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Poetry: from Hafiz on how to write poetry & Halvah By Tares Oburumu

March 23, 2019March 23, 2019 By Ngiga

You are honey
mixed with fluorescence
in a glass cup. Light & fire.

I drink fire & I fall into the regions
marked for heated psychasthenia, the poet of Kilifi

out of schizophrenia a heavenly place.

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POEM: Of Things I Never Forget By Adesina Ayobami Idris.

March 19, 2019May 11, 2019 By Ngiga

it is how we string names to our parent
& i find my father in each letter,
such as how he died on a woman’s chest
with a gin buried in his breast pocket,

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Poem: Sir Amarata Briggs By Tares

March 10, 2019March 10, 2019 By Ngiga

So they put the books he has never read in his casket, and let the sea have him.
This is how to bury a hundred year old Poet Laureate, who exchanged
his childhood for a volume of books on how to cure dementia.

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