Coming and going these several seasons,
Do stay out of the baobab tree,
Follow where you please your kindred spirits
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Very nice poem which depicts what a typical abiku child is making the parent go through. Masterpiece from John Pepper Clark
I grow up loving this poem, I even recited it over and over again. JP Clark is a legend and was one of the beautiful minds that inspired me into poetry. Your writings will never disappear from the sands of time.
Add a comment.I read this poem far 2002 in my JSS 3.is a nice poem.
Great poem you wrote there. More grace to your art. Thanks for sharing.
This is the poem I grew up reading. With this and Wole Soyinka's version of 'Abiku' I fell in love with poetry and graduate to being a poet. As a high school literature students, we were taught that 'Abiku' is a Yoruba belief of stillbirth coming to the same mother. What a reminiscence this poem is for me!
The tales of abiku. Abiku is a repetition of something supposed to be good the repetition makes it bad
I have read this several times and the artistry of Clark still beckons for emulation
I love that poem. It reminds me of my post primary years