Let me not wear father’s name On this muddy capes of injustice Now that I know why the rainbow Never speaks black On the great promise of greener pastures We left the silks of familiarity to grapple On the waters of a starved kaleidoscopic desert Little did we know that green grass breed greedy snakes […]
the dawn will arrive just a tide upon the thighs of starless darkness i will arise! reborn and dusted out of the ashes and echoes of nightmares that quelled kingdoms and froze giants i am a catastrophe upon the household of elitist miscreant I am Wrath Originally published on PoemHunter on 2 January 2018.
Love is more than the ridiculous and outrageous Valentine excesses Love is more than the constant plot of Bollywood movies Love is more than unstable human feelings Before love etered the imaginations of man Love was the song on replay in the eternal iPods of heaven Love was the hit song of redemption Crescendoing in […]
Tonight, in kallakulta The walls resound the powerful orations of afrobeat Along the forgotten corridors of time Hoping that they sip true the cracks of continuous reality Tonight in Nigeria; A middle aged man gets high On the afrodosiac nostalgia of his childhood As he sings and sways to the rhythm Tonight in Biafra; A […]
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 […]