A KOBO FOR YOUR THOUGHTS by Hannatu Adamu
I’ve often wondered Looking at you What goes on in your pretty little head I’ve often caught you Singing to yourself Why are your songs only for you? I’ve thought...
WAR by Ganiyu Mohi Adedare
Red-Rider Who again is soaring the walls of war after the death of soldiers? Who will show us how swords and guns turned the dusk to nightly behavior and erased...
DIARY OF A SOLDIER AT WAR by Kujembola Oluwaseun
Yesterday, we remembered the victors and conquerors; Today, we remember the vanquished and conquered. Yesterday, we danced in the rain; Today, we embrace the cold. Yesterday, our echoes were of...
WINDS, WILD AND WHIRL by Dominic Ayegba Okoliko
Let winds be wild and whirl blowing from the far west caress me to wild and send my worries to rest Let it blow me like a balloon to beyond...
UTOPIAN SYMPHONY by Yugo Gabriel Egboluche
Open your mouths let your tongues taste the morning dew’s, farm fresh from heaven’s dock let it kiss your lips with its misty chill, so your charred rims would come...
ON BENDED KNEES by Stanley Egeonu
When your strength is exhausted And your spirit is strapped of vigour… When you can no longer stand the 'shaking' And the horrors of life cause you to suffer bruxism…...
ONE WEDNESDAY EVENING by Olawale Ibiyemi
the preacher spat into our ears his very Truth Now our ears sting, stink my ears sting; He has started a riot of tongues of tongues and has killed the...
DOZING BOY by Theophilus Femi Alawonde
In various angles – dozing boy looks for ease. [caption id="attachment_22961" align="aligncenter" width="1064"] DOZING BOY by Theophilus Femi Alawonde[/caption]
THE BEST OF REST by Martins Tomisin
The hurly – burly wind That passed by yesterday Is down the drain In nothing flat, A new stripe of book will flicker Like a virginal carbon-paper Awaiting to be...
THIRD WORLD WAR by Gideon Abowha
*Third World War* _Guun!_ _Guun!_ _Guun!_ _Lash!_ _Lash!_ _Lash!_ Children cry Militias smile Paying price Human flesh torn; lost souls Helter skelter we went. _Whuuh!_ _Whuuh!_ _Yeeh!_ _Yeeh!_ Women screamed...