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Poems For Review / "Vision 2020" by Banjam32(m): 8:06pm On Jul 11, 2020 |
, The year we all envisaged The pinnacle of visionary promises The glib tongues of our official authorities The season of actualizations , It came It is going Those brimful dreams, fantasies and promises Man meaningless to time , In 1993, we heard it It will be the year of blueprints Education for all Schemes for paradisiacal dreams , In 1999, we heard it Even after the democratic misadventure To the trumpeting of the seven agendas , In 2007, we heard it Truncated by the poison of Aso We rode on the goodwill of fate Believing these official proclamations Will serve as soothing prescriptions , Now the ashes of hopes are burnt Like worn out dreams soaked In tattered dreams of mad men Waiting for when they will be given senses , Vision 2020 Was promised Hungers will be eradicated Plates will be filled Electricity will be constant Education will be free A listless list of promises Failed promises Ala sacrificed promises , Alas, vision 2020 Still came to fruition It came In plagues crushing not just a nation But, the universe , © k~net |
Poems For Review / "Alien Gods" by Banjam32(m): 7:59pm On Jul 11, 2020 |
' My fathers offered The blood of hens, I have differed Offering bloods in pens. My forebears sweated On farmland. I have sweated My days in faraway land. I am a marauder With no strength nor guts, Like a forsaken honourer Of alien gods! , © knet # lost 7:15pm 11 Jun 2020 |
Poems For Review / "DEATH BEFORE DYING" (last Suicide Note) by Banjam32(m): 10:51pm On Apr 26, 2020 |
' Never think cemeteries are lonely, It is full of bones and story. Never you wish death before dying, You could die and they act crying. ' © k-net # darken_lines 28/1/2020 |
Poems For Review / Re: Reaper by Banjam32(m): 10:49pm On Apr 26, 2020 |
Aiyamrex: Dark and picturesque. You write well. 1 Like |
Poems For Review / "Pendemic" by Banjam32(m): 10:44pm On Apr 26, 2020 |
, If the pen is stronger than the sword, It's words could be strongest amidst endemics, Diseases can ravage our lives, Never our souls nor what we write. , I thought of the might of the pen, It could have the duty to end, How many generations before its metaphorical might, Is not something that writers lose sight? What do we fear that has never been written? , © k~net Maiduguri 26/4/2020 1 Like |
Poems For Review / "...and There Will Tears Flood (The Lockdown)" by Banjam32(m): 12:19am On Apr 21, 2020 |
The days are now hectic The streets cries in anger Gone are those smiling in sceptic Sharks are in hunger With the boat now sinking Peters with no chance to struggle No more sweating nor drinking The streets are now a jungle Infested with khakis ready Like Talibans baying for blood In cynical attention for the unsteady And there will tears flood , © k~net 21/4/2020 2 Likes |
Poems For Review / Re: Asylum Of Souls by Banjam32(m): 10:43pm On Apr 17, 2020 |
Aiyamrex: deep 1 Like |
Poems For Review / Re: No Soul Should Remain The Same (A Deluxe Sonnet) by Banjam32(m): 12:33am On Apr 14, 2020 |
Deluxe sonnet, sincerely I am hearing that for the first time. Still, a poem painting the vanity called life. |
Poems For Review / Re: Dead End by Banjam32(m): 12:26am On Apr 14, 2020 |
Free verse... " was in delima ,men learnt that The devil also bleed in battles". A little help here, felt lost at what was meant here, explain bard. |
Poems For Review / "Be Mine" by Banjam32(m): 12:14am On Apr 14, 2020 |
BE MINE(Duet) CHARLOTTE: Let your lips melt down my throat; With each kiss, Let me take in a portion of you. KNET: Let this meltdown of lips Redefine the dying of passion, As each kiss unsheathes All portion of doubt. CHARLOTTE: Let me take in every inch of you, Calmly encircling you; Knowing you; Possessing you. KNET: I am held spellbound in you, As the calmed encirclement, Takes ahold of me. CHARLOTTE: Allow my hands to wander along the contours of your unclad body resting in the right places. KNET: Your hands are lord over my body, even the contours are Seemingly restless in the right places. CHARLOTTE: Whisper in my ears with your untamed voice; Tell me how you like it; Keep me hooked. KNET: A possessed passion is eloquent in silence. The voice speaks only when Untamed. CHARLOTTE: Grab me fully in your arms; Don't leave an inch of me; Kiss me everywhere; Don't set me free. KNET: You're in a mutual dungeon, Setting free is not an option, As my kisses wears everywhere, And am just getting started. CHARLOTTE: Make me feeble; KNET: As I be the feed! CHARLOTTE: Make me loyal; KNET: As I be the subject! CHARLOTTE: Make me yours tonight. KNET: As we become one tonight. © CHARLOTTE AND KNET, http://charlotteakello. |
Poems For Review / Re: The 'if' In 'ifeanyi' by Banjam32(m): 12:02am On Apr 14, 2020 |
My middle name is 'Ifeanyi" |
Poems For Review / The 'if' In 'ifeanyi' by Banjam32(m): 11:59pm On Apr 13, 2020 |
When the winds of horrors blew, I was never drag with it Even though my identity flew To destinations of dark quagmire. * I was baptized in Scottish knighthood, With a name that made my forebears grin, But who cares for transcultural sainthood When the departed elders are left in green? * If I could do away with "If", What will "anyi" say to me... A backstabber of his race And a follower of the thief, By rejecting a reflection of me For those alien face(s). * Mother, saw a portion of home When she left me indigenously tattooed, But civilizations is everyman's home, Letting me off to be identity tabooed. * Now, I bear multiple disorders, Looking like a wretch Chasing harmless borders, Soaked up in tireless drench. * It's been decades of wandering... Eternity of wondering... When and if "Ifeanyi" Will be allow to speak orderly For himself. . k~net™ # ghost_of_reflection # lost Maiduguri, Nigeria 10/12/2016 |
Romance / Re: I Lost my job, my girlfriend dumped me and nairalanders saved me from suicide by Banjam32(m): 12:14am On Apr 10, 2020 |
YungMillionaire: I talk about it, write about it usually in my poems now. The truth is church and counselling did not work, but I tried overcoming mine by talking and keeping myself busy. 1 Like 1 Share |
Poems For Review / "Home Of The Brave"( For The People Of Borno) by Banjam32(m): 11:52pm On Apr 09, 2020 |
, In the home of the brave Lies those that were save In this tide of wave, They seek not the grave But what they gave Was the bereave To live on. ' In home of the brave Plies those that were enslave In this side of an enclave, They seek not the cave But what they crave Was the deprave To give up. ' Knet December 30, 2014 at 1:39 AM · Maiduguri, Nigeria 1 Like |
Poems For Review / "Where Do We Stand" by Banjam32(m): 11:45pm On Apr 09, 2020 |
Where do we stand To escape the face Of faceless throngs Who commit murder In the name of religion ~ Where do we stand As brutes in red and black scarfs Scavenge the routes Through which peace Once plied ~ Where do we stand To delay the music Coming out from the flute of fire Smashing brains Belonging to fathers and would be fathers ~ Where do we stand As miserly ghost walkers Slowly exhume the living From the grip of mortals All the way to abyss ~ Where do we stand To watch the unfolded spectacle Of the hangman's mayhem Unleashing pain in a town Once oblivious to horse's whip ~ © k~net ghosts_of_reflection Maiduguri April,2017 2 Likes |
Poems For Review / Re: Last Man by Banjam32(m): 11:38pm On Apr 09, 2020 |
Well, OK... |
Romance / Re: I Lost my job, my girlfriend dumped me and nairalanders saved me from suicide by Banjam32(m): 11:32pm On Apr 09, 2020 |
It's good when I see people talk about suicide, I have been there, in fact I tried it a second time this year, that resulted in me been admitted in a Teaching hospital. That was when my ex-coursemates and a few relatives really took notice. Depression is a sickness often neglected in our society because of the misconstrue ideology that it is a white man's illness. Your story is quite touching and inspiring. I wished I could have the strength to share mine, unlike yours mine was just simply trying to escape something. Thanks for sharing. 2 Likes |
Poems For Review / I Don't Want To Die A Coward by Banjam32(m): 5:15pm On Apr 09, 2020 |
And the fear catches me every time, My heart remembers the coward I became, One which could not save the misgivings Of a dying friend shot for his act of valor . Folded hands angle on my chest, Knees glided in a sort of knitted threads, Of a late night wanderer out on a vigil-like quest, Where gathering guilts dawns as he dreads Could I have seek for open admittance from a priest? . But what use is begging the wrong side for forgiveness? Unless if phantoms of man heed the call of remission, Understood only by him who finds contentment In being unbound of memories past . I see my soul now consumed In the flames of Hellfire! In my final strength and emotion, Down on my knees, I say one last act of valor: Father in Heaven, I don't want to die a coward. . . AMEN © k~net #ghosts_of_reflection Maiduguri 11/4/2015 3 Likes 1 Share |
Poems For Review / Re: Last Man by Banjam32(m): 5:02pm On Apr 09, 2020 |
Firstly, I am no sir and secondly, I believe poems should be an imitation of life like literature in words, so it's more reality than game. Finally, as a critique to your poem, it starts with a rhetorical question of something horrific but what's it? The subsequent line answers it(its death or dying, hence I labelled it a dark poem). Which would be confirmed with the word "dark room" in the next line and now back to my saying its starts from nowhere and ends same: the last man...knock at the door, all shows either the poem is cryptic or part of a story yet to be told. Or maybe it is me knocking(wanting) more from the poem. |
Poems For Review / Re: My Fears by Banjam32(m): 10:17am On Apr 09, 2020 |
A ballad! |
Poems For Review / Re: Before I Give Up On Life. by Banjam32(m): 10:15am On Apr 09, 2020 |
"... must have written poems that garnered little or no interest" This line struck, do not give up. Your words will never give up on you with or without interest(s). 1 Like |
Poems For Review / Re: Last Man by Banjam32(m): 10:10am On Apr 09, 2020 |
A dark poem. This feel has though it starts from nowhere and ends same way. And so; "...there was a knock at the door". |
Poems For Review / Re: "Beauty Lies" by Banjam32(m): 10:01am On Apr 09, 2020 |
At least, this poem got me somewhere years back in a poetry competition. Someone should critique it for me, please. |
Poems For Review / "Beauty Lies" by Banjam32(m): 9:57am On Apr 09, 2020 |
' Is beauty in the eyes of the holder When one does not own beauty, In a world of adulterated gorgeousness Created by mocked grimace of make up. ' Beauty is no longer attainable For it is now a creation, A creation in the citadel of cosmetics And dehumanization of human wastes. ' Beauty is a farce forced to live in dreams. As anyone can be a dreamer Cursed by change Hidden by lies. ' Beauty is dead. For only its ghost patrols the street. ' If you look at the mamas passed And look at the Cinderellas passing, You will see beauty lies. ' Beauty died burning before it worn out, As even wrinkles no longer feel natural. ' Years and age of fake beautiful lies Pictures, a toy in China shop Beauty now cries out for sale In a market of dolls! ' @ K-net # ghosts_of_reflection Maiduguri May 21, 2016 3 Likes
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Poems For Review / MAIDUGURI II (war-torn Riches) by Banjam32(m): 9:48am On Apr 09, 2020 |
The war-torn riches of some sands in maid* Abandoned by the roadside, stoned and castaway; An insurgent haven, demons on a holiday, Its sandy eggs broken, useful and have no need;- Innocent mirrors are made to bleed, Nay, I have often stood still in mute dismay, As one's hard life suffers ruins, to this day, Mother earth is shock on this deed? What cruel children, bearing the shame-scorn: What tears despised and modesty defaced By ruthless children of waste: From matrons to the nation, we bear shame-torn To die at leisure having loved without taste; And beauty bleeding not to be born. , *Maiduguri © k~net™ ghosts_of_reflection Maiduguri, Nigeria 10/1/2017 2:00am |
Literature/Writing Ads / Re: Poem On Heartbreak by Banjam32(m): 1:40am On Apr 08, 2020 |
[quote author=Bossbaby0002 post=88207296] not so good, just an amateur on poems, but you can message me 07080546989[/quote There's no pro nor amateur to poetry. After all, it simply is an expression of life in a condensed and elevated language. I will message u. Hope u're on whatsapp? |
Poems For Review / Re: Mask by Banjam32(m): 1:36am On Apr 08, 2020 |
Aiyamrex:It was just an alliterative compliment of your poem. |
Poems For Review / MAIDUGURI III( Eyes Of A Terrorist-love) by Banjam32(m): 1:15am On Apr 08, 2020 |
Maiduguri, the treaded thorny path of pain As faceless faces hardened by oasis fears; Waiting to shed wells of endless tears Soaked warm in a northern clime searching for peace in vain; What cause the hobby of hunger, and stain - Not naked but defaced among peers, Those scars it seem marked only your face it appears Arewa's troubled mirror the only tag you gain; Hay, home of peace,a ruse, nay, pieces, this a disgrace, You walk in dreams with your manhood in scar, Through clouds that shine and open out above; And the flames of hoodlums threatening your face, And all the past lies and bombs not far Especially from the eyes of terrorist-love. © k~net™ # ghosts_of_reflection Maiduguri, Nigeria 15/1/2017 O3:00 |
Poems For Review / Re: Mask by Banjam32(m): 12:23am On Apr 08, 2020 |
Pin-point-poetical ! |
Literature / Re: Start Voting For 'Nairaland Top Writers' For 2020 ***CLOSED*** by Banjam32(m): 11:52pm On Apr 07, 2020 |
Divepen1: There should be categories for dark poems and maybe dramatic poems. As I have seen a few poems that fall under these classifications and not under the aforementioned categories. |
Literature/Writing Ads / Re: Poem On Heartbreak by Banjam32(m): 11:39pm On Apr 07, 2020 |
Emotional piece, will do better with more imagery in order to paint the heartfelt pain. Lastly, the last line should have the auxiliary verb "is" before the rhetoric. N/b: I have a poem titled; "sheartbreaker" and I want to do something like a sequel to it but a duet. Can you collaborate with me. knet |
Literature/Writing Ads / Re: Research Paper Writer's Needed by Banjam32(m): 11:32pm On Apr 07, 2020 |
I have a seven years experience in research writing. I am a capable ghost writer at best, possibly with over 150 works to date. My email is: kennethegwu87@gmail.com. |
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