À l’heure du tout à l’image et du buzz sans suite, «l’express» souhaite faire découvrir la plume de poètes, de chanteurs, d’écrivains et de tous ceux qui jettent leur âme sur le papier, et qui mettent en mots des réflexions profondes.

As soon as he woke up, already short of time was he

On his desk, lied a pile of composition essays from last night’s corrections

The red ink flowing with meticulous care, for those keen enough to see

The eyebrows coming together, when a vowel got dropped, a dissatisfaction

Thou shall learn with dedication and might!

Was his daily mantra, to students who waited to hear

The plays and proses brought into full light

While they busied themselves mugging up Wordsworth and Shakespear

The English Teacher showed his students a different learning path

With his constant coercion sprinkled with a humorous slice

The world of English literature took a less stern stand, growing out of its swath

Blow by blow, the emotions underpinning the lines were gracefully spliced

Hardy and Dickens, Williams and Austen

As the bluish smoke rose from his scrambled cigarette

So did the words dance in front of him, while the most sensible critics took birth with his silver pen

That would colour the learning experience of the student, like an artist’s palette

Chaucer and Wilde, Achebe and Narayan

Got immersed in his daily waltz as he explained the versatility of such novelists

Spanning different continents, yet contributing to a common goal in the big plan

The characters coming to life as the plot gradually unfolds, lifting up the reader’s mist

And just like Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, one day his world did too

And off he went, carrying his mine of literary treasure

And the books and trophies that stand proudly on his bookshelf, all so true

Are a testimony of the sterling Teacher that he was, in the fascinating universe of English Literature.

Bio : Titulaire d’un doctorat en sciences agronomiques et d’un MBA en «Leadership and Innovation», elle écrit depuis son adolescence des poèmes et des petites histoires inspirés des parcours de vie et des personnes qu’elle côtoie. Bibliophile, elle jongle entre lectures d’articles scientifiques et de livres, et occupe actuellement le poste d’«Ag. Research Manager» à la MCIA.