Category: Poetry
Heart of Poetry: Alhaji Mudi Sipikin’s Wasiyya Sipikiyya by Ismail Bala
Wasiyya Sipikiyya (Sipikin’s Will) O Lord! I request that the day I should pass away, Let me die in my room. Before my family members, children, and siblings. I beg […]
Heart of Poetry: Abubakar Othman’s Wordsworth Lied by Ismail Bala
Spoken in the voice of the poet, Wordsworth Lied is an ambitious poem that also assumes too much, not only as it attempts to give a new definition of poetry and what it entails, but as it introduces the reader into a commonplace definition of poetry given by William Wordsworth.