Make no mistake; there will be no forgiveness; No voice can harm you and no hand will save; Fenced by the magic of deliberate darkness You walk on the sharp edges of the wave; Trouble with soul again the putrefaction Where Lazarus three days rotten lies content. Your human tears will be the seed of…
DetailsFor every bird there is this last migration; Once more the cooling year kindles her heart; With a warm passage to the summer station Love pricks the course in lights across the chart. Year after year a speck on the map, divided By a whole hemisphere, summons her to come; Season after season, sure and…
DetailsCrossing the frontier they were stopped in time, Told, quite politely, they would have to wait: Passports in order, nothing to declare And surely holding hands was not a crime Until they saw how, ranged across the gate, All their most formidable friends were there. Wearing his conscience like a crucifix, Her father, rampant, nursed…
DetailsI sing of the decline of Henry Clay Who loved a white girl of uncommon size. Although a small man in a little way, He had in him some seed of enterprise. Each day he caught the seven-thirty train To work, watered his garden after tea, Took an umbrella if it looked like rain A…
DetailsHe that is filthy let him be filthy still. Rev. 22.11 Like John on Patmos, brooding on the Four Last Things, I meditate the ruin of friends Whose loss, Lord, brings this grand new curse to mind Now send me foes worth cursing, or send more – Since means should be proportionate to ends –…
DetailsA Nation of trees, drab green and desolate grey In the field uniform of modern wars, Darkens her hills, those endless, outstretched paws Of Sphinx demolished or stone lion worn away. They call her a young country, but they lie: She is the last of lands, the emptiest, A woman beyond her change of life,…
DetailsBuhari emerged the third millionaire in the Skye Bank Millionaire Reward promo Season II, in the third draw held in Sabon gari, Kano, at the weekend. Along with Buhari, 10 customers won the sum of N100,000 and N50,000 respectively; while 20 other customers won N20,000 each. In the promotion targeted at traders, artisans, students, businessmen…
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Al Jazeera news reports that : “The Syrian army and allied armed groups have started moving large numbers of troops to a desert region on the country’s border with Iraq and Jordan as US-backed rebels make advances nearby, according to rebel sources. Speaking to the Reuters news agency on Monday, rebel sources and commanders…
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