Bio

Humphrey Ogu is a poet, playwright, fiction writer, media and public relations practitioner based in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. He is the immediate past Vice Chairman of Rivers State branch of the Association of Nigerian Authors and co-founder of Seaview Poetry Club. His poems have been published in All Poetry, Poetry Soup, Lovepoetry, Pulsebeat, Shot Glass Journal, and other online literary magazines and platforms. He is the author of Echoes of Neglect and has also published widely in print anthologies in Nigeria, Kenya, and elsewhere. He currently works in the Information, Publications & Public Relations Unit of the University of Port Harcourt, where he serves as Associate Editor on the Editorial Board of UniPort News, the official bulletin of the University.

If
we
must flee
our nests, homelands,
in search of safer havens,
or greener pastures, let's beware of storms ahead,
else, we tread the path of perdition and get burnt by strange sun.