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40 BLANK SKIES (Sestets by Nigerian Poets)

<body><div class&equals;"booster-block booster-read-block">&NewLine; <div class&equals;"twp-read-time">&NewLine; &Tab;<i class&equals;"booster-icon twp-clock"><&sol;i> <span>Read Time&colon;<&sol;span>9 Minute&comma; 0 Second <&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine; <&sol;div><p><em>only conscious eyes can probe the skies<&sol;em><br>&NewLine;<em>only spheres with balls dare it’s vastness<&sol;em><br>&NewLine;<em>a breathing body urges its eyes<&sol;em><br>&NewLine;<em>they look up in total blindness<&sol;em><br>&NewLine;<em>dead heart&comma; blank eyeballs<&sol;em><br>&NewLine;<em>wiping stubborn tear-falls<&sol;em><br>&NewLine;<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;facebook&period;com&sol;Brainypoet&quest;fref&equals;ufi" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">~ Kukogho Iruesiri Samson<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>1<&sol;strong><br>&NewLine;Shattered and broken above<br>&NewLine;devoid of clouds and birds<br>&NewLine;like a blank page it rest above<br>&NewLine;swinging down to earth<br>&NewLine;a blank sky is all i crave for to pen<br>&NewLine;down my old rugged thought<br>&NewLine;<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;facebook&period;com&sol;jacksinpee&quest;fref&equals;ufi" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank"><em>~ Paul Word<&sol;em><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>2<&sol;strong><br>&NewLine;I look at the sky as if it owes me some dough<br>&NewLine;Wondering of what it was made from<br>&NewLine;The whitish and bluish colors enticed me like a diamond<br>&NewLine;what hold the sky&quest;<br>&NewLine;It beyond anybody’s imagination<br>&NewLine;The sky is but a special endowment of life&period;<br>&NewLine;<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;facebook&period;com&sol;wahabjagun&quest;fref&equals;ufi" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank"><em>~ Jagun Abdulwahab<&sol;em><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>3<&sol;strong><br>&NewLine;When you look up to the sky<br>&NewLine;You see the flies that learn to fly<br>&NewLine;High above the roaring sea<br>&NewLine;There is nothing you can see<br>&NewLine;Then you saw a bird with tie<br>&NewLine;when you hear that the sky is blank<br>&NewLine;<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;facebook&period;com&sol;jacob&period;timothy&period;756&quest;fref&equals;ufi" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank"><em>~ Jacob Timothy<&sol;em><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>4<&sol;strong><br>&NewLine;What have we&quest;<br>&NewLine;But blank skies&comma;<br>&NewLine;When sources have been mistaken for resources&comma;<br>&NewLine;Leaving behind no future for the next generation&comma;&period;<br>&NewLine;Push-ups and belly-ups are for six packs&comma;<br>&NewLine;But a future can’t thrive on six pence&period;<br>&NewLine;<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;facebook&period;com&sol;obinna&period;jones2&quest;fref&equals;ufi" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank"><em>~ Obinna Omotayo Jones<&sol;em><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>5<br>&NewLine;My mind was full of debris&comma;<br>&NewLine;But&comma;<br>&NewLine;Now&comma;<br>&NewLine;As I look up&comma;<br>&NewLine;All I see<br>&NewLine;Are Blank Skies&period;<br>&NewLine;<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;facebook&period;com&sol;daniel&period;s&period;moskowitz&quest;fref&equals;ufi" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank"><em>~ Daniel S&period; Moskowitz<&sol;em><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>6<&sol;strong><br>&NewLine;In deep thought I stared the sky<br>&NewLine;Seeking solace in midst of life threatening ills<br>&NewLine;To escapes life intricacies<br>&NewLine;Quite unusual in this chilling night<br>&NewLine;The skies is blank<br>&NewLine;Leaving me standing alone<br>&NewLine;<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;facebook&period;com&sol;onwuegbu1&quest;fref&equals;ufi" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank"><em>~ Sunday O Freemason<&sol;em><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>7<&sol;strong><br>&NewLine;My Mum told me&comma; aim for the top&comma;<br>&NewLine;When to get going gets hard<br>&NewLine;Look up&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Now griefs around me is spreading<br>&NewLine;I looked up&comma; but all I could see is a blank sky<br>&NewLine;Its a desert&comma; no solution grow therein&period;<br>&NewLine;<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;facebook&period;com&sol;olayinka&period;s&period;aremu&quest;fref&equals;ufi" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank"><em>~ Olayinka Samson Aremu<&sol;em><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>8<&sol;strong><br>&NewLine;my sad heart weeps<br>&NewLine;deep inside i feel dead<br>&NewLine;debris of the past have eaten my head<br>&NewLine;vultures jubilate above my soul<br>&NewLine;my future has gone blank<br>&NewLine;shimmering of nothing like a blank sky&period;<br>&NewLine;<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;facebook&period;com&sol;oriogun&quest;fref&equals;ufi" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank"><em>~ Oluwasegun Romeo Oriogun<&sol;em><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>9<&sol;strong><br>&NewLine;Through the mind&comma; I rent in two the shrouds of the heavens&semi;<br>&NewLine;and doused the flames of the luminous heavenly bodies&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>And with curious eyes<br>&NewLine;I peered into the blank skies&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Lo&comma; God’s evanescent shadow—<br>&NewLine;Trailing endlessly in the vacant heavens—I saw&period;<br>&NewLine;<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;facebook&period;com&sol;kelechi&period;ansel&quest;fref&equals;ufi" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank"><em>~ Kelechi Oriaku Ansel<&sol;em><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>10<&sol;strong><br>&NewLine;When the air is serene and cool<br>&NewLine;When the clouds consummate love with the skies so blue<br>&NewLine;I look for the deep things of the world<br>&NewLine;But they seem so engrossed and refuse to talk<br>&NewLine;The navel of my soul wails for replies<br>&NewLine;But all I see is blank skies<br>&NewLine;<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;facebook&period;com&sol;Jennyswaggy&quest;fref&equals;ufi" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank"><em>~ Andrew Ifeatu Jennifer<&sol;em><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>11<&sol;strong><br>&NewLine;soar through the voids of dementia<br>&NewLine;voices muted in pain of broken bowels<br>&NewLine;thoughts crawl limbless in a force-field of inertia<br>&NewLine;the sun refuses to rise&comma;life throws in its dirty towel<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>a final cry of hopeless decay and nothingness<br>&NewLine;tomorrow’s bleak&comma;the clouds all black&comma;feel the darkness<br>&NewLine;<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;facebook&period;com&sol;alyazid&period;alexandaTHE&period;BLACK&period;INK&quest;fref&equals;ufi" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank"><em>~ Alexander Osinachi Al-yazid<&sol;em><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>12<&sol;strong><br>&NewLine;Shades of the starless skies<br>&NewLine;Fell flappily on floating flames<br>&NewLine;Calling the unseen moon to proceedings<br>&NewLine;for the absence from the call of nature<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>black deed lingers<br>&NewLine;underneath the void skies<br>&NewLine;<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;facebook&period;com&sol;tquality&quest;fref&equals;ufi" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank"><em>~ Adedayo Adeyemi Agarau<&sol;em><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>13<&sol;strong><br>&NewLine;Early I rise to pray<br>&NewLine;With a heart so filled with desires<br>&NewLine;I ask more of gain and less of pain<br>&NewLine;Wishing that I could dine in the realms of Angels<br>&NewLine;Filled with lots of merry and less of worry<br>&NewLine;But all I can but see is BLANK SKIES…&period;&period;<br>&NewLine;<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;facebook&period;com&sol;Hahbysawlah&quest;fref&equals;ufi" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank"><em>~ Ogunmilade Abisinuola Jewel<&sol;em><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>14<&sol;strong><br>&NewLine;The clouds have refused to grace your home<br>&NewLine;Abandoned like an orphan&comma; the rains have deserted<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Seek you not a friend&quest;<br>&NewLine;Do engage with the sun and laugh with the moon on end&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Silent sorrowful seer<br>&NewLine;Dont stay void nor empty&period;<br>&NewLine;<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;facebook&period;com&sol;shade&period;olaoye&period;39&quest;fref&equals;ufi" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank"><em>~ Shade Mary-Ann Olaoye<&sol;em><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>15<&sol;strong><br>&NewLine;In the cool of the evening&comma;<br>&NewLine;enjoying the sound of the breeze&comma;<br>&NewLine;And as the chirping cease&comma;<br>&NewLine;This chance I sieze&comma;<br>&NewLine;To get an answer&comma;<br>&NewLine;From the the beach blue blank skies&period;<br>&NewLine;<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;facebook&period;com&sol;michaelinioluwa&period;oladele&quest;fref&equals;ufi" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank"><em>~ Michael Inioluwa Oladele<&sol;em><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>16<&sol;strong><br>&NewLine;Sitting on the shoulders of life<br>&NewLine;I gazed at nature’s handsome gifts<br>&NewLine;But the sky seem dim white<br>&NewLine;Thrown down with with blank wishes<br>&NewLine;And as i walked into the dark night<br>&NewLine;I saw the sky with an empty body<br>&NewLine;<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;facebook&period;com&sol;tosin&period;samuel&period;562&quest;fref&equals;ufi" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank"><em>~ Isola Tosin Samuel-Doves<&sol;em><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>17<&sol;strong><br>&NewLine;My mind is lost of it miqht<br>&NewLine;My Mind is lost of his miqht<br>&NewLine;My life is lost of it’s lightI seem to be alone<br>&NewLine;As haggard and lazy i roam<br>&NewLine;It’s death face in my eyes<br>&NewLine;As it glances at the blank skies<br>&NewLine;<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;facebook&period;com&sol;adewusi&period;gbollex&quest;fref&equals;ufi" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank"><em>~ Adewusi David Rapkhid<&sol;em><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>18<br>&NewLine;Those tears aren’t warm you know&comma;<br>&NewLine;they’re from the sickle cold glands&comma;<br>&NewLine;asking nature for their share of fun&comma;<br>&NewLine;in a lonely world without some pun&comma;<br>&NewLine;they wake to a noon without the sun&comma;<br>&NewLine;what else&comma; if not blank skies&period;<br>&NewLine;<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;facebook&period;com&sol;Joseph&period;eu&quest;fref&equals;ufi" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank"><em>~ Joseph C&period; Ugwuanyi<&sol;em><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>19<&sol;strong><br>&NewLine;Unpredictable clouds creating confusion<br>&NewLine;Sowing something sinister amongst the nation<br>&NewLine;Fear turned us into blinds<br>&NewLine;As paralysis dwelt on our unclad minds<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>So where’s immunity&quest; For hope sits on patience<br>&NewLine;And our hearts move with prudence<br>&NewLine;<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;facebook&period;com&sol;jeremiah&period;peters&period;14&quest;fref&equals;ufi" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank"><em>~ Jeremiah Peters<&sol;em><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>20<&sol;strong><br>&NewLine;With a broken heart&comma;I behold the sky<br>&NewLine;With an open belly&comma; I expected it victuals<br>&NewLine;But this time wasn’t as usual<br>&NewLine;Eerie of silence envelops d earth<br>&NewLine;Birds no longer sing<br>&NewLine;The sun refused to brighten the terrain<br>&NewLine;<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;facebook&period;com&sol;etienyin&period;amos&quest;fref&equals;ufi" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank"><em>~ Goodname Amos<&sol;em><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>21<&sol;strong><br>&NewLine;No stars nor moon to show their lots<br>&NewLine;The dark patches have blotted them out<br>&NewLine;The sun has lost its usual ray<br>&NewLine;The rain signs shrouded the day<br>&NewLine;The gliding birds&comma; all to the river bank<br>&NewLine;And nature itself&comma; made the sky blank<br>&NewLine;<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;facebook&period;com&sol;emmajes&quest;fref&equals;ufi" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank"><em>~ Anthony Ogidi<&sol;em><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>22<&sol;strong><br>&NewLine;May you envy me as much<br>&NewLine;As i envy the birds<br>&NewLine;joy knows no bound<br>&NewLine;As they fly through the sky<br>&NewLine;May i not know the misery<br>&NewLine;Of the blank skies<br>&NewLine;<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;facebook&period;com&sol;poeticalesh&quest;fref&equals;ufi" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank"><em>~ Faruq Ashley Aleshinloye<&sol;em><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>23<&sol;strong><br>&NewLine;There once lived a lad in my hood<br>&NewLine;Life has deprived from all that’s good<br>&NewLine;Who spends all his day in the woods<br>&NewLine;Lacking mother&comma; father&comma; and dudes<br>&NewLine;Life is sour to him&comma; like waded blank skies<br>&NewLine;Always shedding tears&comma; for his parent’s demise<br>&NewLine;<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;facebook&period;com&sol;ikirigo&period;jerrypet&period;7&quest;fref&equals;ufi" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank"><em>~ Ikirigo Sokari Jeremiah<&sol;em><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>24<&sol;strong><br>&NewLine;Bathed aloft the shore<br>&NewLine;Swayed by the mermaids call&comma;<br>&NewLine;My pleasures thought no lie&comma;<br>&NewLine;Blank sky a mime<br>&NewLine;dancing the mermaids rhyme&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Awake in slumber in fate&comma;<br>&NewLine;My sky a mirage and blank&period;<br>&NewLine;<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;facebook&period;com&sol;iugoh2&quest;fref&equals;ufi" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank"><em>~ Ugoh Chris Jnr<&sol;em><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>25<&sol;strong><br>&NewLine;Blithely bright&comma; the skies vamoosed all<br>&NewLine;Aliens of injustice dark pall<br>&NewLine;The clouds&comma; our hopes reek<br>&NewLine;The stars from which we delight dream<br>&NewLine;Long were sunk in churlish sky’s stream<br>&NewLine;Yielding us blank goals&period;<br>&NewLine;<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;facebook&period;com&sol;moshood&period;abbey&quest;fref&equals;ufi" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank"><em>~ Razaq Moshood Abbey<&sol;em><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>26<&sol;strong><br>&NewLine;We expected something bright<br>&NewLine;We hoped for better than fight<br>&NewLine;Now&comma; every thing make us fright<br>&NewLine;We can’t see the sun that gave us taught<br>&NewLine;We live in world that spit black light<br>&NewLine;<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;facebook&period;com&sol;Shekinahella&quest;fref&equals;ufi" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank"><em>~ Shekinah Francis<&sol;em><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>27<&sol;strong><br>&NewLine;The sun sleeps in deep slumber<br>&NewLine;The light goddess has gone drunk<br>&NewLine;Murdered she&comma; her children in their number<br>&NewLine;That the covering of the heavens be shrunk<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>See the naked dance of the gods<br>&NewLine;I did not say&comma; the skies are blank&period;<br>&NewLine;<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;facebook&period;com&sol;adegbite&period;joyasepeoluwa&quest;fref&equals;ufi" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank"><em>~ Adegbite Joy Asepeoluwa<&sol;em><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>28<&sol;strong><br>&NewLine;I’m now a native of the street&comma; no more necessary<br>&NewLine;A patient of night who injects me with cold breeze and endurance<br>&NewLine;I’m now a indigine of the elusive world who holds conferences with vision of the 2020’s<br>&NewLine;What actually brought me here&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>You are no wise man&comma;wake up&excl;<br>&NewLine;you have been reading the blank skies<br>&NewLine;<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;facebook&period;com&sol;peter&period;adeniyi&period;16&quest;fref&equals;ufi" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank"><em>~ Peter Adeniyi<&sol;em><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>29<&sol;strong><br>&NewLine;After that night you pinned my heart with words<br>&NewLine;I ceased not to visit the little rock you left me<br>&NewLine;Summoning the stars and moon to<br>&NewLine;Keep me company<br>&NewLine;Leaving memories as a witness<br>&NewLine;While we stare at blank skies<br>&NewLine;<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;facebook&period;com&sol;oluwatosin&period;kolawole&period;5&quest;fref&equals;ufi" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank"><em>~ Oluwatosin Faith Kolawole<&sol;em><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>30<&sol;strong><br>&NewLine;Railing of hopes fell<br>&NewLine;when stars wilted off sky’s branch<br>&NewLine;like the effect of drought&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Faithed fates fainted<br>&NewLine;when the wobbling moon withered off<br>&NewLine;while wandering on the bushy path called dream&period;<br>&NewLine;<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;facebook&period;com&sol;tquality&quest;fref&equals;ufi" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank"><em>~ Adedayo Adeyemi Agarau<&sol;em><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>31<&sol;strong><br>&NewLine;<em>Kabir Abdul<&sol;em> I would have called you a fool<br>&NewLine;But I know you are only a tool<br>&NewLine;In your heart lies hatred as vast as these blank skies<br>&NewLine;I know your dreams are filled with ghosts you murdered<br>&NewLine;That is why on a poetic slab<br>&NewLine;I hereby lay you for slaughter&period;<br>&NewLine;<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;facebook&period;com&sol;ken&period;bena&quest;fref&equals;ufi" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank"><em>~ Ken Bena<&sol;em><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>32<&sol;strong><br>&NewLine;These skies were once enchanting covers for our worlds&period;<br>&NewLine;Until they plucked their stars to Sambisa forest<br>&NewLine;And battered their suns and moons with hellish hot rods<br>&NewLine;Who’ll win us y’llow breads and give us milky juice from breast&quest;<br>&NewLine;They’ve made us the people of the blank skies<br>&NewLine;Fragile pieces of shattered fam’ly ties&period;<br>&NewLine;<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;facebook&period;com&sol;isholaayodele&period;wasiu&quest;fref&equals;ufi" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank"><em>~ Isholaayodele Wasiu<&sol;em><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>33<&sol;strong><br>&NewLine;Clusters of armies of stars in array<br>&NewLine;Lightening up the sky like a firework<br>&NewLine;Full moon in glittering hue of honey<br>&NewLine;Crested like an indelible round stamp<br>&NewLine;Yet I couldn’t decipher the beauty of this marvel<br>&NewLine;For my gaze sees none but a plain of blank skies<br>&NewLine;<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;facebook&period;com&sol;olubode&period;victoria&period;9&quest;fref&equals;ufi" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank"><em>~ Olubode Victoria<&sol;em><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>34<&sol;strong><br>&NewLine;Since it is the season of slaughter<br>&NewLine;I may as well add&period; A billion liters of blood<br>&NewLine;Won’t change the skies expression<br>&NewLine;It has seen a billion years<br>&NewLine;What else can happen today<br>&NewLine;That is new under the clear&comma; blank skies<br>&NewLine;<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;facebook&period;com&sol;jerriwho22&quest;fref&equals;ufi" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank"><em>~ Olisa Onye<&sol;em><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>35<&sol;strong><br>&NewLine;Trusting minds<br>&NewLine;Loves my mind<br>&NewLine;Believing souls<br>&NewLine;Pleasantly consoles me&period;<br>&NewLine;Just in the times of darkness<br>&NewLine;I look up to the sky<br>&NewLine;Not even the silver lining was sight<br>&NewLine;<em><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;facebook&period;com&sol;poeticmind002&quest;fref&equals;ufi" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">~ Esoterik Joshua<&sol;a><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>36<&sol;strong><br>&NewLine;Like every day&comma; i arrived at my solemn place&period;<br>&NewLine;To befriend the stars and watch the moon smile<br>&NewLine;But tonight i feared&comma; for the silence of the night<br>&NewLine;For long i waited&comma; dreaming of the joy to come<br>&NewLine;But like forever&comma; in my eyes they have all gone<br>&NewLine;<em>&lbrack;Leaving me with blank skies…&rsqb;<&sol;em><br>&NewLine;<em><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;facebook&period;com&sol;MobolaMobola&quest;fref&equals;ufi" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">~ Mobola Oluwapelumi<&sol;a><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>37<&sol;strong><br>&NewLine;The crops&comma; dead before birth<br>&NewLine;foetuses lacking nutrients<br>&NewLine;The ground&comma; a murderous slayer<br>&NewLine;Aborting the pregnancies of hope<br>&NewLine;As the skies stand blank<br>&NewLine;not shedding desired tears<br>&NewLine;<em><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;facebook&period;com&sol;bravedaveo&quest;fref&equals;ufi" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">~ Bravedave Abisoye Osifeko<&sol;a><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>38<&sol;strong><br>&NewLine;flights of fantasy<br>&NewLine;dares the dreaming eyes<br>&NewLine;dome of the celestials<br>&NewLine;tears to melt sorrow as ice<br>&NewLine;our earth desires these essentials<br>&NewLine;highfleets fly freely in this mystery<br>&NewLine;<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;facebook&period;com&sol;dennis&period;dighiminisanami&quest;fref&equals;ufi" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">~ Dennis Dighimini-sanami<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>39<&sol;strong><br>&NewLine;We are the blank skies<br>&NewLine;Witnesses to this racial prejudice<br>&NewLine;They made a slave of us<br>&NewLine;As morons without brains<br>&NewLine;Until we rumbled and exploded<br>&NewLine;The blank sky ain’t blank&excl; They cried<br>&NewLine;<em><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;facebook&period;com&sol;chinaza&period;ikeagwuonu&period;7&quest;fref&equals;ufi" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">~ Chinaza Ikeagwuonu<&sol;a><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>40<&sol;strong><br>&NewLine;Still remain blank-the skies<br>&NewLine;ejecting unseen air<br>&NewLine;as we breath<br>&NewLine;enters our lungs and heart<br>&NewLine;we know not<br>&NewLine;save us oh lord from diseases<br>&NewLine;<em><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;facebook&period;com&sol;godwin&period;james&period;904" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">~ Nseobong Barasuene de Poet<&sol;a><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This poem was jointly written as a class exercise by <strong>39 Nigerian poets&sol;students<&sol;strong> of the <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;facebook&period;com&sol;groups&sol;WRRCollegeOfPoetry" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">WRR College Of Poetry<&sol;a> &lpar;<em><a href&equals;"www&period;twitter&period;com&sol;Poetry&lowbar;College" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">&commat;Poetry&lowbar;College<&sol;a> website&colon; <a href&equals;"www&period;college&period;wrr&period;ng" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">www&period;college&period;wrr&period;ng<&sol;a><&sol;em>&rpar;&comma; a subsidiary of the <a href&equals;"www&period;wrr&period;ng" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank"><strong>WRR Group<&sol;strong> &lpar;<em>&commat;WRRPoetry<&sol;em>&rpar;<&sol;a>&period;<br>&NewLine;It was compiled by the College Editor <a href&equals;"www&period;facebook&period;com&sol;brainypoet" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">Kukogho Iruesiri Samson<&sol;a> on Monday&comma; August 18&comma; 2014 and first published on <strong><a href&equals;"www&period;poetry&period;wrr&period;ng" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">WRR 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