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 into the coffin,What happens?Lazarus rising from the dead?Or Joseph the carpenter unseating the […]
Gbenga Oni 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 memoriesTo the day of the morrows.Death brings no pleasure […]
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 hereFind a donor please. Up the hillAnd down the valeO- SC […]
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 tempest-tears”To pay the debt of depths from whence the whispers are […]
Ajise Vincent before men sat in bars filledwith images of bawdiness,ingesting tunes of hip-hop & pints of dusk. we & ourprogenitors — men whose bonesreeked of age & rust, would sit in cycles with the moonas a solicitor, conversing aboutthe dwindling dues of testaments it was then, our village chief,jaja, told us about the origin […]
Ayoola Goodyness Olanrewaju for you… i wanted to mouthon a fluteand lid her holes of tuneswith the letters of yourname… i wanted to write a songof easeon the lurking lonelinessin the brags of nights… i have just read how to makea flute-the book saysit is from a bone from my boneschiseled by the craft in […]
Osigwe Benjamin It’s too obvious that our heartsWere made to be one.Children in the street, confess of our onenessAnd they wished to embrace us somedayWhile we walk. Counting our stepsYour arm well covered…Under the guidance of mine. I wonder why the world’s love clockStopped in my headAnd made me unable to think you outFrom the […]
Richard HighOnWord Abutu These are the things that we started with The things that make us succeed The hardship we face The glory we chase The happiness we trace We don’t want to be shamefaced. These are the things that drive us The pains of the past The promise of the future Our plans that are vast Our dreams beyond measure And the people that […]
Jerome Okeme Of the starving poorWith no strength to step outFrom those prisons of povertyAnd no energy to cry out“We are hungry”We are their voices . Of the aborted babiesFlused into the world of no returnWhere their destinies were not not given a second thoughtWe are their voices. Of those oppressed by opportunistsSuppressed by SadistsAnd […]