Adeola Adegoke This life has got my thought by its tip,It’s like a stained glass shinningor teeth, colored and not smelling.This life in itself fathers my deeds;I plant every night, swollen seedsacross the pulpit of my lover.I touch her like no other day will come,In turn, she moan like the creak of door.Come by day […]
Sissy Standing in front of the mirror,There is just one figure,You, yourself, your reflection. You look like you,There is no such thing as doppelgangers,even if you are a twin to another,You are you. So it’s your lifeFigures when you dieIt will be you laid to the ground,not your son, daughter, mother, father nor wife . […]
Beatitude And the sea eats our landLeaving alone the dry shore sandFor they came with kleptomaniac hand,And got hold of things in their hand,For the sea eats our land. When the sea was eating our land,We were afraid to raise our hand,As it will make us run only errand,Errand not pleasing, but white men errand,For […]
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 nibMinding not the fellowsWith constant pacing, keeping weariness asidePlus a tremendous velocity, despite […]
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 selvesin questionable monuments in abuja, bourdillonor such other edifices of shame […]
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 yearning into yesterday. and by dawnreturn rolling down the sun. i must […]
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 remain act like you really careI keep mute because […]
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 turned yamhaving collected ten nairafrom that passerby. I have always […]
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, enslaved me.And gradually killed the sexual Samson God made me. […]
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 eyes heavy with rounds of tears.But soon his yellow mucusFlows gradually to his […]