There’s one box in this room if three boxes are added and that is regarded there’ll be four boxes in this room. if six boxes are added and five more discarded there’ll be five boxes...
There are 15 cups in this poem. If you find less, someone has picked. If you find more, well, you’ve been tricked. If you find none then maybe there are no cups. At the end of this poem all the...
Tobi has fallen inside the water. Maybe he crashed. Maybe he flowed. The community is bothered about his daughter His wife is worried about the monies he owed Maybe he crashed, maybe he flowed If he...
What’s the last book you read What do think of the movie Making small intellectual conversation An early evening bath A scented bath Different from other baths A negligée in its true sense No...
Look right, left and right again I did But I’m still here On this side of the road. Others came, Did a snake dance without looking Except at the nose of the cars And they are there. Many have...
Look at this girl Who responded to an advert “If you can dance If you can sing If you can act Come to Ori Olokun Ile ife” I came , I saw ,I conquered. The Daily Times said, “The...
Opinions not shared Isn’t lack of ideas Smiles should be worn Tomorrow is an unborn child With another daughter, maybe son Just like darkness owes light Gifts we know nothing about Without...
the sweat of rain the savanna on my tongue we may cry wolf paradise may save all sinners the burning bush evenings that bring us olives beyond the frames of my eyes the eyes of darkness for...
I pick them anytime I bend down You cannot imagine the combination of rice, bitter leaf and celery In the mouth of an honest man . My hair stands on edge when a snake slides by Makes fanta smell...
”Africa” is a poem by the Afro-French poet David Diop (1927-1960), who was born in France to a Senegalese father and Cameroonian mother. Although he died at a young age in a plane crash...