In ''Abiku'', the statement

''Yams do not sprout in amulets

To earth Abiku''s limbs....''

Simply means

''But it is not the time

To lay wreaths

For yesterdays crimes...''

Lenrie Peters in his poem, We Have Come Home'' makes this statement because

In J.P Clark's 'Olokun', the line 'No greater love has a woman' signifies

In J.P Clark's Olokun', the line
'So drunken like ancient walls'
means that the worshipers are drunken with