Such a pity… — Bilkisu Yusuf

The archive Such a pity… Poem by Bilkisu Yusuf · 1992 Such a pity we are all blind,Ungenerous, shunning others witha blind,Alwayswicked, hatefulasifbound. Such a pity we are all one,But unneighbourly as if in a pro-miscuous barn,Yet lovers of progress, peace allround. Such a pity the world is a stage,As bad actors we are all […]

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For B… — Odia Ofeimun

The archive For B… Poem by Odia Ofeimun · 1982 Your eyes grow their knives into yesterday to slash the hug, the webs that closed us up in the blissful coop of our time of ostriches But you know that what went before cannot be undone by either the violence of mind or the fission […]

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