Month: <span>June 2016</span>

NEWS

BRIGITTE POIRSON POETRY CONTEST 2016: FUTO POET, CHINAZOM OTUBELU, IS MAY WINNER

Staff WriterJune 12, 2016

A student of the Federal University of Technology, Owerri (FUTO), Otubelu Chinazom Chukwudi, has emerged the winner of the May edition of the BRIGITTE POIRSON POETRY CONTEST (BPPC) 2016. Otubelu,...

POETRY

TRIBUTE TO STEPHEN KESHI by ‎King Mike John

Staff WriterJune 11, 2016July 22, 2017

Our son has gone to reunite with his wife, she left us not long ago, She left in haste without saying goodbye. She was young and unaged lovely to behold....

POETRY

I HAVE STOPPED WRITING by Samuel Amazing Ayoade

Samuel Amazing AyoadeJune 11, 2016August 21, 2017

Writers don't die, they live eternal Poets too are prophets, whose words are hefty Three thousand years, and I'll still be here So open your ears, and take heed to...

WRITING TIPS

EXCUSE ME ‘POET’, ARE YOU A WORD-SMITH OR A WORD-SPIT?

Kukogho Iruesiri SamsonJune 11, 2016August 3, 2020

Excuse my impetuous nature, but I want to ask a daring question: Are you really a poet —a word artist, or just a rambling mind, whipping a pen (keyboard) and word-spitting without...

POETRY

LIFE IS A CROOK by Agbaakin O. Jeremiah

Oluwatoyosi AgbaakinJune 10, 2016August 25, 2017

Life is a crook and though you pour him drinks and fill his bed with feathers and whores. It’s the uneven face of the sky it’s cloudy in Pompei as...

POETRY

…THIS VAN by Mfon Udoudo

Cletus NnaemekaJune 10, 2016July 22, 2017

Some trot Some walk Some stalk Some just talk Others hide in the grot. Steaming pot. Scenting aroma? If only it was a panorama showing scenes of this drama. But...

POETRY

MARIA by Samuel Amazing Ayoade

Samuel Amazing AyoadeJune 10, 2016August 21, 2017

I will pronounce your name, Maria I will pronounce you Upon the hills of Lebanon down the straits of Gibratah Upon the hills of Kigali Down the Sub-saharan arids Even...

POETRY

BACK IN THIS PLACE by Samuel Amazing Ayoade

Samuel Amazing AyoadeJune 9, 2016August 21, 2017

I’m back in this place where the moon rejoices at the hearing of melodious lullabies sung into the cranium of crying babies who are stuck to mother’s backs at the...

POETRY

FATHERS OF INSANITY by Abdulbasit Abubakar Adamu

Abdulbasit Abubakar AdamuJune 9, 2016July 15, 2017

We are fathers of insanity Rowing down these boats to the land of charity Like Zombies on the streets walking slow. But our infections on the body makes you low....

POETRY

KNOW ‘NO’ by Christopher Titus

Christopher TitusJune 9, 2016July 22, 2017

Life’s journey is like in jail At times, it seems you’re on hell Work as an elephant But feed as though a snail Know no but say no to its...

Month: June 2016

BRIGITTE POIRSON POETRY CONTEST 2016: FUTO POET, CHINAZOM OTUBELU, IS MAY WINNER

TRIBUTE TO STEPHEN KESHI by ‎King Mike John

I HAVE STOPPED WRITING by Samuel Amazing Ayoade

EXCUSE ME ‘POET’, ARE YOU A WORD-SMITH OR A WORD-SPIT?

LIFE IS A CROOK by Agbaakin O. Jeremiah

…THIS VAN by Mfon Udoudo

MARIA by Samuel Amazing Ayoade

BACK IN THIS PLACE by Samuel Amazing Ayoade

FATHERS OF INSANITY by Abdulbasit Abubakar Adamu

KNOW ‘NO’ by Christopher Titus

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