Poetry

"...colder within than without..."

"...Seasons and time come and go..."

"...yesterday’s marks were never quite wiped clean..."

"... luckily the smell gave it away..."

"...all the pages all the words he had written..."

"...Warm autumn winds brush my cheek..."

"...The glory of autumn becomes a vision of the past..."

"...terrifying criminals are usurping the local people’s lands..."

"...a fire that uses kind girls as kindling..."

Yahuza Usman [Crawling Writer], the Secretary of Taraba State branch of Hilltop Creative Arts Foundation, is a Nigerian award-winning author, essayist, spoken word artiste, book reviewer, Wikimedian, typist, graphic designer, short-story writer, and a versatile poet who has many of his works featured in many literary magazines.

"...you refuse the lake when the lake refused you..."

Memories in haiku

"...my Italian grandfather, a carpenter from Calabria, built this house..."

Collaborative Tan-renga

"...junkyard dog illusory correlations..."

"...Are these fluctuations or the fallout of love?..."

"...Music embraces the two of us..."

"Oh wooden bear standing tall!"

"...Does toil fetch you death?..."

"...The road to forgiveness is wavy at best..."

"...A lie, a mother once uttered, to protect her child..."

"...he misses London every day..."

"...how your kindness and scent carried me through that year ..."

"...O garden beloved to me..."

"...records spinning on deceased Saturday nights..."

"...old Tom swore his son, Tommy, never would a miner be..."

Shamik Banerjee is a poet from Assam, India where he lives with his parents. His home is surrounded by a beautiful hill.

Memories in haiku

"There you are...."

"...I found him wordless..."