Poems by Aminu Femi Jamiu

Επιμέλεια: Εύα Πετροπούλου Λιανού

Bio: World Record Holder Aminu Femi Jamiu is an Internationally recognized, Award – Winning Nigerian Poet, Author, Editor, Social Activist, International Ambassador Of Peace, Universal Icon Of Poetry, recipient of several National and International Awards, including the Gujarat Sahitya academy award. He was born on 26th October 1994.
He is an HND holder of Biochemistry from Kogi State Polytechnic, lokoja, Nigeria.
Femi has authored two English poetry book “Poetry Pearls” and “Cosmic Voice” (The International Anthology of Contemporary Global Poets), co-author of 20 Anthologies. His poems have been published in many Magazines, Journals, E-zines and Newspapers. His poems have been translated into many International languages. Recently his poem has been published in Guinness World Record holding Anthology. He has been featured as one of the World’s Contemporary poet. He’s the founder and president of the international literary online platform “Home of Global Writers.
Femi is currently working on an Anthology title “The Poetic Canvas” (The World Poets Anthology), with aim to feature Poets across the whole countries in the world.

POETRY

Poetry is deeper than you know
It flows like an ocean
Vast like the universe
Here am I
In Her path of immortality
Sailing and sinking in metaphor
As simile smile ironically
At the waves that hunch back
That ushered my arrival
But nature weaved me in a poem
Out of her cosmic pot
To be sung as a lullaby
Laying the Sun
And the Moon to rest
In this literary sky
I’d sail like an eagle
Soar deeper into the ether
Breath the breath of poetry
Till I lay my golden quill
On the lap of nature.

©Aminu Femi Jamiu

THE CONFLUENCE CITY

The very heart of Nigeria you are,
Displaying her historical relics
Where the great rush of River Niger kisses that of Benue
In you, the face of Floral Shaw, Lugard linger in the museum
As monuments of great histories
Coined in wonder, of those ancestral artefacts
And the iron of liberty
That symbolize the abolition of slavery

In you, Nigeria begot
No wonder!
You dignify your soil
With tombs of Her colonial masters
Great are your ancestors
The home of heroes and heroine
A free rendezvous of all travellers
The beauty of your mount Patti attracts attention
Like a flower; a swarm of bees
You’re the Nigeria in micro mileage

Like the unity of the seven colors of the rainbow
You speak three languages as one
The sun burns like hell, towering in your sky
And your breeze brings chillness
Like the freezing snow of Harmattan
Your wrinkled terrains tell great stories
As you sit on a valley’s table
With your arms embracing the Futa Jallon highland
What a centre of attention you are!
The cynosure of a wonderful confluence.

©Aminu Femi Jamiu

SOUL

Soul is immortal
She’s is part of nature
Soul do travel
Give yours a wing
Let her flee with nature
To wander above the hills
And soar beyond the highest heaven
Let her sail along with the gentle breeze
Through the depth of the ocean
Feel the breath of the mother-Earth
And dance the fantasy of this universe
To bring thee tales and wisdom of ages
For soul can sing the songs of nature
Soul is immortal
Soul do travel
Give yours a wing
She’s part of nature
Ready to sail forever.

WE ARE HUMANS TOO

We are not as fortunate
Just as your kids
No inheritance
And formal education
To gain our liberty

When the scorching sun
Burn like hell
When the rain beats
Like bullets on the roof
And when it storms

Throughout the night
We are there trudging the labyrinth of paths
For we lack an abode
To lay our heads
Each day seeking

For a place to rest
With empty bowel
Off we set to beg for alms
Stopping passersby and strangers
Just for little food
To feed ourselves

With tattered attire
Designed with parching treads
Many keep despising us
Refusing to offer us bread
Thinking we are not human

To them, we are only beggars
Who have no vision
Hope and aspiration
As they give us no attention
Just because of our shabby nature
And sun tanned face

Though we are beggars
Just because we are orphans
Cheated by Nature
So stop despising us
For we are humans too.