Citizen of Words / Citizen of Poems
Nuhu Yarwa · 1992
Citizen of Words
Like a capsule holds a substance
Words and wordings are poem
As word preserves and defends
memories
Each and every memory:
The good, and bad and ugly:
Of resplendent words and word-
ings
And sparkling idioms and phrases;
Of connecting simile and metaphors,
And palpable mottos and titles:
Even record of courts are words;
Testaments and wills are poems
They are words and wordings;
The artistic gorgeous painting is man
As word is the beauty of man
And nature is also word
Every word is thus a poem.
Word is root of poetry
And poetry is good and excellent
Unlike wrestling and boxing hob-
bies,
Twin-like art of nerve breakings
Poetry is a creative art
Or call it a restive science
Imagination they all portray
Its good for the good of human intel-
lect
A road toward all new social order
Citizen of Poems
Words encapsulate man full
As there are beautiful words
So aplenty are ugly equivalents;
As there are beautiful thoughts
As there are uglier expressions;
As all talks are expressionist feel-
ings,
Because all expressions are poetic-
poetry;
Poetry being simple and gentle
A conscientious art;
A genuine painting
Some beautiful and refined
Some excellent and succulent,
Others bad and poisonous,
And many ugly and funny
Stupid is their proper qualification
Word is the man
Anyday
Anywhere;
As object of his transmission
Conveying him and others in thin
air
From no-where to every-where:
North, West, East and South,
Circumambulation of the whole
compass;
The Earth infinite
The whole planet
All infinities!
EDITOR’S NOTE
First published in Citizen, Monday, August 24, 1992.
Source: Archiving.