Mesioye Johnson we startby molding the dustsleft in us into stonesand throwing it at nothinghoping it darts menin pinnacles of shredded shadowswho call men to glorywith melodiesfrom the cathedral of ghosts. there is a revival of assembled bedlamsfiling into bodies that now knowthat peace is a silent manhaving prayers in the throat of menwith supplications […]
Ijalusi Samuel Our fathers did eatKola nut and drank palm wineAs the light that beckonsGleamed from the shoulders of our visitorsWho rode in on caged drift,Whose words were persuasively poisonous,Whipping us with western ways. Our mother dwellsDwells in a sanatoriumAfter the theatrics intervalOf orchestrated lordsThe mist of this dawnIs yet to be brokenAs subvert mud. […]
Emmanuel Faith She’s strong but brittle;Weird a littleShe’s got her ups, her highs and peakBut her ‘low key’ could make you sickPlease, don’t on her faults dwellJust realize she is a girl She’s got her cramps and visitorsThat shrinks her like harsh creditorsShe groans and moans in heinous painThanks to this monthly vicious villainYet her […]
Kariuki Wa Nyamu Throw out the dirty laundryof silenceat incorrect supremacywithout any trace of shameand let the world seefor it has been a great whileliving a deadly lie of a century! Yes, throw out the dirty laundryof ignorance, poverty and diseaseand let the world over seethat we’ve successfully failedto win this warthat our late founding […]
Sam De Poet When the nail breaks the Camel’s back,What’s left?More heavy lifting? No I think not! When a goat gets pushed to the wall,What does it do?More running scared?From cowardly chases? No I think not? When the final nail gets hammered into the coffin,What happens?Lazarus rising from the dead?Or Joseph the carpenter unseating the […]
Gbenga Oni Suppose my clarion song soundBefore I was publishedI beseech thee allPray not to be; but did sleep after allNever let my rhymes go to wasteEven I as a graveyard wasteMy spirit to thee all it prayRemember my sweet songs where it layAnd bring my memoriesTo the day of the morrows.Death brings no pleasure […]
Oluwa Olamiposi Omoyele Diagnosis show leukaemia,Oops! That’s a killerHow long do I have?Or can I be cured? No, not a cureJust transfusionTo keep you going. O- is my blood groupSC my genotypeWho’ll be my donor?I don’t just know That’s a difficult one!There’s no match hereFind a donor please. Up the hillAnd down the valeO- SC […]
Tobi Abiodun As valiant men fall, fledging “the way”,With hearts whispering their souls to go.Some say die, some say stay;Let them now float towards that seeming glowor flit towards the brutish coming dayflitting towards the coming brutish day.Let us lay flowers silent,“No sigh-sounds nor tempest-tears”To pay the debt of depths from whence the whispers are […]
Ajise Vincent before men sat in bars filledwith images of bawdiness,ingesting tunes of hip-hop & pints of dusk. we & ourprogenitors — men whose bonesreeked of age & rust, would sit in cycles with the moonas a solicitor, conversing aboutthe dwindling dues of testaments it was then, our village chief,jaja, told us about the origin […]
Ayoola Goodyness Olanrewaju for you… i wanted to mouthon a fluteand lid her holes of tuneswith the letters of yourname… i wanted to write a songof easeon the lurking lonelinessin the brags of nights… i have just read how to makea flute-the book saysit is from a bone from my boneschiseled by the craft in […]