LKG Grandma,Forgive me that I can only express myself perfectly in English:But this is what I brought from that trip to the stream.The trip you consented toso we could have water available for use at homethe trip you warned me aboutsince I wasn’t the first to go on suchand my predecessors rather didn’t return fromordidn’t […]
Graciano Because we’ve drawn dividing rules onthe scrolls of righteousness,Insha Allah, I’m a Christian and thegods are my witness.So, “Allah Ak’bar in Jesus’ name”;Let’s keep meddling in this cheating game.Here, religion kills the fainting,While the culprit is relieved.Morals see the renting,While the hermit mourns more than the bereaved.If Jihad is a charading Teletubby,Why do we […]
Adedayo Agarau (for ibadan) we wait for the sun to crawl backinto the belly of pregnant cloudsso we’d wear an emblem of a citythat plants in our feet the urge to runand dream with our nostrils sniffling the tongueswaiting to wear a new language we all wait in this city, for motherswho break their dreams […]
Bliss I was the grassthat bore the bruntof duelsbetween two elephants I was ignoredand my dreamstrampled upon I believed in lies;my heart becamesynonymous with pain I was a joke,subject of no seriousness,equal to a custard pie I was abandonedand left to wither,but I thrived! My heads didn’t botherabout the bordersI burdened myself with But today […]
Akinbode Israel Downward leads to a stream,Happy pitchers on dry heads,Poking thirsty cheeks to smile,Every down leads well. A seed’s funeral,Killed by a so(u)n,Brings leaves- fresh harvest,Every down leads well. Now he runs,To walk, he once fell,Again and again,Every down leads well. A thrown lemon;To your thirsty face,From it make a lemonade,Kill that thirst. Again […]
Paul Alowo Omoyele, your dark brows and lustrous eyesLeaves the sky teary Your lips are filament of scarletThe earth you tread is endowedWith pastoral eglantine Your beautiful smile lights up the dayLike the burning disk of noon Your nose – pretty pointed like Nefertitti’sRose high above like the spireOf Saint Louis Cathedral,Kissing the lips of […]
BankHALL The sojourn of lifeLong forlorn like the playgroup kiteFlown at will to and fro in sitesRough and stocked, yet painful spites. Joy and mourningOur irrevocable cross.., yet lost in this journey.Thick, dark tunnel, Oh! that this cloud turn sunny.That morning, when? when will you come in? Why not as rosy as his?Should these ills […]
Karimot Lagos is a whore,She is home to all and sundryEven the air she breathe reeksof congested kisses of different loversI heard she never sleeps,That her door is wide open day and nightStreaming of corporate workers and petty traders Lagos is a terrible lover,She screams at you at the oddest hour of the nightBegging you […]
Beloved Let the falling leaves tell the tales of dying branchesTo the growing shrubsLet it feed their plush greenWith a dose of its faded brown Let the setting sun tell the raging dayIt will never live to see the nightTell the moon if it should ever copulate with the sunit would birth but off-springs of […]