Submitted poem This Life This Race Poem by Kigbu Ovey Salms · 2017 Kigbu Ovey Salms On your Mark, Get Set, Bang!The sound you hear that springs athlete like the hareMustering all strength within, a great will to winFocusing only on one thing, a perfect finishingMaintaining the lane, refusing to trailPropelling the limbs, driving the […]
Submitted poem Victims Of Fate Poem by Adefolami Ademola · 2017 Adefolami Ademola we didn’t ask to tread onthe gold-plated roads inyour fruity island of banananeither did we beg to be chauffeuredin fast-moving wonder on wheelswe never requested to wieldthe exponential grace of‘legislooters’ in the house of stupiditywe do not crave to house our undignified […]
Submitted poem If By Tomorrow Poem by Ayoola Goodness Olanrewaju · 2017 Ayoola Goodness Olanrewaju so if by tomorrow you do not find mehere. do not start sudden solos. sobs. or sighs strung for exiled sons. do not my name squeezeinto the sympathy of subtle snakes. or vain seekers. i must have gone yes and […]
Submitted poem Maybe Poem by Kalejaye Folajimi · 2017 Kalejaye Folajimi I speak my heart to the windsto carry my agonizing messageto the ears of none but onehas the wind betrayed me? I am HIV positiveso text me sympathieslie to metell me nothing has changed and nothing willtell me we are friends and we will […]
Submitted poem Broken Lens Poem by Yusuf Olanrewaju · 2017 Yusuf Olanrewaju And through this car side mirrorsomething revealed my childhood,how stream flowed down my facefrom mum’s seven lashesfor begging candy from my peers. I heard the reverberation of the thunderstormfrom dad’s slap, formonetary gift from a stranger.I was scared again abouta child rumoredto have […]
Submitted poem Slanderous Friend Poem by Saviour Upaski · 2017 Saviour Upaski You made me think it is impossible to leave you;And made me believe you are a nessesary evil.It was you who gave me a mixed feeling to tell;A feeling delight as heaven, yet, agonizing as hell.It was you, who for all these years, […]
Submitted poem Life In This Place Poem by Adewumi Benedict Olumide · 2017 Adewumi Benedict Olumide Life in this place is a weeping child,Hungry for food in a diamond bowlCrying to drink from a golden cup,But the diamond plate is a dry landAnd the cup an empty pitWhen the child sees the deceptionHe cries aloud,With […]
Submitted poem Let’s Recreate Poem by Nnaemeka Seth · 2017 Nnaemeka Seth Let’s recreateThose childhood images;Innocence in dispute,All we seek is peace.Boy hugs girl; publiclyAdults look on and smile. Let’s recreateThose childhood memories;Jealousy is sincere. No hate.When you look unto your peers,Because you want to be part of the play. Let’s recreateThose childhood dreams;Living the […]
Submitted poem The Night Shall Come Poem by Enitan Ogunsanya · 2017 Enitan Ogunsanya I.The night shall comewhen we will no longer chorussongs that sorrows composed and taught usto sing with our rhythmic lipsbroken, chattered as we behold our fate in a stricken glassstaring to be justified, buried and alive in torments. II.The night shall […]
Submitted poem Sundays And Sun-Days Poem by Sam De Poet · 2017 Sam De Poet You look pretty good on Sundays,Like pretty sister Nancy,Always catching our fancy.We looking down on you from high heels,And you? Our admirations you feed. You look pretty good on Sun-Days,Like smoking Sissy Nancy,Always catching our fancy.Shining, glowing, beaming your rays,arrays […]