The archive Watchman Poem by Shehu El-Hafiz · 1992 You there, with sharps eyesPeering into the dark:What do you see —Is it the emaciated antsOr those belching rats and rats?And listening with pricked ears:Do you not her the groansAnd jeering guffaw from velvety voices?You there, with heartBoiling and slamming and flutter-ing:Splintered soul down the drain! […]
The archive Return to Zango Poem by Kabir Abubakar Mohammad · 1992 Let fear dominate you notFor the greatest enemy is fear itselfHave control over thy fearsYour fields are screaming for careYour homes longing for thy pres-enceYour dead feeling quite desertedReturn to Zango with no fearsAs the injured oneHave no fearTruth is stronger than outlandish […]
The archive Sweet Child of Bethlehem Poem by A. G. A. Sam, Ghana · 1967 Sweet Child of BethlehemThe door of my heart, this day,I open, Lord, to Thee,Stay, I pray, always with me,Sweet Child of Bethlehem. To Thy little manger lead me,Where flow never-ending blessing,Where nightingales joyfully singing,Just Thy beauteous self to see. My […]
The archive Plight of the poor Poem by Ishaq Isma’ila Haruna · 1992 Plight of the poorIn a world of riches, poverty isobscene. Not many of thoseblessed with the goodies ofthe earth, care for the wretched ofthe earth. Yet they exist and look-ing, the other way does not erasetheir world of neglect. for me, now,I […]
The archive Breach To Bones (TO GABRIEL) Poem by T. C. Nwosu · 1980 Breach To Bones(TO GABRIEL) It's useless to glimpseat the dotted disappearanceof a dark stairway… He came bespectacled, blind to his stick and stachel,cast in a form that could holdany worldly-wise ambitions to ransom,mere feeble hulk in its deathward drift,vanishing vacuum clothed […]
The archive Rise and fall of geniuses (5, 6, 7, 8) Poem by Peter B. Cuktu · 1982 5. Rise and fall of geniusesSome climbing and crashingFor search of daily bread –Husks, fragments,Boiled-salted leavesAre delicious mealsAnything can fillThe empty stomach,But hardly a day passesWithout the mentionTo this great "lack" –Stripped of everythingIt's major cause to […]
The archive Voice of penury Poem by Emmanuel Ekpevwrus · 1992 Voice of penuryAffluence oftentimes lullspeople into the warm em-brace of contentment. Rosypictures of posh life shield theeyesore of the slum. Life of ease forthe minority easily obscures thewant and deprivation of the major-ity. But stifled voices of protest findexpression in poetic verses. Theyreflect their […]
The archive To those deprived Poem by Ibrahim Sheme · 1993 Many are displaced bywars. Wars that could beavoided. Some are vic-tims of natural disasters. Hungry,homeless and lonely they trek theearth’s sandy fields looking forrelief. No matter how long it takesor how scanty it is, their life de-pends on it. Such is the plight ofthose […]
The archive Most beautiful girl in the world (For Hope) Poem by Isaac Umunna · 1992 Beauty queens of all shapes and sizesThe trumphet has soundedCome out from your worldOf self-deceptionFor the real beauty contestAbout to beginYour crowns of paperI do not recogniseCrowns won by parading nudeBefore lustful judgesAnd whistling watchersSupple flesh and body statisticsAre […]
The archive We are the few survivors here Poem by Sam Onwuka · 1970 To bury our deadWe areThe few survivors leftTo walkBetween the ashes and the crumbling walls. 2Breathe faintly the air they breatheRaspings in air unseenUnheard in quiet placeTell stories Of flavour heardOf scent seen— Tell stories of wasted words in prayerBlinking car […]