Foursyte Bogani Good morning this morning, here’s a cup of tea for you this morning,Wipe the sleep from your eyes, while you’re yawning.As a witness, to the works of Christ like Jehovah’s Witness,I’ve trailed the crest beneath the deepest,Hope your nightmares were the sweetest.Now we are neighbours to the moon and the star,we have come […]
Adedayo Agarau Water is the essenceor is it life that begins the sentenceof a moving man?we flow into places, our legs are small streams. healing comes with a picture, But when you are blind, it comes in lyrics.the last time I tried to neglect water, I was found floating in a dead room. the noise there was of markets, of confused […]
Alozor Michael Ikechukwu I need a little of your timeTo get some issues clear and straightI won’t be having much of youIt won’t be long and you’ll be gone! I hear you master is of hadesIn need of more bones for his flamesforcing you freely to operateAnd feed him with more blood harvest! Some say […]
Valentine Vabec Mbagu Proclaim ye this naked prophesies to the running pregnant seaThat Africa will be the historic eyes from which all nations will see,An Empire that will rise up to a fortified climax of supreme power;Tell it to nations that Africa will stand tall as a mighty rising tower. Though she rides through the […]
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 yearsand have refused to go homebecause home has now become our […]
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.. Love in smoke..A unified scene in peace..Passed it on to a […]
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 peace is a silent manhaving prayers in the throat of menwith supplications […]
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 mist of this dawnIs yet to be brokenAs subvert mud. […]
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 groans and moans in heinous painThanks to this monthly vicious villainYet her […]
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 over seethat we’ve successfully failedto win this warthat our late founding […]