Another 12-Year old has just been laid to rest with his mother wailings as the day before yesterday, he laid on her chest,
SHE IS HOPE by Esther Kalu
She takes me through her world A description words fail to capture Bruised, battered By ugly circumstances She still stays stout She ensconces her pain In the most admirable smile....
BLAME IT ON THE MONEY by Emmiasky Ojex
Look at our daughters They now show no ill in laying with men old as their fathers Look at our sons Nothing is holding them back from scamming the green...
RED RIVER by Efe Ogufere
God, If thou be at all Be a blade Cut through it This cape of injustice Sober indifference Let it flow Blood- Trickle into the earth Threaten to form a...
LAMENTATION by Moses Oluwatobi Adebayo
Not the dead or lost, I revile That I lament and mourn sore; Neither regret him gone to exile, This sun I shall see no more; Do I cry for...
POET OF THE WEEK: RULES OF THE GAME by Alozor Michael Ikechukwu
One at a time is the step of life Take a leap when you get to a pit Else, down the pit you'll dive When you resurface your bearing is...
PAUSE AND THINK by Maxwell Onyemaechi Opia-Enwemuche
Pause and think How long shall we continue to slave? Where are the best brains that will help us and think? When are we going to seek light out of...
THE BEAUTIFUL ONES by Martins Tomisin
Roused in the heart of night I sit and stare Boiling in the rhythm of thought On this road, Life lost, Life saved, Beauty flies by and by Pain flies...
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...
ON WHAT THEY THINK El Sane Ken Silencer
They think I hate life- they think I love death unknown that I have lived died, wake and again decided... On how I lives. They think sour is sweet in...