FRIENDSHIP by Awa Chigozie Jerome
Friendship Pride has fangs It can kill Humility hangs In there to heal Trust is a bridge You are either taken forward In times of siege Or into an emergency...
ÌGBORÀN (OBEDIENCE) by Olusegun M. Lawal
Three brothers beautiful blood Soaring species and no blaming course Fossil religion? Not at all Within us Love and Peace reigns In togetherness they built their future In dreams their...
FAITH IN GOD by Ojo Adewale Iyanda
faith in God Singing crying wailing A life like bitter leaf Scarce always of honey Bile have hope than it Tears scare fear Encompass in her eyes Usually walk like...
WHITE LIE by Paul Word
I hid under this robe of pretence And watched you slit me in tense, The dagger sunk in five feet deep I stood, watching my heart weep. Lies wrapped in...
MAN ON A LEDGE by Prince Kuti Adetoye Olayinka
They say death is sweet Sweeter than honey,precious than money Tasting like ice cream eaten with biscuit. They say living is a crime For those who have nothing Owning only...
YOU AND I by Ikirigo Sokari Jeremiah
Poverty or in riches Full or empty dishes Forever together Its you and I Strong or ill Or whatsoever still Forever together Its you and I Crushed or bruised Be...
AFRICAN WOMEN by Mesioye Affable Johnson
Abeni, The pride born at the borders where virtues are valued On the integrity lying beneath the black skin and sparkling hair Where the jealous sun laughs in delight of...
DEAD RHYTHMS by Mesioye Affable Johnson
Filled in my eardrum are rhythms of doom with the sweet tone of despair tuned in by bombing tales of sacred nations with naive notions tied on boomed killings to...
WE STILL REMEMBER YOU by Sule T. Joshua
We still remember you: The Shepherd of our time, The 'fun' of our time, The mentor of still now, The tutor of our time, We won't forget you. We still...
GIVING PEACE A CHANCE by Goodness Ayoola
Over the bony oases rises a sorrowful song Like dark fumes in a broad day Whistling sonorously at random In the hamlet clutched in the fist of wars. The feud...