African Writing Online; Issue Four; Poetry Page

Adelaida de Juan
Amatoritsero Ede
Ambrose Musiyiwa
Andie Miller
Anton Krueger
Bridget McNulty
Chiedu Ezeanah
Chris Mlalazi
Chuma Nwokolo
Clara Ndyani
David Chislett
Elleke Boehmer
Emma Dawson
Esiaba Irobi
Helon Habila
Ike Okonta
James Currey
Janis Mayes
Jimmy Rage
Jumoke Verissimo
Kobus Moolman
Mary G. Berg
Molara Wood
Monica de Nyeko
Nana Hammond
Nourdin Bejjit
Olamide Awonubi
Ramonu Sanusi
Rich. Ugbede. Ali
Sefi Attah
Uzo Maxim Uzoatu
Vahni Capildeo
Veronique Tadjo

          Credits:
   Ntone Edjabe
   Rudolf Okonkwo
   Tolu Ogunlesi
   Yomi Ola
   Molara Wood

Four Poems

Kobus Moolman

At night
the mountain is a silence
hunkered between
absence and feeling;

5 Poems

Richard Ugbede Ali

I sketch the lines of your face
And feel the contours of what you’ve seen
Now that your flower is full unfurled
And merely awaits a withering

Poems

Chiedu Ezeanah

Speeches bearded

And clean-shaven

Pound the air everywhere.

So much pathetic data,

Such a plethora of eggheads;

So much dearth of sense.

Six Poems

Anton Krueger

white guys can’t beg,
they haven’t learnt the ropes yet.
you see them standing at the robots,
their signs limp in hand,
looking stolidly ahead
while the zimbabweans work the crowd

The United States of Amnesia

Esiaba Irobi


your words And the memory of that afternoon glistens like the skin of a snake gliding across the road


Retrospection
	Olajumoke Verissimo

I am the memory of Sierra Leone serial loan of enchanted bitterness of Liberia lying burials of ailing serenity of Sudan sudating hunger and impaired righteousness.


Four Poems

David Chislett

I can pore over Encyclopedias Or check the meaning of what I saw In dictionaries Doesn't change what I thought then No matter what I understand now


Globetrotter
Amatoritsero Ede

		where all colours meet a rainbow democracy signals spring in affairs of state our liberal estate weathers a conservative thaw


Hunger & Work. Jimmy Rage

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