The archive Lone soldier Poem by Isaac Umunna · 1992 Dressed in full battle regaliaAt attention you standYour gun by your sideYou have climbed the stepsAnd reached the podiumBut to come downFrom your lofty heightYou dare notWhere, O soldier,Lies your much-vaunted power?Twenty four hours each dayOn duty you areBattling furiouslyTo maintain the status quoLonely giant […]
The archive Poisoned Darts Poem by T. C. Nwosu · 1981 Hush me into your reverenceO stillness from the bushespoisoned darts with warmblack eyes arespringing againstthe leaping armsof turreted cars the birds are singingtheir hollow notesthe diamond-eyes arrow the sky and prayers hailthe showers of pea-sizedstones the heaving throat is parchedwith fearin the ice-cold goblet […]
The archive In his dwindling days Poem by Isi Omoifo · 1982 In his dwindling days he made very destructive weapons to demolish the cellblocks of hisown existence, built through dint of billion years when the earth was seafresh and all elsethrived in starry distance from the dread of his arm.He banished the fragrant breath […]
The archive The victims (For the Bosnian muslims) Poem by Mohammed Garba Bawa · 1993 Torture and terrorThey tasteWithout breakMadness and horrorUnlimitedThey witnessOppression and aggressionThey faceWithout respiteSadness and sorrowThey feelWithout endWill and strengthThey possessYet without armsThey’re helplessOur collective conscience being deadAnd our listening ears now deafJust as our watching eyes close againTheir yells for help […]
The archive The UN in a coma Poem by Abdulkarim Bendoka · 1993 The UN stands for nations Its charter a global arbiter To avert the orgy of killings By nations in emotional confusion To measure their aggressive antics Against their greedy passions In the chambers of collective parley The rendezvous of rational verdicts. The […]