The archive Pastime Poem by Maikudi Sambo Z.S.Z · 1992 Poets of the Techtronic age Would you read me As I faithfully feel your faint groans In the most illustrious of your verse With success you sometimes echo Escaping from computers The sound and depth of your plight The sickness that makes you write The […]
The archive Who is a poet? Poem by Emilda I. Nyuidye · 1992 He is the loner In the ‘mad?’ world of creation Seeing and smelling Hearing and feeling and tasting From ordinary things What ordinary humans cannot Creating from nothing something With poetic magic And the skill of a smith He billows words into […]
The archive Money market Poem by Ibrahim Isa Abbas · 1992 The market for loans to the discount market Always the short-term loans market Because of the time value of money They apply interest rate on borrowed money In this market for call money Here you accept debt and become a debtor Or grant a […]
The archive Active Poem by Kabiru A. Muhammad · 1992 When our guns shout To silence the voice of oppression And the applauding tyranny They grow quiet banished to oblivion When our boots Ka-ka-kaed athundering And Khaki ours shine In an effulgent light Poised our bayonets erect Like charging rhino’s horn And our tanks’ trot […]
The archive Placards vs sirens Poem by Ibrahim Sheme · 1992 Their placards cried in red For freedom, for rights denied: all day Underground yet the pittance Could not even buy ball shorts for a kid; So in big reds the placards protested Thinking you could overcome Your animal lust and act human. Through the […]