Submitted poem Allah Akbar In Jesus’ Name Poem by Graciano · 2017 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 […]
Submitted poem Bearing A City On My Skin Poem by Adedayo Agarau · 2017 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 […]
Submitted poem Untitled Poem by Bliss · 2017 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 […]
Submitted poem No Matter What Poem by Akinbode Israel · 2017 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 […]
Submitted poem Pulchritudinous Poem by Paul Alowo · 2017 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 […]
Submitted poem Destiny Poem by BankHALL · 2017 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? […]
Submitted poem Lagos Poem by Karimot · 2017 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 […]
Submitted poem Words Poem by Beloved · 2017 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 […]
Submitted poem It’s Glass Poem by Olulu · 2017 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 […]
Submitted poem Sometimes, I Wonder Poem by Omoyele · 2017 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 […]