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Re: Who Is Your Favorite Poet? by Gbadebo19(m): 9:05pm On Jun 12, 2022 |
Wooohooooo!!! I would go for "Kofi Awoonor" I love his "Songs of sorrow" best |
Re: Who Is Your Favorite Poet? by tillaman(m): 9:06pm On Jun 12, 2022 |
Allan Edgar Poe 2 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Who Is Your Favorite Poet? by BabaIbo: 9:09pm On Jun 12, 2022 |
I made buhari Eleyi, emi ni mo fise governor Emi lo kan Fulanis and Yorubas are one Where is Evan the kidnapper? These are the favorite quotes from a renowned poet. |
Re: Who Is Your Favorite Poet? by Richy4(m): 9:09pm On Jun 12, 2022 |
David Diop Africa my Africa Africa my Africa Africa of proud warriors in ancestral Savannahs Africa of whom my Grandmother sings On the bank of a distance river. I have never known you But your blood flows in my veins.. Na there I cramme reach those years .. How can I forget Songs of Sorrow... By Kofi Awoonor One of the best African master piece I have ever read.. How the man poured his heart effortlessly on that poem is what made me like him.. 4 Likes |
Re: Who Is Your Favorite Poet? by ictplotter(m): 9:09pm On Jun 12, 2022 |
Africa my Africa Africa of proud warriors in ancestral Savannahs Africa of whom my grandmother sings On the banks of the distant river I have never known you But your blood flows in my veins Your beautiful black blood that irrigates the fields The blood of your sweat The sweat of your work The work of your slavery Africa, tell me Africa Is this your back that is unbent This back that never breaks under the weight of humiliation This back trembling with red scars And saying no to the whip under the midday sun? But a grave voice answers me Impetuous child that tree, young and strong That tree over there Splendidly alone amidst white and faded flowers That is your Africa springing up anew springing up patiently, obstinately Whose fruit bit by bit acquires The bitter taste of liberty. By David Diop. 2 Likes |
Re: Who Is Your Favorite Poet? by Eyiwunmi33(m): 9:12pm On Jun 12, 2022 |
Realists:Umru Qais was an Arabian poet. I guess you translated this. |
Re: Who Is Your Favorite Poet? by Nobody: 9:13pm On Jun 12, 2022 |
Myopia by sly cheny coker[color=#006600][/color] |
Re: Who Is Your Favorite Poet? by Nobody: 9:13pm On Jun 12, 2022 |
Myopia by sly cheny coker |
Re: Who Is Your Favorite Poet? by IbileIfe: 9:16pm On Jun 12, 2022 |
Kahlil Gibran, author of The Prophet. 1 Like |
Re: Who Is Your Favorite Poet? by sweetonugbu: 9:20pm On Jun 12, 2022 |
Robert Frost. wild grape, the road not taken. |
Re: Who Is Your Favorite Poet? by higgs: 9:28pm On Jun 12, 2022 |
JP Clark,Kofi Awoonor. |
Re: Who Is Your Favorite Poet? by Akhee: 9:30pm On Jun 12, 2022 |
Now, I will sacrifice my life for you! You hear the secret verses and give them meaning too. We all see you take their names, Raiise the dead with those verses,make them new. Now, I will sacrifi ce my life for you! How did you learn the mysteries you knew? Risen from the grave, drunk on your beauty without a sip of sinful wine, askew. A glimpse of your nearness drove them all mad. Blessed are they! You shelter them near you. RUMI |
Re: Who Is Your Favorite Poet? by lugo99(m): 9:34pm On Jun 12, 2022 |
2 PAC and Lil Wayne |
Re: Who Is Your Favorite Poet? by Cypress042: 9:36pm On Jun 12, 2022 |
Cenripacta: |
Re: Who Is Your Favorite Poet? by flowithme(m): 9:40pm On Jun 12, 2022 |
Ezra Pound |
Re: Who Is Your Favorite Poet? by DanseMacabre(m): 9:41pm On Jun 12, 2022 |
FalseProphet1: Conceived |
Re: Who Is Your Favorite Poet? by Richy4(m): 9:43pm On Jun 12, 2022 |
Songs of Sorrow by Kofi Awoonor.. Dzogbese Lisa has treated me thus It has led me among the sharps of the forest Returning is not possible And going forward is a great difficulty The affairs of this world are like the chameleon feces Into which I have stepped When I clean it cannot go.1 I am on the world's extreme corner, I am not sitting in the row with the eminent But those who are lucky Sit in the middle and forget I am on the world's extreme corner I can only go beyond and forget. My people, I have been somewhere If I turn here, the rain beats me If I turn there the sun burns me The firewood of this world Is for only those who can take heart That is why not all can gather it. The world is not good for anybody But you are so happy with your fate; Alas! The travelers are back All covered with debt. II. Something has happened to me The things so great that I cannot weep; I have no sons to fire the gun when I die And no daughters to wail when I close my mouth I have wandered on the wilderness The great wilderness men call life The rain has beaten me, And the sharp stumps cut as keen as knives I shall go beyond and rest. I have no kin and no brother, Death has made war upon our house; And Kpeti's great household is no more, Only the broken fence stands; And those who dared not look in his face Have come out as men. How well their pride is with them. Let those gone before take note They have treated their offspring badly. What is the wailing for? Somebody is dead. Agosu himself Alas! A snake has bitten me My right arm is broken, And the tree on which I lean is fallen. Agosi if you go tell them, Tell Nyidevu, Kpeti, and Kove That they have done us evil; Tell them their house is falling And the trees in the fence Have been eaten by termites; That the martels curse them. Ask them why they idle there While we suffer, and eat sand. And the crow and the vulture Hover always above our broken fences And strangers walk over our portion. 2 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: Who Is Your Favorite Poet? by juman(m): 9:46pm On Jun 12, 2022 |
Sikiru ayinde barrywonder. 1 Like |
Re: Who Is Your Favorite Poet? by DanseMacabre(m): 9:47pm On Jun 12, 2022 |
Thomas Stearns Eliot. |
Re: Who Is Your Favorite Poet? by Nobody: 9:49pm On Jun 12, 2022 |
blazepascal:
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Re: Who Is Your Favorite Poet? by ayandee: 9:54pm On Jun 12, 2022 |
Christopher Okigbo |
Re: Who Is Your Favorite Poet? by protocol(m): 10:02pm On Jun 12, 2022 |
George Awoonor williams= songs of sorrow. Abiku by jp clark |
Re: Who Is Your Favorite Poet? by ayesco202(m): 10:03pm On Jun 12, 2022 |
Robert Frost - The Road Not Taken John Milton - On His Blindness Kofi Awoonor - Songs of Sorrow Kobena Eyi Acquah - In The Navel Of The Soul 1 Like |
Re: Who Is Your Favorite Poet? by SankaraSo: 10:04pm On Jun 12, 2022 |
Christopher Okigbo's - Heaven's Gate. Ezra Pound's - The days are not enough. 1 Like |
Re: Who Is Your Favorite Poet? by protocol(m): 10:06pm On Jun 12, 2022 |
ayandee: call of the river nun 1 Like |
Re: Who Is Your Favorite Poet? by Osariemen12: 10:09pm On Jun 12, 2022 |
ictplotter: You must have been to one English department in the varsity. |
Re: Who Is Your Favorite Poet? by OmovuduTheBeast(f): 10:10pm On Jun 12, 2022 |
John Donne - Death Be Not Proud |
Re: Who Is Your Favorite Poet? by ezewealth(m): 10:11pm On Jun 12, 2022 |
One should remind me the name the poem that speaks about sun disturbing the love making of two lovers And another peom "Yankee" |
Re: Who Is Your Favorite Poet? by Osariemen12: 10:12pm On Jun 12, 2022 |
Claude Mckay is my Favourite poet. If We Must Die has no rival in human letters. |
Re: Who Is Your Favorite Poet? by ayandee: 10:16pm On Jun 12, 2022 |
protocol:exactly |
Re: Who Is Your Favorite Poet? by xcuggsm(m): 10:21pm On Jun 12, 2022 |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mfus7QCeWU JOHN DONNE - "No one is an Island" No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as any manner of thy friends or of thine own were; any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind. And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.” |
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