Oluwatosin Olabode You can have a heart that forgivesBut to do this, you will need:A person that has offended youA willing spiritA heart wanting to be freed from painAnd you, a person that knows we are all but humans You can become deaf to the evil desires of this world,The lust of the eyes,The lust […]
Paul Alowo Tonight tonight, you are my cherry,and I your raspberry. you are my beauteous moon tonight,glorified with shining of slivery bright. tonight, you are my bride,I will lay you down on the bed of life,browse your garden to gather petals without blight,and compare your love not with wine. tonight, poetry is mine,she illuminate my […]
Chika Jones Does death come in seasons?Like the broken needles,On the tongues of winded dragons?Like the red of flowers in harmattan,Or does it come through the hole of scarabs,When brave young girls venture alone into the forests,And emerge with painted hands,I remember the lives of dead ones,Like a kaleidoscope of ever changing sounds,The baby’s first […]
Damilola Ojo Their eyes sparkle, gleaming at the possibilities of achievement, bodily perversion contravening the law of nature, the pulchritude of its eventuality glows in the minds of its initiators. ‘Soul nature differs from physical appearance’ The message of this deviance gradually pierces our conservative tradition, robbing our memory of its innocence, creeping into our […]
When dreams are becoming illusionYou can’t make out between visionOr delusion and your goals and dreamsSeem to be flying away on light beams When life’s silence grows louderAnd it seems the end is nearWhen stormy forces grow strongerAnd all our hopes are ‘strained by fear When darkness shines the blackestWhen life’s storm hits the hardestAnd […]
He rules us – a fiery beast Supreme! Unquestionable fist He says he knows what’s best for all Through winter, summer, spring and fall To him we’re enslaved appliances To rule and stomp to compliance Our welfare his least agenda For his, we must run helter, skelter His broad shoulder is no shelter They do […]
INVITATION come into my parlour,said the spiderto the fly;never mind the cobwebs,just come in and don’tbe shy;find a wealth of gourmetto suit your palate’schoice;let not my smile deter youor the silence of the noiseface it —this is heaven,leave the air’s thick fog,and rest;enter my conditioned netto bask indelicatessecome into my parlour,said the spiderto the fly;I […]