Chei, Bigger Thomas
how you died--
roasted on the electric chair!
How I wish you had earned your first salary
before you got into trouble!
Neither you nor your mother
and siblings enjoyed your first pay.
Just the first day at work
and... – by Israel Chinonye Uche | 5 Views added 1 year ago
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Chei, Bigger Thomas
how you died--
roasted on the electric chair!
How I wish you had earned your first salary
before you got into trouble!
Neither you nor your mother
and siblings enjoyed your first pay.
Just the first day at work
and... – by Israel Chinonye Uche | 5 Views added 1 year ago
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Chei, Bigger Thomas
how you died--
roasted on the electric chair!
How I wish you had earned your first salary
before you got into trouble!
Neither you nor your mother
and siblings enjoyed your first pay.
Just the first day at work
and... – by Israel Chinonye Uche | 5 Views added 1 year ago
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Chei, Bigger Thomas
how you died--
roasted on the electric chair!
How I wish you had earned your first salary
before you got into trouble!
Neither you nor your mother
and siblings enjoyed your first pay.
Just the first day at work
and... – by Israel Chinonye Uche | 6 Views added 1 year ago
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You can treat me with scorn
you can treat me with disdain
you can insult me
bully me
because
you are rich,
powerful and influential.
Yes, you can belittle me
because you have pedigree,
remember there is God(Chukwu).
But, remember... – by Israel Chinonye Uche | 3 Views added 1 year ago
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You can treat me with scorn
you can treat me with disdain
you can insult me
bully me
because
you are rich,
powerful and influential.
Yes, you can belittle me
because you have pedigree,
remember there is God(Chukwu).
But, remember... – by Israel Chinonye Uche | 4 Views added 1 year ago
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Stop pointing
accusing fingers;
first remove the plank
in your own eyes
before accusing others.
In your little world
you commit more atrocities;
you commit more crimes
than hardened criminals;
you wreck much havocs than savages
and... – by Israel Chinonye Uche | 13 Views added 1 year ago
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Reuben was the first
but became the Last
when Jacob cursed him
for
for sleeping with his
father's wife.
Esau
was the first
but became the Last
when he sold
his birthright
because of gluttony,
and eventually
lost his blessings.
... – by Israel Chinonye Uche | 19 Views added 1 year ago
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Sitting in the dungeon
in ashes and sackcloth;
languid
hopeless
troubled
afflicted
worried
Sitting in the dungeon:
is there any hope of a better tomorrow?
Can tomorrow be better than today?
weeping may endure for the night
but joy... – by Israel Chinonye Uche | 12 Views added 1 year ago
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When Belshazzar
read
this handwriting,
his
troubles began.
MENE, MENE, TELEl, PARSIN
King Saul
read
this handwriting
and
lost his throne.
Jeroboam
read
this handwriting
and
his kingdom
was taken away
from him
... – by Israel Chinonye Uche | 9 Views added 1 year ago
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Yes, the white man came down to Ala Igbo, Umuofia. The missionaries converted people to Christianity, and churches were established.
All the unimportant people quickly joined the church, including Nwoye, Okonkwo's lazy son, whom he disowned.
... – by Israel Chinonye Uche | 9 Views added 1 year ago
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One fine afternoon, probably, a Thursday evening, a quarell ensued in the family of Moses.
Mariam and Aaron castigated Moses, the last child of the family for marrying an Ethiopian wife.
God heard them abusing Moses and intervened.
He rebuked... – by Israel Chinonye Uche | 13 Views added 1 year ago
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The Sun
the Moon
and the stars:
children of heaven.
The Sun
the Moon
and the stars
children of heaven.
The Sun is the father
the Moon is the mother
the stars are the offsprings.
Children of heaven
children of heaven
children of... – by Israel Chinonye Uche | 6 Views added 1 year ago
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"Not even God can sink this ship", so came the powerful answer. "How strong is the ship?"
But the Titanic sank on its very first voyage.
Yes, the Titanic sank.
Yes, the Titanic sank.
"How strong is the Titanic?"
"Not even God can sink the... – by Israel Chinonye Uche | 5 Views added 1 year ago
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The Bible is God's Word to humanity. It is not fable, or folklore as people say, but the Word of God.
The Bible is physical-the letter; but the effect on man is spiritual.
The Word of God brings healing, deliverance, salvation, guidance,... – by Israel Chinonye Uche | 3 Views added 1 year ago
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The Diary Of Anne Frank gives details of the movements of the Van Dann's family.
The family hides from place to place, to avoid being arrested by the Gestapo.
It is an offence for a Jew not to identify himself with the 'Star of David'. And they... – by Israel Chinonye Uche | 8 Views added 1 year ago
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The women
of Athens
needed their husbands
at home
to do the needful
to give them pleasure
But the men chose to
battle
with the Spartans.
The women of Athens
went on a sex strike.
Yes, the women
of Athens
went on a sex... – by Israel Chinonye Uche | 1 View added 1 year ago
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Moses was a great man of God
a great man of God,
a great man of God.
Yes, a great man of God.
Moses rejected the pleasures of Egypt,
but chose to be a Jew,
yes, a Jew.
Moses chose to be a
Jew;
he could have remained in the palace
and... – by Israel Chinonye Uche | 13 Views added 1 year ago
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When trouble came:
Jesus prayed:
"O Lord, let your will be done!"
And he overcame.
When trouble came:
Elijah fled.
He ran away and prayed:
"O Lord, I have had enough,
take away my life."
His ministry ended abruptly.
Just like that.
... – by Israel Chinonye Uche | 16 Views added 1 year ago
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Kunta Kinte stepped out into the river bank (Gambia River) to cut wood for his drum, after his duty as a village guard.
He is captured by toubob (white man),and transported in a ship to America...in 1770.
Kunta Kinte is sold as a slave. He... – by Israel Chinonye Uche | 21 Views added 1 year ago
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"Call upon me in the day of trouble..."
yes, in the day of trouble
yes, the day of trouble
yes, the day of trouble.
Do you have a God to call upon in the day of trouble?
Do you have a God to call upon in the day of trouble?
Do you?
Do you?... – by Israel Chinonye Uche | 30 Views added 1 year ago
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No woman, no cry...
Adam got into trouble
because of Eve,
because of Eve,
who gave him
the forbidden fruit.
the forbidden fruit.
Adam ate the fruit
and lost his place
and lost his place
in the garden
in the garden,
forever...
... – by Israel Chinonye Uche | 9 Views added 1 year ago
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Bob Marley
was not joking
was not joking
when he sang the song:"He who fights and runs away,
lives to fight another day."
Saddam Hussein
fought
and refused
to run away.
Saddam Hussein fought his battle
and refused to run away,
... – by Israel Chinonye Uche | 26 Views added 1 year ago
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My friend
think about this life.
Think...think...think.
Keep on thinking
and thinking
and thinking
and thinking...
Until you become Aristotle,
or Plato
or Socrates
or Thomas Hobbes
or J. J. Rousseau.
Are you a saddist;
a loner--you... – by Israel Chinonye Uche | 11 Views added 1 year ago
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Be you Mindful O my mind;
like a ship in a stormy sea
you toss me.
A ship uncertain of its fate:
whether to find safety on land,
or be lost at sea;
or whether to be dashed
against rock and hope
to destruction.
In a world of illusion
... – by Israel Chinonye Uche | 26 Views added 1 year ago
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You are a slave
held in constant bondage
by those dirty habits of yours.
You are slave to those emotions
which make you act
before you reason
only to regret afterwards.
You are a slave
to those moribond beliefs
which shackle you in... – by Israel Chinonye Uche | 8 Views added 1 year ago
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Oedipus The King: Another sad story:
A boy child is born, and is taken to the Oracle at Delphai to know his destiny.
The priest is scared by the destiny of the evil child, as he predicts that the boy will kill his father and marry his mother.... – by Israel Chinonye Uche | 18 Views added 1 year ago
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I no longer believe
in hearsay;
or in rumours;
I now believe
in seeing
and believing;
I have been deceived a lot
by believing: hook, line and sinker.
I have been ruined a lot
by simply conceding;
to my detriment;
to my foolery;
to... – by Israel Chinonye Uche | 17 Views added 1 year ago
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Emperor Nero
killed
and killed
and killed
and got tired of killing,
and then God killed him.
God has the final say.
Emperor Nero
killed apostle Peter
he killed apostle Paul
he killed others
he killed Christians
he killed Christians,... – by Israel Chinonye Uche | 12 Views added 1 year ago
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Never did
I supplicate
to be born
into
this world.
In this
world
found I myself,
a lone ranger
sailing
alone
in this world
on the roughest
sea.
Here
am I alone
at sail:
tormented
and tortured;
buffeted and bullied
... – by Israel Chinonye Uche | 9 Views added 1 year ago
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