New Year’s Eve Midnight by Gabriel Okara

Michael Turay December 31, 2021 05:15

It reminds me a lot. A very reflective and meditative peom indeed.

Hope January 03, 2021 13:34

"Now the bells are tolling – a year is dead. And my heart is slowly beating the Nunc Dimittis..........., And now the bells are chiming a year is born. And my heart-bell is ringing in a dawn. But it’s shrouded things I see" What an apt description of the realities of cycles of life.

Olawale December 05, 2018 06:50

Gabriel Okara, one of Africa's very best. For me, he sits just below Chinua Achebe himself on the poetry shelf, with his descriptive power.

mashuud June 27, 2014 18:24

Why? African culture, so interesting, somebody should tell me and lets enjoy it.

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