The ultimate question — Suleiman Zailani

Is it love?Special BThat we now speakLike warring knightsAnd eye each otherWith mutual suspicionAnd question laden thoughts. Is it love?That whenever we speakWe weigh each weighty wordAs we tread on thin iceOf our hanging bond.Is it love?That whenever we sightEach other’s faceOur pulses quickenWith heads of trepidationIn the course and corollaryOf our encounter. Is it […]

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Id-El-Kabir (A day of peace) — Bilkisu Yusuf

A day of peaceA day to pleaseFestive air, a well-fed ramPenury put many in a jamBeyond reach is a small ramBeing no season to eat hamFor unclean meat brings harm. For the poor no meat to fryHopes shattered and children cryPoverty made it seem fairFor the poor to fearAnd the rich to eatMore meat than […]

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Through The Years — Queeneth .C. Otto

What would I ever do without You.And I thank God for knowing YouIt’s a New YearCome in it’s spectacular fashionHolding little or nothingBut depending on me andI on you Lord, and so I prayGuide me through my stupidityLead me through my foolishnessTake me through my lazinessHold me through my trialsSail me through to my triumphsAnd […]

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Mine to love — Kabiru A. Muhammad

I hope to giveReceiveFeel needed and lovedTo entrust my legal seedInto safety her womb’sThe noon sun is less fieryThan love’s dreamsFlooding orbits of my soulNaira scorned my loveMore genuine than genuine itselfMy muslimahOf the melodious laughRainbow to contented devoted loveIslam the flavourIn sauce of my life Kabiru A. Muhammad EDITOR’S NOTE Originally published in Citizen […]

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The night of power — Ahmad Umar Abdullahi

Rhapsodies of sweet angelsInundate a most hallowed nightEloquent phrases did, in white cloutsOf burning incense, sang melodiouslyLike the soothing pledges of anIndescriptic beauty to the attentiveListening of a matured, lover, the voicesIn chorus, sang their wonderful carolsIn the blessed night of QadrThe birds, insects and all, diligentlychirp, coo and hoot all night longOblivious of time […]

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Ode for the pilgrims — Abba Gana Shettima

They traversed to Allah’s sanctuaryAnswering His divine call of gloryFrom lands far and near to the qiblaAlgerians marching against new imperialismSupported by Afghans against MarxismIn partnership with Egyptians against atheismAre brothers to Nigerian unbelievers in secularismAll in alliance with Bosnian muslimsWho are victims and martyrs of ethnocentrismsFor that is the call of monotheismHere I am […]

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Crumps from Anee’s Table — Anam Ntukidem

Crumps from Anee’s Table Let the crumps fall:Millions of God's childrenAre dying of starvation,Like sore-littered LazarusYet nearly all of them pray dailyOn bended knees, hands outstretchedFor their daily bread. Let the crumps fall;So that the Kingdom of God may comeOn earth to meet them all alive.Let the crumps fall, even crumps,Though God's children may preferFresh […]

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