The crescent moon rises
Peeps through the aperture
Into our dark mind chambers
Where we lay back to back...
Author - Austyn Njoku
Austyn Njoku studied French Language and Literature at the University of Port Harcourt. A poet and short story writer, Njoku's poems have been published in recent anthologies like Passport to the New World (edited by Sunny Ayewanu in collaboration with The Nigerian Commission for UNESCO) and the International Library of Poetry anthologies. More of his poems have been published in Nigerian national newspapers and magazines and put to Baroque music in THE SOUND OF POETRY. His first collection, I've Been A Crew, got an Honourable Mention in the Cadbury Association of Nigeria Authors (ANA) Poetry Competition. Scents of Dawn is his second. The former Treasurer of ANA, Lagos chapter, is sadly now deceased.
Oku ngwo nye m otu mpi palm wine tapper, give me one cup Ka m nuo n’afo to drink into my stomach Nye m otu mpi o...
It was May, 2010. I received a text message inviting me to a poetry reading at 11, Maryland Crescent, Maryland, on May Day. I had ignored an earlier invite...
FEBRUARY 13 You killed the dream My dreamy muse And reality now stares Naked like the bust Of Venus; I wanted This dream! And not The reality of your...
AMADIOHA’S MEAT If you eat Amadioha’s meat remember, his unholy visit! The king who shields his eyes from the famine in his land will soon see his...
As I write this painful piece, his mangled body lies in the mortuary at the General hospital, Ikeja, Lagos. This is so sad, more so because his beloved...
