Category: The Poet’s Corner

By Victor Emmanuel Uwah At birth I was the joy and pride Of those who for a child had cried – They saw in me a little dear, And soon the news spread far and near. I lay enfolded on the bed While mother still had tears to shed – Tears of pain, but more […]

By Victor Emmanuel Uwah Be not envious of the workers of iniquity Who abound everywhere, both in country and city, For the Lord won’t make them abide too long in the land, But will scatter them and destroy all that they had planned. Don’t ever be afraid when threatened with what they have, Nor be […]

By Malcolm Little Black Piqued by the turn of events he drank a cup of vitriolAnd joined his ancestors His life was a woody perennial plant,With its share of rosesAnd kindred of thorns“And death, the key  To the gate of freedom”He thought… But alas,Life holds the padlock Beloved; Abortion is not always a sinEspecially when spurred bythe […]

By Malcolm Little Black I see the light that is in you As you see the lustre that is mine; My soul deep in its lushness Honours the taste of your wine I know the colour of your kindness; On the bowl of truth i chose to dine, And the subtle sound of the universe […]

By Victor Emmanuel Uwah Created by Him yet despised by men, Immutable though Truth stands out still, That when He’s denied and men complain They can’t His faithfulness thus repeal. Truth is the “Which Is”, for He’s the same From days of yore, today and fore’er: He changes not His aim nor His name, And […]

By Victor Emmanuel Uwah A single earth-life is just not all Nor my progress dares it to forestall, But forms part of an unbroken whole That makes the path of my striving soul. If my threads of fate on earth remain, There will be the need to come again: Or where there is none the […]

By Victor Emmanuel Uwah Men distort everything they have And reject every helping staff On which they were to have relied… Because of indolence and pride. Men think wise and clever they are, And thus their way to ascent bar, When they try with passion to twist Those concepts that now still exist. Such are […]

By Victor Emmanuel Uwah It may be true, my Love, that you are old: But with age your heart has learnt to be bold, Since it now abhors those deceitful arts Which are oft the delight of younger hearts. It is in old age that experience lies – Which made your heart through the years […]

By Victor Emmanuel Uwah Though your unrelenting heart will not kindly yield To melt the ice from your tender breast, Yet will that love in me not be killed In order to spoil my joy and rest. But should your conflicting mind be resolved at last And I be blest with your warm embrace, Then […]