Time,
Spent
Out,
Paints
The
Unfurling
Sky-
A
Plain-
Golden
Swept.
The
Dying
Disk
Of
Burning
Ochre
Sinks,
Sandwiched,
As
The
Earth
Pushes
Patiently
Against
The
Sleepy
Sky.
Cameroonian-born Nigerian poet and playwright, Ike Aro, has published several plays. He is the founder of Talent House Theatre, Port Harcourt. His collection of poems THR WEEPING EARTH won the 2004 ANA-Imo poetry prize. His poems has appeared in many anthologies in Nigeria and Cameroon.