Abiku [Smothering the expiring stench…] — ‘Funmi Joshua

Smothering the expiring stench,The failing breath of a dying one. Alloy with powdered roots and barks, my breathSo it does not cease but cling to lifeAs now I fear to die.Buy olonde, strong igbadiTie me down the roots of life.I have come to see you die.Marrow me in earth’s obscurer reachesSo the fossicking fangs of […]

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Abiku is born — Uncredited (Nigeria Magazine)

Read “Abiku is born”, an uncredited poem published in Nigeria Magazine on 01 Jan 1974, on abiku, motherhood and mortality.

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