Rachel Ige Too many movies, too many scenes,Too many things with love-full meanings,Have got a ring, he gave it to me,Have got love, the next to marry. Mama, don’t tell me love is not enough,We ll get through the storms, no matter how rough,We ll sail through the stairs through unblinking stares,The marriage is bound […]
James Jerome Okeme What a day my heart seek to behold!When dusk shall welcome dawnWith smile and a handshakeAnd the dark cloud shall step aside in peace.Then rays of hope be emittedFrom the sun strolling from the eastAccompanied with tweeting birdsWhispering to my ears ” Good Morning.”Oh! That glorious and chirpy dayWhen noon shall warmly […]
Dear Instagram generationFacebook neighbors from countless nationsWhose who speak in the voice of a twitting bird,Come and riddle me this Sing me a freedom songComposed without the bass linesOf sacrificed blood Find me a free lunchWithout the secret seasoningsOf hidden agendas Bring me a first fruit harvestWithout the fertilizationOf diligent bloody sweats Show me showers […]
Fr33zin Paul Welcome to this home of trafficwhere mobile queues of frustrated mindvent at one another.To your left and right,You see red eyes,The tension can be so high.Some drivers are like scavengerslooking for space to take over.As long as they have the skill to maneuver,They care less if they run a man over.This home of […]
Elemide Benjamin In the day,we journey into the sunto bathe our tomorrowin the rivers of colours. At night,sun journeys into usto be baptized in our dreamswhile we memorize script of death. We journey the path of timeas though we know the end,only to discover itis a beginning to another life. We become beggars,begging desert for […]
Tiwister I watched as the dry season, huggedthe rainy season goodbye.entering my dorm as my new Lord.though she wield a longer rod, yetmy sorrowful songs isn’t loud enoughto lure the distant ears of freedom Sunny days have failedto carve better lanes thangory gutters on my face. now,the moon is here; but my shattered pastseeks brighter […]
Kanyisola Olorunnisola Somewhere in Kano, a coven of alchemistsconverge for a witchery far beyond the reachof mortal men. They are guided by the night’sunwavering dark, like candles inside an ocean,they let their light dissolve into a liquidity whichwill haunt the world into submission. They areattempting the impossible – they are indeed bringingPangaea back. Millions of […]
Soul'e Rhymes I was a little chap without bread and brain,But I was not hungry for food,I wanted only wisdom,For only this will fill my bellyand bring me kingdom. I was starving, I was thirsty,I was left with nothing, but ungracious ragsfrom those merciful neighbors,Whose rags are better than mine,Yet I wanted neither food nor […]
Gbenga Sile When the dust settlesA sense of calm pervades the sceneReality stares at its creationAs the facade hides away in shame There’s nothing hidden under the sunSecrets may tarry for generationsSomeday however, Someday somehowThe blind eyes would see what they never saw The wind has blownThe fowl’s anus is exposedThe feathers could only cover […]
Ijalusi Samuel In the colony of deprived ignoranceBe twisted is the dance – dance to fallFlame of nourishing conquestBewildered to the overthrown capitalSacred shrines of the gods. The excruciating excursion of the weaver birdIs the exhilarating extinction of our inheritanceIn the name of the wayHaving hatching eggs laidAs harvest of new millennium, dancing to the […]