A Poem

Gladys Casely-Hayford, read by Newgatenovelist (LibriVox)

“A Poem” asks the four winds to rest a tired traveller: the North for her feet, the South for her heart, the East for her lips, the West for her soul. Published in The Messenger in March 1926, under her pen name Aquah Laluah. Gladys Casely-Hayford (1904–1950) was a poet whose mother was a Krio educator from Freetown. She taught at the Girls' Vocational School in Freetown and wrote some of her poems in Krio. This reading is by a LibriVox volunteer.