Kaye (Nupe Poem) : Èzà Nupe Be Ngba è

Wo tá Nupe na

Wo jin ngba

Wo wó ngba na

Wo jin Nupe?

Masari ma Nupata

Nupata ci ma Nupe na

Masari jin Nupe?

Edegi ta ngba na

Edegi ci ma Patigi na

Patigi ci ka Nupe ma na

Edegi jin ngba?

Benu be Kutigi na

Benu ci ka ngba ma na

Benu jin Nupe?

Manko bé Raba na

Manko ci wó ngba na

Manko ci ma Nupe na

Manko jin ngba?

Maza bé Lapayi na

Jantabo ci ma ngba na

Maza be Jantabo è jin Nupe?

Babba bé Ganye na

Ganye ci ma Nupe na

Babba jin ngba?

Wo tá ngba na

Wo jin Nupe

Wo wó Nupe na

Wo jin ngba?

Ngba gá yi Nupe

Nupe ci ka ngba ma

Kpata wunji Nupe ga yi dan na à?

Kaye (Nupe Poem) - Haramu Tsúdò (Haram of a Stepmother)

By 

Isyaku Bala Ibrahim

(Laban ya Egi bòbòngi na tsúdò cin yita ya kin Neja ò na)

Yizheci dèdè

Na à nyagbanla panin na danna

Efobici

Na à kutila gan wun à de cincin ya ezabaci wun à na danna

Yizhe gò

Tosun eba ma à pin ù danna

Dzakan-dzalu

Gá ù pama be nyi ò èdùn ci ye fe ya wun à danna

Énágún-keya

Na de ègùn ka tsongi dan èkògi ù bo à na danna

Gbugbukeci

Na à eganmi Sòkó leba wunci emitu nyá shetan na danna

Èyà shetan

Na à woce dèdè kpin hari wun è dugwa yi ù danna

Eganmi-Sòkógùnci

Na à yawojin gubà lo guni fe haramu ya ebá ù na danna

Yèrènkpè-keya

Na à hanyi-hanyi jin etun dan nbo na la ewunsun nyina yi kanyi nyá esun yi kanyi na danna

Nna-bínákún

Na à éyéwu kpèdzò kpe ezamizhi kpátá na danna

Elibici

Na eli sakpa ù gán nyá gaci to dzagidzagi na danna

Nimi yekpa to etun dèdè à zhi ò ga a de

Ndoci na à egi-ezabaci ù du ta éna ò hari wun à cinkún, to ndoci ma yita egi bòbòngi ezabàci ù cinya ò

Ngba wunjin eganmi shetan nanazhi gá è wún ci è wú à

Zhizhi à ba yi ekun nana gun re ò

Ebona, ekungun be tsúdò dèdè nana à ce nyá Boko-haram danna

Oh Sòkó

Bò yi egwa tsúdò na yizhe ù yagi èkú ma ù bòmi na ò

Translation

Haram of a Stepmother

(For an infant from Niger State whom a stepmother brutally cut-off his genital)

Here is a worldly one

That has made jealousy her fashion

Here is the unrepentant one

That has sworn not to love her partner

Here is a vast world

But it has become very tight for her to live in it

Here is she

That has taken restlessness as a partner and finds it difficult to rest her rounds

Here is a trouble-breeder

That has no iota of pity in her heart

Here is a deviant

That has forsaken God and embraced Satan

Here is a friend of the lucifer

That has learnt a trade which the friend now thumbs-up her cruelty

Here is a sinner

That has prohibited divine lines that allow her husband have multiple kinds

Here is a velvet-bean of crises

That has made home new terror spot

Here is wickedness’ mother

That breeds horror in the hearts of a home

Here is an unmannered

That is fiercer than a witch or cannibal

Here - among their trade

One who boiled her partner’s infant to death and another who cut-off genital of her partner’s infant

Are these not the satanic lines that co-wives now worship and teach

Here is a battle

That needs the world’s hands because it’s fiercer than the fight against Boko-haram

Here we need God to save us from a co-wife

Who the world has forsaken and eternity cursed