ÓNÓGBÓ ÒBIÉBI by Okoro Yvonne
Mè é ónógbó òbiébi Òmègbé óvi é ásó. Èkwè gbè rèdè ewiè mè è unè érosé Kó ótó è riè. Àkpómè è èkakó ó ka kpènu Ò ka wiè bèdè...
THE DAY DIED by Chukwuemeke Bright
Dead was the day The trees solemn Folded green leaves Drained, monumental effigy Dead was the day The wind, passage denied Billowed hell, dead billowed here Stench fuggated the day...
CHANGE-AIR by Olanrewaju Tajudeen
How do we breathe? If the air is in conflict with our lungs; the wind, in conflict with our exhalation current; heart, in conflict with our reflex muscles veins, in...
NATIONAL PEOPLE by Isoboye Danagogo
Deity or the gods? Land or water? Medicine that cures no illness Is sugar too bitter on the tongue of kola-nut? Waist belted sitters Greed eat them pot belliously The...
BURNING CANDLES by Ogechukwu Emmanuel Samuel
The candles of your love Cannot be quenched, They burn brighter in my heart, I dream of you, I can't help myself. The moon cringes in shame At the brightness...
WORDS SAY NO MORE by Eziudo Michael Nwachukwu
I am here and there you are In gestures my hands stretched yet touch you not And loads are there to infer to you And I spoke mildly, noisily and...
BACK ON THE PITCH by Ogundairo Stephen Oluwaseyi
How long will it take my pen in recovery? To return back from injury, To give hope to it's fan, Lest, they grow weary and quench. The moon is full,...
REST IN PIECES (RIP) by Sunsampaul Egwu
R.I.P To those devilish sadist, Who've made evil their habits, Tormenting the innocents, Persecuting us in resilience, They're all bunch of aliens. R.I.P To all evil perpetrators, Who came as...
WHERE WAS FEMINISM? by Oloyede Joshua Adekunle
Where was feminism? When we were in school, Uncle Shola beat boys seven strokes And girls' bum-cheeks three Where was feminism? When father farms field Ada carried grains Her twin,Arize,loaded...
PSITTACISME by Joseph Omojuwa
Life, Vanity upon vanity! Counting countless countable, Of memories memorized for memories Bathing bateless battle, Of agonies, agonized from agony Deepening dripless depth, Of sanity, sanitized for sanctity Patching pathless...