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DIALOGUE WITH BEDMATE, THE SKY — Oppong Clifford Benjamin

DIALOGUE WITH BEDMATE, THE SKY STREET BOY: Love your nightie So dark but brightening Designed with stars and moon Today we will sleep like loons THE SKY: Thanks dear, Saw you during the day Hauling distances with your drays Saw you thirsty, so I cried down tears Saw you burning, so I stopped the sun […]

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THE LAND CRIES — Justice Gift Jite-Eda

THE LAND CRIES Our land is a peasant woman coming home from the fields with a bundle on her head. Home? Where angry vultures wheel over the rooftop and threaten to lunge? The South grasses wet with dew and rains of those who’s lost their few. Sands of the North soaked in ink- -Life ink. […]

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WET FUTURE — Soul-o’man Drapman

WET FUTURE By the last jingle of the mourning bells by the first rap on hell’s gate … Will I, a man speak of my shame? Will I not my troubles wish to fade? As the stairs of heaven has no cascade, so has the tears of my fears dry out with age. Shall our […]

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When people speak from ‘behind’ — Kukogho Iruesiri Samson

When people speak from ‘behind’ When people speak from ‘behind’ Spraying foul winds around Give them a bit of your mind… See how fast they’ll turn around! First published on Facebook on 2013-10-08 at this link.

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CELEBRATION OF VANITY — Akinwunmi Gbenga Elijah

CELEBRATION OF VANITY Our mouths we desire to open wide In naked reflection of this day; Our hearts we long to bare, with nought to hide Through songs of passion, of soothing anthems Yet now our heads wander and wonder: What shall we sing? Of what should our voices ring? The jolly songs of ease […]

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HURT ME — Yomi Sani Ibrahim

HURT ME Knowing thee the huntsman that comes to claim my soul Love your favorite weapon Prey I became to thee My heart the target that’s left unguarded Trouble I seek not Only affection I aim at Bitter words I can’t spit at thee Tender is my heart at all moment Should I stop to […]

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MAPLESS TERRAIN — Kukogho Iruesiri Samson

MAPLESS TERRAIN We are in the middle of no place: Darkness. Hunger. Death. Lootings. Lost, our steps we can’t retrace! Didn’t the journey start with no map? We asked him to lead, that had no shoes. Now you all want to give him a slap! But is it enough to complain? Did we not freely […]

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Mountain-Tops are not reached by hoping — Kukogho Iruesiri Samson

Mountain-Tops are not reached by hoping Mountain-Tops are not reached by hoping But by grabbing a rope and climbing All else is just wishful thinking First published on Facebook on 2013-10-16 at this link.

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THE DARK-HORSE ADMINISTRATOR — Fred Oreva

THE DARK-HORSE ADMINISTRATOR Point of correction! Take the emendation And build a good reputation! I know you to be a diplomatic professor And not a wobbly political possessor. Should we regard you as a dark horse administrator? Your administrative ground makes us Overwhelmed and engulfed But the political aroma of power we aggressively sniffed. Credibility […]

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WHISPER A NOISE — Adeolu Adesanya

WHISPER A NOISE An earache within serenity Driving me wild to reconsider Earplug or get accustomed To the endless monotonous routine To listen, I need to lip read Sight seeing limited to split seconds Drives restricted by inner urge Such a voice, a whisper of noise A bee queen in an anthill No uphill tasks […]

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