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Hearty Kathy — Bello Y. Bida

The archive Hearty Kathy Poem by Bello Y. Bida · 1994 A very beautiful lady Really pretty baby Is my hearty Kathy She’s never selfish And hides a stronger wish The wish to share her life To care all the time Whoever she holds so very dear Have no awful nagging fear As she cause […]

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Go away disappointment! — Abdulmalik Moh’d Shaba

The archive Go away disappointment! Poem by Abdulmalik Moh’d Shaba · 1994 I have been in love for two years It has been so much appreciated By my friend and relations I have wanted to marry her for love. I have given all my love to her I have given all my pictures to her […]

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Transition — Njoku Austyn C.

The archive Transition Poem by Njoku Austyn C. · 1994 Sit down beside me On these seated grasses Put your arm around me The way a lover should Rest your fair head And flowing soft mass Upon my able shoulders Let’s watch the gold sun As it recedes across the river And the wearied fishermen […]

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I still love her — Uncredited (Citizen)

The archive I still love her Poem by Uncredited (Citizen) · 1994 There is a girl sweet and kind I did glance her moving across the street She stares at me as she passed She waved not as she turned And yet I still love her till I die So fast she will never be […]

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Adoring the dead — Mustapha S. Bello Paiko

The archive Adoring the dead Poem by Mustapha S. Bello Paiko · 1993 I rose from my nocturnal voyage Aloof from the living day light As the tentacles of the rays of the morning sun Pierce through the crevices of my hut’s shutter I arise! I gazed up at the sky I looked intensively at […]

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I yearn — Armaya’u Umar Baba

The archive I yearn Poem by Armaya’u Umar Baba · 1993 I yearn I hold you and touch you I yearn For our hearts to beat as one I yearn To feel your breath and warmth against mine I yearn. But Lo! There are barriers Laws we both respect Patient we have to be Until […]

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My petite — Abba T.A. Sheriff

The archive My petite Poem by Abba T.A. Sheriff · 1993 Oh ye my petite Your golden brown shirleyless face Magnetise I to you Your milk-white eyes brighten my heart Your fairy voice my best melody Your velvet lips need no stick Your thirty-two brighter than diamond Arabian damsels envy your hair Oh ye my […]

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Adolescence — Josie Louis — Adokuru

The archive Adolescence — Josie Louis Poem by Adokuru · 1993 I heard of him, I met him, And then he wrote me. I shunned him, I scorned him, And then we became friends. Thrown over us, The cloak of friendship, Binds us together, forever. We craved for more, A much more stronger cloak; And […]

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Talking love — Nuhu Yar’wa Bida

The archive Talking love Poem by Nuhu Yar’wa Bida · 1993 Like a man and woman pairs man and poetry peers walking side by side in pride Like two souls sharing a common thought: As one is made from the other And that other is fused to the other Like say the case of magnet […]

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Love’s promise — Isah Saleh Ajingi

The archive Love’s promise Poem by Isah Saleh Ajingi · 1992 Aisha, my Aisha, What a beautiful name. Aisha, promise me, That no one but me alone. Aisha, if you mean it, I will remain happy in life. Aisha, please keep your words,. So as to shy the onlookers’ imagination, Aisha, your smile of favour, […]

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