IF by Thaalith Abubakar Gimba
If I am the indispensable dust, I'd throw up any lifeless flesh That gets interred inside me. If I am the unwavering wind, I'd cease my daily escapades, Probably retire...
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CHANGE THESE CHAINS by Victor Igiri)
Yesterday was Theirs they bemoaned Guma's...fall Today, ours we tell of Mbalom's... unripe pause; and Tomorrow, sure, shall be history's reawakening in Mama's four forks for ours is a land...
CHILDHOOD ROSES by Paul Chiwude
When we become old grannies and age disrupts our memories, Let us remember our napkins and where we began our stories. When we become youths and pushed by peers to...
THE CONCEPT OF GODHOOD IN POETS: HOW POETS BECOME GODS an essay by Aremu Adams Adebisi
There is something about poets that makes them gods. It is not the relativism of their works or their verisimilitude. It is not the aptitude of their word usage or...
REGRET by Olisaemeka Gerald Njoku
I was a happily married lady. I had the husband every woman prayed for. Mike (my husband) was of average height, dark, rich and so caring. He worked with the...
REVIEW: BRIGHT IGBINIGUN DISTINGUISHES HIMSELF IN ‘I MUST RETURN HOME’
TITLE: I MUST RETURN HOME AUTHOR: BRIGHT IGBINIGUN GENRE: POETRY NUMBER OF PAGES: 51 PUBLISHERS: CREATESPACE YEAR OF PUBLICATION: 2017 ISBN: NIL REVIEWER: OYINDAMOLA SHOOLA Writers bear a great responsibility...
A SLEEPER’S TESTAMENT by Oluwaseyi Olatunji
To have lived, laughed and loved, Dipped in life's lucky dip, Trusted the truth and in it's light have walked, Yet, had moments of savoury blip. To have tilled and...
BENEATH MY DREARY PAST by Thaalith Abubakar Gimba
I brawl, through space and time Of my amorphous mind, Against my own demons; My formidable alter egos. I took not absolute dominion, Over the realm of my mind. Apparently...
TWO-FACED “IGP” by Victor Igiri
doctored or un-doctored, black or white, he is only human for though the sun kings today, tomorrow shall be the moon's. lies or truths; we deserve some white words so...
REVIEW: PAMILERIN ‘GIVES A VOICE TO STRANGE THOUGHTS’ IN MEMOIR OF CRUSHED PETALS
TITLE: MEMOIR OF CRUSHED PETALS AUTHOR: PAMILERIN JACOB GENRE: POETRY NUMBER OF PAGES: 100 PUBLISHERS: WORDS RHYMES AND RHYTHM YEAR OF PUBLICATION: 2018 ISBN: 978-978-963-998-4 REVIEWER: Oyindamola Shoola Without doubt,...