A BREAKAGE OF SORROWFUL SONGS – For Refugees who meet the killers of their people we tread this earth Chewing the sun on our tongue In the broad day sun...
Author - Wazani Adamu Ijarafu
HOUSE OF TENDER PASSIONS – For Fatima Salihu Fati When sunset welcomes the evening breeze It puffs out the fragrance of your love into my many...
CARVER OF DREAMS To the God of sweet things Carver of dreams My tongue carries the music Of thousands of dead men Whose melody comes from an old song –...
ETERNITY Remnants of a shipwreck Touch of heaven, of eternity I hear the echo of a distant music. Pieces of me unearth, searching for a home A melody in my...
WHEN A FLOWER JOURNEYS I would not have told you That the first time I learnt to pray The attackers came with fearful sermons Wrapped all over their bodies...
‘WITH NO PICTURE BUT YOU You’re the canvas upon which God Paints his masterpiece Breathing and breathing you into life You’re a living soul...
OF SORROW I know a place of sorrow It’s here Where there are no youths To dance and sing for the moon Hear the silence It’s beneath the carmine ashes that now...
MELODY There is a melody In the song of a mad man who lost his lover To the romance of broken bottles He sings with the old woman’s tongue: You can’t know the...
