My hat by Henry Parland
Tochukwu Ezebube is a passionate poet and founder of Poem Collections. With a deep love for African verse and a commitment to sharing diverse poetic voices, Tochukwu curates a rich tapestry of poems that celebrate the beauty of words from Africa and around the world. Join him on this poetic journey at Poem Collections, where the magic of language unfolds.
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So in this tilted alleyway that roll in debris to the sea I kick my way among the wealth of fish smells, fish bones, to my father’s home. Around me, children’s feet still walk to school with swinging bag and nothing more. No face, no feature scrawled upon the whirling disc the needle gnawing into…
Women of Africa by Ahmed Sékou Touré
Women of Africa, Women of the Revolution! You will rise up to apex You will journey endlessly At a walking pace of the social Revolution, To the rhythm of cultural progress, In the train of economic boom To the great and beautiful city Of the exacting ends And were in leading Your brothers, your husbands…
Poem: Come Away, My Love by Joseph Kariuki
Come away, my love, from streetsWhere mankind eyes divide,And show windows reflect our difference.In the shelter of my faithful room rest. There, safe from opinions, being behindMyself, I can see only youAnd in my dark eyes your greyWill dissolve The candlelight throwsTwo dark shadows on the wallWhich merge into one as I close beside you….
To a Friend on the Eve of May 1858 by Guido Gezelle
Once I see the flowery wreaths of May,the month of love for Mary and her Child,the month of love for thee, my pious friend,the month of love of poetry, more sweetThan love to both our blended loving hearts!Once more I see thee, glorious month, ascendTriumphant in the skies, whom first of allMy eyes did greet…
Abiku by John Pepper Clark
Coming and going these several seasons,Do stay out of the baobab tree,Follow where you please your kindred spirits If indoors is not enough for you.True, it leaks through the thatchWhen floods brim the banks,And the bats and owlsOften tear in at night through the eaves,And at harmattan, the bamboo wallsAre ready tinder for the fireThat…
I Give You Thanks My God by Bernard Dadie
I GIVE YOU THANKS MY GODI give you thanks my God for having created me blackFor having made of meThe total of all sorrows,and set upon my head5 the World.I wear the livery of the CentaurAnd I carry the World since the first morning. White is a colour improvised for an occasionBlack, the colour of…