FANATIC EXPLOSION by Joshua Omena
As the day sets The world is moving fast The evening race starts Tired feet and clustered streets Men as ants in traffic trails Running to their homely holes The...
ABIKU by Abdulsalam Jamiu B
You abiku ! Why do you come and go? Go! And bother no more my soul. Your ghost was here, Before I could pen your image, You blow off my...
SOLDIERS OF THE STREET by Ebuka Wiz Godwin
These barracks don’t favor civilians It’s for the un-blooded We don’t remember our mortality off-hand So we face guns and bombs empty handed The armory is our heart And the...
CARRION FOR THE GODS 1: THE SACRIFICE by Adeosun Oluwapelumi
Drumbeats, The voice of the silent gods. Papa is still without, digging trenches And mama fried akara balls At the village outskirt. The insistent pounding of the drum Caused my...
A NEW DIVIDE by Efe Ogufere
If i use filter on my broken heart Would you double click it on Instagram? Who replaced affections with emojis? Just let it go and hold on tight, she said....
CORRUPTION by Ezeokoye Vanessa Onyinye
When did you go? When are you coming again? They have swindled us from our accretion, And battered us with their Ponzi schemes. Perjury is now a child's play, Backsheesh...
TIME by Akintunde Daniel
Time evolved and somehow things evolve Time is a woman and is like a two-sided coin She spins with speed and it pays, but sometimes You groan cos of your...
ABORTION by Cletus Nnaemeka
Swimming within its little world Surviving on the receiving end of a precious cord. Making motion and probably not mentioning a word. Living everyday to maturity. Step by step developing...
HURDLES by Ezeokoye Vanessa Onyinye
Take a bow or dab.. The scrutiny of life seems bad Intertwined in webs of no choices Cornered with men of no faces. Life coruscates darkly With smeared feaces on...
THE NEW GOD by Ndukwo Kalu Ugah
We found a new God Who runs in another blood Clear as dark in his veins And limps as planes In his wandering flight Without stars for sight. In his...