Eguria

  “A Government Driver on His Retirement”     -ONU CHIBUIKE   Many years on wheels, In faithful service to his fatherland Today retires he home And a celebration to holds   Many years has he pummeled his boozy throat? In obedience to duty rules and regulations Today he’ll go home a freeman Eligible for his country’s service,   Come friends, rejoice with me I shall booze and zoom myself home “Away from duty rules, Come celebrate my freedom’ Early to duty tomorrow holds not, Thirty five years of faithful service I’ll booze to sleep away my sufferings Today I’ve long waited for”   More joy to send him home A brand new car in his name An appreciative symbol For undented thirty-five years of service to Fatherland.   “Come friends and rejoice more, Joy till no more joy to joy Today frees and makes me a king My patience rewarded”. And so, he boozed and boozed Celebrating the celebration of...

         “Black Woman”  -Leopold Sedar Senghor   Naked woman, black woman Clothed with your color which is life   With your form which is beauty! In your shadow I have grown up the Gentleness of your hand was laid over my Eyes And now, high up on the sub-baked   Pass, at the heart of summer, at the heart of moon. I came upon you, my promised land, And your beauty strikes me to the heart Like the flash of an eagle   Naked woman, dark woman   Firm-flashed ripe fruit somber raptures Of black wine, mouth making Iyrical my mouth Savannah shuddering beneath the east winds   Eager caresses Carved tom-tom, taut, tom-tom muttering Under the conqueror’s fingers   Your solemn contralto voice is the Spiritual song of the beloved.   Naked woman, dark woman   Oil that no breath ruffles calm oil on the Athlete’s flanks, on the flanks of the princes of Mail Gazell...