Timeless Intellectual Legacy-by Adnan Gujjar-Dedicated Poem

 

Timeless Intellectual Legacy

 O, Chinua, you are an aesthete,

You beautifully capture the African fleet.

 Things Fall Apart is still a class apart,

Your No Longer at Ease and Arrow of God are speechless art.

Soyinka follows thee in the richness of Africa,

Hughes adores the sacrifices in America.

Maya Angelou is still celebrated in Still I Rise, Morrison too echoes in Jazz ,

 Beloved, and Paradise. Okri's poeticality attracts worldwide emotions,

His fiction moves in subtle commotion. The Magic Lamp is the magical lamp,

The Famished Road is the lovely cushion. Fanon, the great Fontz,

Is a generational ask,

He beats and clicks through his White Skin, Black Mask.

Opening new doors for the intellectual folk,

Transforming the clichéd talk,

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, a radical thinker in the garden,

Challenging the rule for the native race,

The River Between flows like a river and stands tall,

Recalling the faith and your timeless grace,

Decades after decades, it never falls,

Following the footsteps of legends in poetics,

Amanda clicks in her ecstatic lyrics.

 'For there is always light' is a universal light.

Tamikio L. Dooley too is a fountain and sweet rehearse. By Muhammad Adnan Gujjar

 

 MUHAMMAD ADNAN GUJJAR

Muhammad Adnan Gujjar is a full-time lecturer in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Chenab, Gujrat. He is a poet, columnist, and the founder of a literary magazine, The Wordsmith E-Magazine. Currently, he is working on the 4^th edition of the magazine.