Paul Alowo Omoyele, your dark brows and lustrous eyesLeaves the sky teary Your lips are filament of scarletThe earth you tread is endowedWith pastoral eglantine Your beautiful smile lights up the dayLike the burning disk of noon Your nose – pretty pointed like Nefertitti’sRose high above like the spireOf Saint Louis Cathedral,Kissing the lips of […]
BankHALL The sojourn of lifeLong forlorn like the playgroup kiteFlown at will to and fro in sitesRough and stocked, yet painful spites. Joy and mourningOur irrevocable cross.., yet lost in this journey.Thick, dark tunnel, Oh! that this cloud turn sunny.That morning, when? when will you come in? Why not as rosy as his?Should these ills […]
Karimot Lagos is a whore,She is home to all and sundryEven the air she breathe reeksof congested kisses of different loversI heard she never sleeps,That her door is wide open day and nightStreaming of corporate workers and petty traders Lagos is a terrible lover,She screams at you at the oddest hour of the nightBegging you […]
Beloved Let the falling leaves tell the tales of dying branchesTo the growing shrubsLet it feed their plush greenWith a dose of its faded brown Let the setting sun tell the raging dayIt will never live to see the nightTell the moon if it should ever copulate with the sunit would birth but off-springs of […]
Olulu It’s GlassCan’t see itBut can feel itThe limitsThe restrictionsAnd the rejections.Can’t stop nowToo late to turn back nowToo far goneAnd don’t want a life of regrets. Its GlassIt talks and writesSometimes it says NOMost times it is… SilenceBut the silence hurts moreMakes me Brain fuzzyAnd Heart brokenBut still I riseCan’t stop nowGot a life […]
Omoyele (… HER POEM …) Sometimes I wonder where my sanity lies-Be it in the sanity of wild thoughts and liesor in sanitary towels of unconsciousnesswhere they’ve been moped dry. Sometimes I ponder on my sanity-What is sane in this lane of no puritywith masked dignity I tread in? Probability is the core of every […]
Linda Osuagwu Dressed in colorful attires, we beseech the house of GodTo sing a joyful halleluiah to the risen ChristAngels hurray, and the earth exaltThat lamb that was slain, today extolBirthed to die for the sake of allThrough his death, to war and save the worldAnd in his resurrection to be reborn in him Immanuel, […]
Enigmatic Olumide She’s got her brain in her armpitHer common sense on her high-heelBut he doesn’t careShe is the only woman he loves Her demeanor is demeaningShe slays like the deadly-queen, CleopatraBut that’s what he lovesA woman that will drive all men nuts Yesterday, they got marriedShe has removed her artificial lashesAnd now he seesShe […]