Poet of the Week from Nigeria: Niyi Osundare
Osundare was born in Nigeria in 1947, and studied at the Universities of Ibadan, Leeds and York (Canada). Today he is a Professor of English at Universities of New Orleans and Ibadan. A very political poet and a dedicated campaigner for human rights, his award-winning Selected Poems were published by Heinemann in 1992.
I SING OF CHANGE
W.B. Yeats"Sing on: somewhere, at some new moon, We’ll learn that sleeping is not death, Hearing the whole earth change its tune.”
- I sing
- of the beauty of Athens
- without its slaves
- Of a world free
- of kings and queens
- and other remnants
- of an arbitrary past
- Of earth
- with no sharp north
- or deep south
- without blind curtains
- or iron walls
- Of the end
- of warlords and armouries
- and prisons of hate and fear
- Of deserts treeing
- and fruiting
- after the quickening rains
- Of the sun radiating ignorance
- and stars informing
- nights of unknowing
- I sing of a world reshaped
FUUO Past Poets of the Week:
http://fuuo.blogspot.com/2012/05/african-poets-of-week-compilation.html
http://fuuo.blogspot.com/2012/05/african-poets-of-week-compilation.html
