ECHANTED by Michael Inioluwa Oladele
We heard the whispering song, Together with the beating gong. Its sound echoed through the reed The reed of an opening woodwind. In the greyness of isolated time The echo...
MYSTERY by Uchenna Odukwu
Staring at the sky above As soft as the shadows I wonder if there is a place above Containing millions of souls, And a person greater And older than the...
A POT OF HAPPY STEW by Kukogho Iruesiri Samson
[caption id="attachment_19549" align="aligncenter" width="1200"] A POT OF HAPPY STEW by Kukogho Iruesiri Samson[/caption] Read text of poem here: 'A POT OF HAPPY STEW'
BE THE CHANGE by Sule T. Joshua
[caption id="attachment_19532" align="aligncenter" width="1000"] BE THE CHANGE by Sule T. Joshua[/caption] If you want to build a new generation be built if you want to fix things be fixed whatever...
JUST SHOW ME by Isoboye Danagogo
Don't point at him; Just show me him! How much of a perfectionist he is; Whom by his virtue, mistakes sit so defined, the elusiveness of human frailty. Whose fingers...
MASK by Olanrewaju Tajudeen
Time masked by age; plastered over our faces like different colours of different daisy- days- painted, over our living walls, after every season- as different crimes committed to cover existence-...
A ROOM WITH A CREAKING DOOR by Adedayo Adeyemi Agarau
(For Pa Salami) What do you see in your sleep? Layout of your very room barfed with dusts, Sickening smell and a metropolis of cobwebs, Then a voice standing like...
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...
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...