'PEERLESS UNIVERSITY' AND OTHER POEMS -Bello Sagir Imam

The first poem here was published on Page 45 of 'BUK Today' magazine of January 2016, and it's historic, being the first one I rendered in a live radio program)

PEERLESS UNIVERSITY
-Bello Sagir Imam

The Nigerian version of Sankore
Erected in the shadow of Dala
As heterogeneous as the country
Bestowing the nation with light
Manufacturing credible leaders

The home of a dual cap and emeriti
Platform for learners and teachers
Nigeria's 'A' Grade Institution
Born opposite Dukawuya
But now based at Rimingata

Bearing 13 faculties and 70 departments
It hatches what can be hatched by none
Who excel in all disciplines
Helping the country grow and develop
Becoming the envy of all

Unwavering I'm, being loyal ambassador
For my university par excellence
The song sung now is
Above every university, there is BUK!

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(C) Bello Sagir Imam 2015.

I HAVE A DREAM (1)
(For Ummu Abdullahi. After reading 'I Have A Dream' of Martin Luther King)
-Bello Sagir Imam

I Have A Dream
that you're married
to a man of your choice

I have a dream
that you're blessed with
bright kids

I have a dream
that you graduate
at the top of your class

I have a dream
that you and your hubby
are love birds

I have a dream
that you become a relief
to your parents

I have a dream
that you separate with
your parent in peace

I have a dream that
your husband achieves
his lifetime dreams

I have a dream
that you became
a first lady

I have a dream
that you became
a star of stars

I have a dream
that you leave a legacy
to this generation
and to the posterity

I have a dream
that your son
becomes a president

I have a dream
that your grand son
becomes a governor

I have a dream
that you help
millions of poor people

I have a dream
that you re-unite
with your hubby
family and friends
in Firdaus.

(C) Bello Sagir Imam 2015.

I CHERISH YOUR BLUE EYES
-Bello Sagir Imam

A voice asks me every moment
Why I enjoy being a student
And my grade the best emolument
'Your blue eyes are my merriment

I cherish your blue eyes

Yes your blue eyes, at *BUK is my feast
To defend them I can clench my fist
That's why I marry the east
To live longer and tell the gist

I cherish your blue eyes

Eye contact with you cause
Me to understand all my course
And that's always the source
Of my food and a sauce

I cherish your blue eyes

In darkness you don't need light
Even in the grave at night
They will make it look bright
The eyes *NEPA can't fight

I cherish your blue eyes

I feel jealous in my mind
If men cherish your eyes in my land
I pray to marry you soon or you go blind
Before jealousy kills me, killing of this kind

I cherish your blue eyes

Blue eyed are blue eyed only
But you're in addition, Godly
For this I cherish them happily
And thank God for making you rarely

I cherish your blue eyes

Hello, accept me to be your hubby
And you be the mother of Sumy
Not forgetting Abdul our baby
And other babies with nanny

I cherish your blue eyes

*BUK is an acronym for the Prestigious Bayero University Kano. *NEPA: National Electricity Power Authority.

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(C) Bello Sagir Imam 2015. 
                         

THE SUN STILL SHINES
(For Sheikh Aminuddeen Abubakar)
-Bello Sagir Imam

When Kano was a grave
The sun rose from the heaven
Shining every where
The sun set suddenly
When his trumpet was blown.

He was a cloud
Raining scholarship
A voice
Silencing Ungodliness
A water
Washing away paganism
A sword
Beheading prostitution.

In the land of the Prophet
Azra'I'll seized him
And Arabs envied his leaving:
He is now a candidate of paradise
Like Ja'afar and Albani
Dr, our greetings to the duo.

While resting in peace
Keep enjoying the fruits 
of your trees and our prayers.
Should we not behold
That Sheikh's exit
Is prologue to doomsday?

(C) Bello Sagir Imam 2016.