The Stars Have Departed by Christopher Okigbo

The stars have departed

The sky in a monocle

Surveys the world under

The stars have departed

And I- Where am I? ?

Stretch, stretch O antennae,

To clutch at this hour,

Fulfilling each movement in a

Broken monody

Christopher Okigbo

Christopher Ifekandu Okigbo was born in 1930. He was a Nigerian poet and he is today widely acknowledged as one of the most outstanding postcolonial English-language African poets and one of the major modernist writers of the twentieth century. He died in 1967 while fighting for the independence of Biafra.