Literature
- I Remember...
I remember throwing stones At the village silence and Laughing at the ripples Tonight, I remember eating it all And throwing it back I remember The headache and Mama?s bitter herbs The kicks from my uncle and Empty knocks from aunty Even the toothless...
- ...aisha
I knew this much much earlier I knew you were not just a flower but the hidden treasure of my secret dreams yes, I know? these waves shall forever roll on, breaking on the distant cliffs of our yearning hearts to soothe our souls your beauty, fresh like...
- Iruwa Has Killed My Death (poem)
I will not die Iruwa has killed my death buried her in my grave Isu will not see my nakedness Iruwa has taken the burden he has married my wife out to concerned relatives and left my twelve children at the mouth of my grave with ragged memories of things...
- A Smile On The Rock (poem)
Swelling foes can only stir the star in the eagle heart to stare the eclipse in the groin raise the last battle roar and strike, strike strike to carve a smile on the rock and let granite smile hasten the day! © Sumaila Isah Umaisha...
- Eternal Love (poem)
Somewhere someone is waiting the stranger part of me waiting... to be realized someday in a final embrace of that eternal moment a moment when love will be love not this ellipses that fill the heart with painful meaninglessness emptiness a moment when...
Literature
Fasting! (poem)
The name is not
the substance
is the name
it is not the fasting
but the hidden
presence of food
drawing saliva from
hunger?s mouth
when giant yawn
halted mid-air
replicates through
the simmering desert
sucking tears
from open sockets
there is no lie
you cannot lie
when your heart
is the heart of that
little love, fragile
looking for a hole
to escape like a dream
conceived at night
by day
by day
and all the delicacies
eating you up!
there is no lie
you cannot lie
to keep up
the sweet little
slavery
you must be strong
to be weak!
the substance
is the name
it is not the fasting
but the hidden
presence of food
drawing saliva from
hunger?s mouth
when giant yawn
halted mid-air
replicates through
the simmering desert
sucking tears
from open sockets
there is no lie
you cannot lie
when your heart
is the heart of that
little love, fragile
looking for a hole
to escape like a dream
conceived at night
by day
by day
and all the delicacies
eating you up!
there is no lie
you cannot lie
to keep up
the sweet little
slavery
you must be strong
to be weak!
© Sumaila Isah Umaisha
- I Remember...
I remember throwing stones At the village silence and Laughing at the ripples Tonight, I remember eating it all And throwing it back I remember The headache and Mama?s bitter herbs The kicks from my uncle and Empty knocks from aunty Even the toothless...
- ...aisha
I knew this much much earlier I knew you were not just a flower but the hidden treasure of my secret dreams yes, I know? these waves shall forever roll on, breaking on the distant cliffs of our yearning hearts to soothe our souls your beauty, fresh like...
- Iruwa Has Killed My Death (poem)
I will not die Iruwa has killed my death buried her in my grave Isu will not see my nakedness Iruwa has taken the burden he has married my wife out to concerned relatives and left my twelve children at the mouth of my grave with ragged memories of things...
- A Smile On The Rock (poem)
Swelling foes can only stir the star in the eagle heart to stare the eclipse in the groin raise the last battle roar and strike, strike strike to carve a smile on the rock and let granite smile hasten the day! © Sumaila Isah Umaisha...
- Eternal Love (poem)
Somewhere someone is waiting the stranger part of me waiting... to be realized someday in a final embrace of that eternal moment a moment when love will be love not this ellipses that fill the heart with painful meaninglessness emptiness a moment when...