BENEATH A MILLION ROSES OF PAIN by Oyelami Yetunde Elizabeth
Beneath a million rose of pain I'll find solace in our joy's gain I know my feelings cannot be vain I'll let my soul be uprightly sane So as not...
SCARS by Mayor Jake
My heart is pegged with scars. Each scar, telling different tales. Beautifully bitter scars looking like gars That are made to live within the dales. I don't want to tell...
A LONG NIGHT by Saidu Mark Jatau
The moment you walked through, I saw a broken soul like a smashed fruit. Pain took you straight to the bed side, Were you devoured her pictures sitting on the...
UNCEASING RAIN by Amao Williams Praise
Inscriptions of loss dwell in my punctured heart, Inconsolably my tears fall. Who will answer my crumbled call? Inscriptions of loss; written on my broken heart. The tears of the...
BROKEN PROMISES by Amao Williams Praise
Hopping, walking on broken promises; Stale promises flew helplessly in the air. Diving, swimming in a bloody ocean; Stabbed with a 'daguar' of envy and jealousy. Running, jogging on the...
DEATH, WHY? by Theophilus Femi Alawonde
for the young ones who have died before their time (Alawonde Lois. I., Dare Sax, Ayantoye Ayantosho and others) Why do you lay your cold fingers, on the ones who...
LIFE IS A CROOK by Agbaakin O. Jeremiah
Life is a crook and though you pour him drinks and fill his bed with feathers and whores. It’s the uneven face of the sky it’s cloudy in Pompei as...
A MAN AND HIMSELF by Kukogho Iruesiri Samson
if a man should go out looking for himself would he search inside the kitchen shelf inside a frothy bottle robbed of its waters or in the pockets of his...
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...
ONE DAY… by Akinbode Oluwatobi Israel
I sit on this sick chair, Rolling dice upside down, Calculating disfigured figures, The answers, a sticky solution. The pin that pierced my sole, Made my hope to hop, Only...