Osigwe Benjamin It’s too obvious that our heartsWere made to be one.Children in the street, confess of our onenessAnd they wished to embrace us somedayWhile we walk. Counting our stepsYour arm well covered…Under the guidance of mine. I wonder why the world’s love clockStopped in my headAnd made me unable to think you outFrom the […]
Richard HighOnWord Abutu These are the things that we started with The things that make us succeed The hardship we face The glory we chase The happiness we trace We don’t want to be shamefaced. These are the things that drive us The pains of the past The promise of the future Our plans that are vast Our dreams beyond measure And the people that […]
Jerome Okeme Of the starving poorWith no strength to step outFrom those prisons of povertyAnd no energy to cry out“We are hungry”We are their voices . Of the aborted babiesFlused into the world of no returnWhere their destinies were not not given a second thoughtWe are their voices. Of those oppressed by opportunistsSuppressed by SadistsAnd […]
Abegunde Sunday These zephyrs of thoughts my muse blowsas poesy flows, to seas of souls,to splash fluids of reminiscenceon fiery hearts and fighting hands. Gone black heroes had worked for peaceand had gone through tough odysseys,to bring black soil tranquillityand entombed corpse of enmity. Won’t disunity now exhumebenumbed enmity from that tomband make dispute breastfeed […]
Akinbode Israel Life is best at night, Lights peeking through the sky, Fireflies dancing around displaying beauties, The dust sleeping on her sandy bed, An empty path of dead footprints, Murmuring wind speaking to himself, Caging every air into refrigerated boxes, In the absence of no one, Heartbeats clearly heard. Life is best at night, […]
Adewale Ajagbe I felt the clouds Gathering beneath My sentimental scrotum And I knew I would soon come It built up steadily like the birth Of a new day There was chaos under my skin As veins and capillaries transported liquids like fulani men Transporting nama on the eve of eid’l kabir I felt its […]
Adesina Aanuoluwapo I stare lovingly at her eyebrows, arching downwards like a spear, deep into my skin it ploughs, And from that wound comes a tear. I lose myself in her eyes like an abyss, leaving the light of loneliness above, her smile provides a sweet sour bliss, falling deeper and deeper in love. I […]