Adewale Ajagbe I saw you todayTwisting your fine warm waistYou moved with so much calmAnd poise, making my eyes thePrisoners of your danceI was intoxicated with the graceyour curves the sweet symmetryof your ivory skin you fell in love with the rhythmsof the song, and plastered yourpresence in the midst of the rhymes you danced […]
McBenny Life is harder than I thoughtFetch me a seatThat I may tell you what I’ve seen. Life is harder than I thoughtGather the dwellers of this enclaveAnd I’d tell you the mysteries thereof. Life is harder than I thoughtFor it’s thorny fareChoking the sweetness thereof. Life is harder than I thoughtFor to the denizensIt’s […]
Arc Angel From my hotel window,I see yellow sun leap off golden rooftopsInto the heights above.Abuja’s reminder of the brevity of my existence.I see metal caress airAs defiant cars swoop past men in grandeur.Trees sway in the wind,Dancing to the heartbeat of the earth.This city on a hilltop tells its own story,Tales of capitalism, of […]
LKG Grandma,Forgive me that I can only express myself perfectly in English:But this is what I brought from that trip to the stream.The trip you consented toso we could have water available for use at homethe trip you warned me aboutsince I wasn’t the first to go on suchand my predecessors rather didn’t return fromordidn’t […]
Graciano Because we’ve drawn dividing rules onthe scrolls of righteousness,Insha Allah, I’m a Christian and thegods are my witness.So, “Allah Ak’bar in Jesus’ name”;Let’s keep meddling in this cheating game.Here, religion kills the fainting,While the culprit is relieved.Morals see the renting,While the hermit mourns more than the bereaved.If Jihad is a charading Teletubby,Why do we […]
Adedayo Agarau (for ibadan) we wait for the sun to crawl backinto the belly of pregnant cloudsso we’d wear an emblem of a citythat plants in our feet the urge to runand dream with our nostrils sniffling the tongueswaiting to wear a new language we all wait in this city, for motherswho break their dreams […]
Bliss I was the grassthat bore the bruntof duelsbetween two elephants I was ignoredand my dreamstrampled upon I believed in lies;my heart becamesynonymous with pain I was a joke,subject of no seriousness,equal to a custard pie I was abandonedand left to wither,but I thrived! My heads didn’t botherabout the bordersI burdened myself with But today […]
Akinbode Israel Downward leads to a stream,Happy pitchers on dry heads,Poking thirsty cheeks to smile,Every down leads well. A seed’s funeral,Killed by a so(u)n,Brings leaves- fresh harvest,Every down leads well. Now he runs,To walk, he once fell,Again and again,Every down leads well. A thrown lemon;To your thirsty face,From it make a lemonade,Kill that thirst. Again […]