Submitted poem What We Are Poem by Chibuihe-Light Obi · 2016 Chibuihe-Light Obi We are one percent of waterone percent of beer or barley or blood (any could come first)one percent of plant: twisted fibre or grass blades or geranium pulled out of flower potsthe rest are ghosts that have walked with us all these […]
Submitted poem Inner Sanctum Poem by Orowale Samuel Kolapo · 2016 Orowale Samuel Kolapo Like a snake strolling to citadel…With visible curly moves…It fills my nostrils…Inhaling the best of scents.. The first puff hits my chest hard…With a deep breath in between..I cough out the last of my worries..And shed a single tear in comfort.. […]
Submitted poem Staying in the Wind Poem by Mesioye Johnson · 2016 Mesioye Johnson we startby molding the dustsleft in us into stonesand throwing it at nothinghoping it darts menin pinnacles of shredded shadowswho call men to glorywith melodiesfrom the cathedral of ghosts. there is a revival of assembled bedlamsfiling into bodies that now knowthat […]
Submitted poem Prelude Tales Poem by Ijalusi Samuel · 2016 Ijalusi Samuel Our fathers did eatKola nut and drank palm wineAs the light that beckonsGleamed from the shoulders of our visitorsWho rode in on caged drift,Whose words were persuasively poisonous,Whipping us with western ways. Our mother dwellsDwells in a sanatoriumAfter the theatrics intervalOf orchestrated lordsThe […]
Submitted poem She’s Just a Girl Poem by Emmanuel Faith · 2016 Emmanuel Faith She’s strong but brittle;Weird a littleShe’s got her ups, her highs and peakBut her ‘low key’ could make you sickPlease, don’t on her faults dwellJust realize she is a girl She’s got her cramps and visitorsThat shrinks her like harsh creditorsShe […]
Submitted poem Dirty Laundry Poem by Kariuki Wa Nyamu · 2016 Kariuki Wa Nyamu Throw out the dirty laundryof silenceat incorrect supremacywithout any trace of shameand let the world seefor it has been a great whileliving a deadly lie of a century! Yes, throw out the dirty laundryof ignorance, poverty and diseaseand let the world […]
Submitted poem No, I Think Not Poem by Sam De Poet · 2016 Sam De Poet When the nail breaks the Camel’s back,What’s left?More heavy lifting? No I think not! When a goat gets pushed to the wall,What does it do?More running scared?From cowardly chases? No I think not? When the final nail gets hammered […]
Submitted poem A Poet’s Valediction Poem by Gbenga Oni · 2016 Suppose my clarion song soundBefore I was publishedI beseech thee allPray not to be; but did sleep after allNever let my rhymes go to wasteEven I as a graveyard wasteMy spirit to thee all it prayRemember my sweet songs where it layAnd bring my […]
Submitted poem Blood Donor Poem by Oluwa Olamiposi Omoyele · 2016 Oluwa Olamiposi Omoyele Diagnosis show leukaemia,Oops! That’s a killerHow long do I have?Or can I be cured? No, not a cureJust transfusionTo keep you going. O- is my blood groupSC my genotypeWho’ll be my donor?I don’t just know That’s a difficult one!There’s no match […]
Submitted poem The Forgotten War Poem by Tobi Abiodun · 2016 Tobi Abiodun As valiant men fall, fledging “the way”,With hearts whispering their souls to go.Some say die, some say stay;Let them now float towards that seeming glowor flit towards the brutish coming dayflitting towards the coming brutish day.Let us lay flowers silent,“No sigh-sounds nor […]