Victor Okechukwu Anyaegbuna

Victor Okechukwu Anyaegbuna Poems

They do not believe in Nigeria
Who send their children to school abroad
While the ones at home rot and decay.
In ill-funded dilapidated schools
...

Biafra is still on my mind
They have done nothing to erase it.
I still hear everywhere,
Words that betray my serenity;
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A while, a while
O yet another while!
Let this while begin now
to resurrect from graves
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Mothers get so pained seeing their children cry
They guard their loins ready to fight
And die to pamper their old babes.
They starve to give their angels cheer
...

Integrity has insulted and humiliated me
So much that I have only lived
In the paradise of pre-existence
In a world that change
...

You have dotted the multihued skies
With your credible finite goodness;
You have destroyed ancestral curses
And earned us wholesome splendid victories
...

I walked down the lonely forest
With a batch of unseen faces
And myriads of voices unknown.
At the outskirts, something obscure
...

Now, I have searched the capacious darkness
Kindled by rootless kernel-oil lanterns.
I have also peered through abstract valleys
That spark of light, lit by waxy candles
...

Pregnant lions in the Anambra political landscape!
The buffalo is starved and full of bones!
White gutters of the roving blue clouds
Store boulders of water for a show of power….
...

Master, I see you beyond
In grey gutters of white clouds
Sailing reverently around ripples
Circling the kingly bed;
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Vagabond
Carefree, thoughtless
Wandering, despising, perambulating
Negligence, irresponsible … Rectitude, dreamer
...

In life’s dreams so bounteous
We live and fly like pregnant clouds
Waiting to deliver volleys of heavy rains;
Sourcing pleasures that kill pains
...

Mortal death is not a punishment
But an immutable Law of the Almighty.
Trees die, lizards die, Chickens die,
Goats and dogs die, even lions and elephants,
...

Every cell in my body talks of God
Every organ in my whole frame talks to God.
He rattles every cell in my being
And makes it sparkle with life.
...

Why won’t this mattress
stop its chit-chat
with this stubborn
grease proof quadruped.
...

I flew like an eagle in the air
And landed on his chest.
His tongue reeled out promises
Of our El Dorado,
...

17.

He dangles the toll of our self-esteem;
Pride for race, dignity for gender:
Proof of the blackness
Of snow-white brains and grey matter.
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18.

Dirty grey old rags
hanging loose
on tree tops and ceilings,
numb and lifeless,
...

Let me be love’s image
And let my wishes stride
Titanic over mountains of flesh;
Let my prayers be tenants of age
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Spare me your painful pity
When my breath shall cease
To spur my ailing frame.
...

Victor Okechukwu Anyaegbuna Biography

Victor Okechukwu Anyaegbuna, was born on November 11 (Poppy Day) , in the first year of the second half of the twentieth Century, at Aba in Eastern Nigeria, as the first of seven children of same parents. He attended the elite Government Secondary School, Afikpo in Eastern Nigeria where he was Editor-in-Chief of the school's 'Purple Times' newsletter. He also attended the University of Nigeria, Nsukka where he graduated with the Bachelor of Science Honours (B.Sc Hons) degree in Biochemistry, and was President of the Society of Biochemistry Students. Thereafter, he served under the Nigerian National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) scheme after which he joined the College of Medicine of the University of Lagos, Nigeria where he was Editor-in-Chief of the 'MEDILAG Journal' and graduated as a Medical Doctor. He is a member of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) , The Association of General and Private Medical Practitioners of Nigeria (AGPMPN) , and the American College of Physician Executives (ACPE) . He was also the Chief Medical Officer/Proprietor of Levan Medical Center in Festac, Lagos, Nigeria after which he established the VOA-Levan Initiative for Medical Counsel and Aid. In his very own words, 'he who acquires honour in his native homeland acquires recognition in heaven.' Victor Okechukwu Anyaegbuna, a Community Leader, is a distinguished son of Umuife Family Kindred (Umunna) in Uruaneke Village Umuoji where he holds the Nzeani Traditional Chieftaincy title, Ezennia. He is also Ichie Nwanonukpo (The Nwanonukpo of Umuoji) , a first class traditional title holder and an Ichie of Cabinet Rank in his native homeland Umuoji, where he has also served as President-General, Umuoji Improvement Union Nigeria (Worldwide) , forty years after his father (Chief J.B.C Anyaegbuna) and 90 years after his grandfather (Chief Leopold Okoji Anyaegbuna) who incidentally was the pioneer President General of the Town Union in 1926.)

The Best Poem Of Victor Okechukwu Anyaegbuna

Enemies Of Nigeria

They do not believe in Nigeria
Who send their children to school abroad
While the ones at home rot and decay.
In ill-funded dilapidated schools
That scorn knowledge and create poverty.

They do not believe in Nigeria
Who go for medical treatment abroad
To kill our clinics and hospitals,
Frustrate the doctors in our land
And empower lesser brains in the diaspora

They do not believe in Nigeria
Who loot our commonwealth
To develop mansions in the diaspora
While our villages are raped and wrecked
By flood, gulley erosion and penury.

They do not believe in Nigeria
Who spend wealth to buy private jets
And bullet-proof land cruisers;
Build tunnels and bunkers in their homes
To escape when they create calamities.

They do not believe in Nigeria
Who do not reckon with local news media
But crave for office to serve other nations
And announce their plans on foreign media.
To gain acceptance in foreign lands.

They do not love Nigeria
Who kill to get power,
Tempt and spoil our womanhood
With ill-gotten wealth.
And revel to defy the face of God.

They do not love Nigeria
Who mindlessly drive past little children
Sent to hawk on streets
By poverty and hunger
Created by politicians in power.

They do not love Nigeria
Who steal and peculate our national wealth
Take bribes from tax payers
To do the jobs they are paid to do.
And flaunt great wealth
In the midst of ravaging mass poverty.

They do not love Nigeria
Who filch away land to get rich
And destroy their poor owners;
Send many to their early graves
To declare power that bloodshed sustains.

They do not love Nigeria
Who bribe Judges to oppress the innocent
And buy off elected legislators
To pass anti-people laws
And sustain poverty in the land.

They do not love Nigeria
Who terrorise the land
With guns, machetes and bombs
To oppress freedoms
Our polity is meant to uphold.

They do not love Nigeria
Who accept money and gifts
From desperate cabals
To vote for evil leaders
And rig elections for them.

They do not love Nigeria
Who embezzle public funds
Meant for farming and farmers
To stave mass hunger
That douses mass discontent.

They do not love Nigeria
Who buy rovers, land, estates,
And mansions across the land
While the majority of our people
Lack shelter and live under bridges.

They do not love Nigeria
Who for greed, amass wealth
For their yet unborn children
Thus depriving the living of good life,
And creating urchins across the land.

They do not love Nigeria
Who seek political power
To oppress justice and play god
In the lives of men and women
Who toil and labour without gain.

They do not believe in Nigeria
Who feed fat on loot and graft,
And either lie, or shut their mouths
Like ‘good' Africans of the new world
Who must not talk while ‘chopping'.

They do not believe in Nigeria,
Who give nothing to her, but take all
To keep our nation marching backwards
While they revel in foreign lands
Made from the sweat of patriots.

Victor Okechukwu Anyaegbuna Comments

Sandra Feldman 01 October 2023

You do me great honor which I deeply appreciate!

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Sandra Feldman 01 October 2023

Thank you so much for reading and commenting on my poem, Unforgettable Feelings.

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Leopold Onyeuwa Seyi Benoni 22 January 2020

This is a poet above his time. His deep insight is intriguing.

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