Submitted poem TATTERED HOPE Poem by Alozor Michael Ikechukwu · 2026 T ommorow talks tough A sking all already answered T ackling today’s threshold T hrough time’s turf E voking equable emotions R oundly rocking retentions E verlastingly entrapped D uring dreams in devastation draped; H elplessly hiding O doriferous oddities P ushing perplexities past […]
Submitted poem HEAVEN’S QUATRAINS Poem by Kukogho Iruesiri Samson · 2026 HEAVEN’S QUATRAINS Shall you too dump his grace and flee, And be ungrateful as the wretched flea? Or shall you now take up his plough And follow in faith, long as breath’ll allow? … Turn away from sin, let your heart not falter For […]
Submitted poem Airenovboise Poem by Adedayo Agarau · 2026 Airenovboise (goddess of love). tonight too, seems foggy with hatred and remains of yesterday’s blood. what shall we do when the goddess cease to hear the cries of corpsed glories voicing pains in the silented room. we call you, Airenovoboise, hear while we cuddle your name […]
Submitted poem HOLY–HOLY Poem by Nwakanma Chika · 2026 Pastor, You mesmerized us with talks of greener pastures, Gold paved streets and treasure-filled mansions In a place, beyond the skies above us. But you own a Lexus and a Rolls Royce Phantom; Your daughter just turned 18, so you bought her a RAV4, Yet 3 […]
Submitted poem MENTAL FREEDOM Poem by SIMTHEMBILE MAQONDA-SonOfTheSoil ZINGELWA · 2026 Who are we today? Who are we today to call Africans foreigners in a land of the San peole We are all immigrants in this land of the San Like the Rolling Stones we keep saying everywhere we lay our heads that’s our home […]
Submitted poem ELEGY TO A BELOVED Poem by Nwaokoro Kingsley · 2026 Lioness you were, when the leopards raged Thrusting your love – no will to be revenged Bare-chested, you took the bullets of beasts You conquered, went down with unshaken fists… Infant, yet a conscript in kindred war Gender constrained but with courage you […]
Submitted poem Love.. Poem by Olusola Kuti · 2026 Love.. my heart fluttered like a dove Webs of feelings in my heart wove. Love is pain..pain of love My heart cries for more My mind,indignantly swore "No more"it said Forgive me,at romance I’m poor I loved and loved, groveling at the floor Now I have […]