One by one into Darkness we emerged
Welcomed by the stars, the moon, and the sun.
The trees inform the birds;
Birds sing their jubilations.
By the seaside the sands await …
Poem, in its entirety, is available in the printed version of the current issue.
Bio:
Anayo Dioha is a Nigerian Igbo-born writer and lawyer and is currently a PhD researcher at Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University in Anambra, Nigeria. He has been compiling poetry over the last four years and has written over 250 poems, the majority of them sonnets. He loves to loop a tennis ball over a table and enjoys a shallow or deep refreshing conversation during a walk with his Queen.