I AM NOT A POET by Tukur Ridwan Ishola
is it because i steal slates off tales scribbled by scribes of ages not stale which drew them to the world as sages; and i claimed what they owned only...
FOR HOW LONG? by Oki Kehinde Julius
stop! —i said stop cajoling our thirsty oesophagus, with cold water of economy 'recession'. for how long shall we wait at the temple of sea-sore? when our palm is deprived...
PRAGMATIC LOVE by Bamas Sinach VicToria
How can you tell me to marry for love When the pantry houses crickets and the chirpings decibels magnified by the hollow space With hungry mouths to feed and dying...
MISS ANNE THROPE by Aremu Adams Adebisi
She abhors 2face Idibia, And hates the role of Anita. She hates in shrieks and rolls in bed, And says, 'oh P-Square has not wed.' She sees Jonathan as a...
MY BLOOD WEEPS by Joseph Omojuwa
My blood sings, my blood weeps! For my countenance has fallen. A song no one can interpret, For if I hear, and then I am dead. My blood cries vengeance...
I WANT TO FLY by El Sane Ken Silencer
Endsville nature, the twinking of the sky sparkling, flippers in awe flipping... I want to fly, for my neck is tired of watching the sky and the awful cloud... I...
ÀWÈRÓ by Ololade Akinlabi
Awero, night before yesterday night Behind the bricks when all eyes Had lost there consciousness And that always smiling spherical shaped thing call the moon splashed light on you Acceleration...
POTENCY by Eziudo Michael Nwachukwu
If the word of God could put to play What was dead and down in clay If the word is here to stay To make aright a crooky day Shant...
IN YOUR EYES by Ijalusi Oluwatola Samuel
In Your Eyes (To Sarah) Sonorously sight seeing phooey world's bestialities as figures of ashes commerce day in night out of birth, rebirth and rebirth. Consignors of life in all...
LAMENTS FOR WASTED DAYS by Theophilus Femi Alawonde
I feel this agony in my soul, the pain for a long lost goal. When I think back, through the years, I cannot but let the free flow of tears....