A graduate of English and Literary Studies, bayero university, kano, Aliyu Umar ABUBAKAR hails from Udubo District, Gamawa Local Government Area of Bauchi state. A poet and a writer working on his debut novel and collection of poems, ALIYU enjoys any literary and social discourse, especially with people alien to his world view.
Remember the day
We confessed albeit too late
You afar through a network and I lay
In bed talking to a roommate
...
The dying—atop this burning mountain,
here,
espy not the living—beneath this fertile land,
below
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When you
Long for me (when I am not by your side)
Stretch your sight
To the blank pages of night(I belong to the shades of night)
...
Is it not late
to inspire a dying man,
when he sees ethereal beings
the winged celestial lights? human beings
...