LOVE CONQUERS ALL

The unseen but your shape and image
Beyond the creation of the mind
A cause of serious ailment,
Yet cure is no where save in you.

No heart so hardened beyond your
Penetration and no heart so hard to
Destroy you.
The young, the old, the men, but
The women need you most.

Many souls are tempted be them
In sadness or in joy. Let them be
In agony, let them cry or rejuvenate,
No soul can play odd so far you exist.
It’s so ridiculous to make a ‘boohoo’ cry.
A soul at forty behaves the same.

© NURA AHMAD 2008

THE HEARTFUL MINDS

I have been told by my mind
Truly I need you
Surely I’ll have you
Not only to keep you
But also to love you
Not only to love you
But also respect you
Surely I need you
Truly I love you
It takes two to love

Love is blind
It takes two to ride in tandem
To be happy along together
To love is to hurt
Never to hate
To love is to care
Forgive and forget
To love is to have in
To be ready to give out
We have a good time together – Together we belong!

28/6/’99

© AWWAL B. A. DANGODAYI 2008

PLAYBOY

Old in every inch
Young at heart
Lydia call you “sweet Daddy”
Maria “uncle Joe”
You dress in fine Safari
You dress velvety dress
You ride your sleek Ferari
A white velvety dress
You ride you sleek ferari
A beautiful ltalian breed
Your scares and strategem
Begin at evening times
A programme
Running almost by the day
“I get them young”
Has become a recurring sentence
In your prayer book .

© ALIYU ABDULLAHI JIBIA 2008

ABUNDANCE

Look upon me with love
I implore you
Caste your imperial eyes on me
With love in abundance

Your sweet laughter is all
I want to hear
Echoes of my hearts desire
Are what your words tell

Wake up with me and give me
The little of Queen of your heart
Bring out from me
The beauty of cupid’s words

Whisper into my searching heart
Tell me you’ll never leave me.

© NANA SHEHU BAYERO 2008

AT THE TRAFFIC LIGHT

The amber, then the red light
Raised their invisible hands
Persuading me to stop, I did

Looking and searching on both sides
I stole a glance
Of that glorious face of hers
By instinct she turned and stole a glance
We exchanged some orphaned smiles
Just then the amber, then the green light
Impatience from behind noise build up

She turned right
I without choice turned left

Who owned that radiant face?
Where was she going from there?
I wonder!
I wonder….

© YUSUF ADAMU 2008

A CRY IN AGONY

CRY IN AGONY
(For the Corp members that died recently on a motor accident)

After hard moments of seeking admission
the hustles of registration
years of frustrations
long hours of lectures and practical
the mad rush for a seat on the bus
the shanty taxi spaces

the agony of dirty toilets
the strategic 101 formula
the beating of the rain
the heat of the merciless sun
the trial of missing tests and missing results
the tragedy of failure

the hour of glory came
just a second to the launching pad
all these sufferings came to naught
the young graduates were destined by fate
their bus crashed and went ablaze…
..few survivors …all others dead and mutilated
unidentifiable at death
what a tragedy for our nation

what an indictment for the State
‘we will stop night journeys’
is all they said after shading crocodile tears

what about renovating the roads
expanding them and making them safe
God bears witness in the burnt flesh of the victims
Of the corrupt nature of the system

May those who perished be forgiven by God
May they be compensated with His bliss!

© AISHA ZAKARI 2008
September 2003

WHY THIS BLOG?

This blog is intended to publish literary works by the members of the Association of Nigerian Authors Kano State branch. It is also going to publish news and announcements about what is happening in Kano's literary circles. A Hausa version of this blog is being run by Ado Ahmad Gidan Dabino. I run this for those who write in the English langauge.
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