games;
Battle field as play grounds;
Bullets blow the whistle;
Trenches shield blind shots.

Murder tutorials, the course;
Predation, vandalism, honors;
Grades in white stripes;
Nation wastes her rising suns.

Chief Charles O. Okereke

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Endless Love
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Divine unending love;
Heaven high, earthly wide;
On a 'plus' reinforced;
Through betrayal, agony and death.

Life hacked away, spirit stronger;
Death glorified from resurrection;
Earthly freedom from anger above;
Redemption for all that dwell.

Endless love, ever unfolding;
Wondrous, bountiful, everlasting,
In loops of love and peace chain;
Earth's engine in watts of mega-love.

Chief Charles O. Okereke

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Knowing Him Now
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Years of opportunity;
Decades unfolding;
Disciples up the task;
No fees to believe in Him.

First day in His glory;
Faithfuls stand on Knees;
Gates unguarded, unfettered;
No fees to join flock.

We march six feet down ;
Now or never alive,
Answer salvation call;
Not in casket by altar.

Chief Charles O. Okereke

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War Tears
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Mad men's game;
Madness, lawlessness;
All about power and greed;
Blood, mayhem, the price.

Wars, gruesome tales;
People rights in limbo;
Rape and torture, the norm;
Grief, pain, descend.

War cries, war tears;
Human lives as sticks;
Genocide, rebels, sides claim;
Heaven the truth knows.

Oppressors may vanguish;
Almighty to review;
Earthly win, heavenly loss;
God to console.

Chief Charles O. Okereke

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African Diaspora
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In the diaspora he sat down;
And there he wept;
Remembering Africa;
Mouth open, unable to a song.

Eyes full of the ocean;
Mouth imploded with praises;
Thought stacked full of memories,
Memories of Motherland Africa.

In bits he uttered;
Africa, my cherised home;
In the diaspora unable to a song;
I want to come to there.

Chief Charles O. Okereke

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War Worries
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Earth engulfed, coast to coast;
Heat on, within - across;
Hopelessness and desperation;
Earth boils, shakes.

Leaders warn, same accused;
Armories swell, prayers bemoan;
Temperature in heights;
Earth rattles, jitters.

Pendulum dances a ballad;
Conspirators spice rhythm;
Threats consummate alliances;
Worries, threat of war.

Uncertainty molds the days;
Propaganda taint the press;
Minds roam in stress;
Earth worry and ponder.

Chief Charles O. Okereke

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Liberia
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Land of freedom;
Land of the setting sun;
In Americas you rose;
Freedom in sought.

Land of great heros;
Land of revolutionaries;
Liberia or liberty;
Sierra Leon bemoaned.

Beautiful seashore home;
Pride of Africa;
Symbol of blackness;
Great black icon.

Thou shall rise again;
African Union enshrined;
Thy labor to bear fruit;
Bounty, peace, freedom.

Chief Charles O. Okereke

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Oiled To Foolishness
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Drinks and broke;
Gambles away, violent home;
Home abused, neglected;
Comparable analog.

All over the world;
Worst in Africa;
Oil boom, human nightmare;
Nation suffocates;

Sold in barrels;
Accounted in margins;
Pockets full, treasury dry;
Loot 'Swissed';

Ethnic bickering;
Resource control fumes;
Gun barrels hold unity;
Nation in coma;

Gravely deep sleep;
Angels hover above,
For nation's requiem mass;
Oiled to foolishness?

Chief Charles O. Okereke

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Madness & Vultures' Feast
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In Europe it started big and massive;
Great wars, great loses, great feasts, 3Gs;
Human madness, mankind's zealousness;
We killed, we maimed, we polluted;
The air stenched, vultures rejoiced our madness.

Munition sounds, heavenly jet bombardments;
Destructions on earth, lives hacked away;
We fool, vultures feast and bury loved ones;
The air smell, bones criss-cross the land;
Warriors and people perish, senseless wars.

Whole wide earth besieged with 3Gs;
Wars, loses, senseless feasts, feasts on lives;
Asia arms, Mid E. rocks, Africa fight, Europe alert;
Vultures bury, grow on flesh, exhume as feces;
Bones criss-cross the land, pathetic signs of R.I.P.

Chief Charles O. Okereke

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Black & White
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Countless human colors;
Within, across, races;
God's earthly flower garden;
Blessing to mankind.

Africa mother stock;
Home of germination;
Divine manifestation,
Until whole earth bedded.

Beauty more than a trait;
Diversity most beautiful;
Monocolor too boring;
Races beauty of earth.

Races like rainbow;
Earth horizon beautified,
To His glory above;
All that dwell rejoice.

Chief Charles O. Okereke

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Longevity
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Chemical war heads on shelves;
Preservatives the reactors;
Dine food that spoil;
Bunker life with nature grown;
Living to the maximum.

Bite as can cushion;
Munch within the room;
Tame the stress builders;
Flower the dreams;
Longevity the salary.

One day at a time;
A card before another;
Smiles and happiness;
Years to the number.

The grave years afar;
The bones miles support;
Great and Grand the titles;
Near century not decades.

Chief Charles O. Okereke

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Dungeon Cells
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In Africa, everywhere;
Third world they thrive;
Change first claim;
Reach out as saviors.

Trade on votes;
Shoot down power at times;
Plunder whole nation;
Bank away in West;

Army bully to fear;
Murder, blackmail, opposition;
Rape to satisfy lust;
Quench throat with alcohol.

No looking East;
Home destitute, in disrepair;
West thrives with loot;
Rise up, oh! Africa.

Chief Charles O. Okereke

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