After lunch break when I opened my office door which was normally evacuated at that hour of the day, I saw Christina waist upward and face downward half asleep on her office table. Nudg...

Sunday takes the salient segment of my weekly prayer calendar. When the story I’m going to relate to you took place I was heading to Saint Uriel church just downhill Kazan chis. A tall ...

Till today A desperate lad I’ve been pretending To love many a lass The tide of life

“Those who walk uprightly enter into peace; they find rest as they lie in death!” As custom bids, an invitee, I had to attend a luncheon thrown to commemorate the 40th-day death memori...

When I was about to dismiss class, “Teacher, may I ask you a personal question?” a bit afraid one of my best students who sat in the front row posed a question. It was two decades back ...

I remember the day to the minute detail as if it were yesterday. It took place on the eve of Timket (Ethiopian Epiphany) in the setting from Kazan chis Meneharia to Sidist Kilo. Early i...

After a busy day in my office, while I was having tea sitting on the veranda of a cafeteria found in the heart of Kazan chis, I witnessed a girl, with a comely face, bending forward fro...

Out of the blue, a cold sweat began coursing down Samson’s spinal cord when he caught the sight of a lady and a young girl presumably a mother and a daughter. They began approaching him...

As mother nature’s Punitive measure Against a society In maintaining The statuesque

On top of my labor In the farmyard I often proffer to you Milk, cheese, manure, and hide To render grand

(This article is adapted from the biography about Brigadier-General Legesse written by Major Eyob Abate in Amharic in connection with the hero’s 5th death anniversary /Edited by journal...

A warm morning sun Flickering a ray of light Making my fogy Bachelor’s heart bright, A curtain raiser

Absorbed in An anthology of Classic poems On a quiet night With wings of

Maxim Gorky referred to as a figurehead of socialist realism is noted for painting members of the fair sex with brighter hues. Right, it is hardly possible to get his works in which the...