If ever I knelt Before the very altar of God I’d shed no tears Compared to this river flowing And the drums playing Within my heart I call it murder I stare in utter wonder The way you walk in such perfection And yet stir in me Such pitiless emptiness It’s hard to tell And … Continue reading »
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IN THE UNBROKEN MOONLIGHT (A Poem) by Hyginus Ekwuazi
In the unbroken moonlight on the Plateau: all the pains I’ve secreted away in the deep hiding places of my heart they crawl out, these hidden pains like insects from underneath these stones that dot the Plateau slowly, from deep within the tears come but the abressive winds dry them up… ..in the unbroken moonlight … Continue reading »
COME OUT (an extempore poem) by Su’eddie Vershima Agema
Flow, the Muse calls… I know not what to write. The words flow but nothing comes out right the journey from the heart to the hand stops the communication from the hand to the heart flops… Come out, words, come out! I bring to the screen the flow of my heart hoping it to juxtapose … Continue reading »
IF THIS LIFE IS ALL WE HAVE (A poem) by Dennis Brutus
I read ‘If this life is all we have’ first in the university while undergoing my first degree. I wasn’t as versed as I am today but it made so much sense. Now, I share it again as it makes sense differently to me in the hope that it makes some sense to you too. … Continue reading »
SU’EDDIE VERSHIMA AGEMA READS AT PURPLE SILVER: PERSONAL THOUGHTS
Okay, so, I did my reading at Purple Silver. It was fun. It had been one of those days. As the time drew near, I got my phone remembering one or the other relations or friends who I could have called but didn’t. Well, big deal, abi? I searched all through for what to read. … Continue reading »
Far too long (The Silence Lingers) – A poem by Su’eddie Vershima Agema
(For A…) Through it all, I lost your touch For some reason the silence lingers The space widens The elasticity of love and friendship stretches longer Is it work, time or hard luck? Is it that the thought of fondness no longer gladdens? Whatever it is… For some reason, the silence lingers The space widens … Continue reading »
Chinua Achebe: Death, Where Are Thy Claws? – Niyi Osundare
Chinua Achebe is one of those epically unique individuals whose lives have been so full, so purposive and so impactful that we begin to pray that they will never die. But who doesn’t know that that is mere wishful thinking? To be sure, the Eagle on Iroko didn’t die young, but he left when … Continue reading »
STUBBORN SOUL (A POEM) by Kator Hule
(for Chinua Achebe) You Stubborn Soul Saturate with thoughts they hated You who littered stubborn words in our hard hearts Words too stubborn to die Too stubborn to be forgotten You literary glitterati Die! The grief that strides Like a bullet through Biafra forests during the war, you pierced Too stubborn, you refused to die … Continue reading »
THE MESH (A Poem) by Kwesi Brew
We have come to the Cross-roads And I must either leave or come with you. I lingered over the Choice But in the darkness of my doubts You lifted the lamp of love And I saw in your face The road that i should take. Kwesi Brew (1928-2007) is one of Ghana’s foremost … Continue reading »
Twenty Years Later (A Poem or something like that) by Su’eddie Vershima Agema
(for my sister, Sefa Renay Charles-Ayede…) She said we are twins differed by a few years… yes, she the little rascal clipping off her hair at intervals. I could tell her tale over and over but what more do I say? I think of her today again remembering those years – twenty – when I … Continue reading »
