Submitted poem Of A Road I Know Poem by Ololade Akinlabi · 2018 Ololade Akinlabi Of a road I know,Where poverty breeds richness,‘Baba rere, baba ke…’Trample over me and take the right of easement. Of a road I know,Where people laugh out their Cries.Attempt to kill oneself is a suicide,Having a helping hand is a […]
Submitted poem Where We Met Poem by HighOnWord · 2018 HighOnWord We met at a placeThat was to be a crossroadWhere men meet, greet and wavehoping to meet again,Maybe once, maybe twice a lifetime.We met there and stopped there.We laughed; we fought, fought andlaughed, butcould not go beyond.I looked back and returnedShe did the same […]
Submitted poem Vicious Circle Poem by Ijaiya Tahir · 2018 Ijaiya Tahir Hopefully, I will overcomeShamefully, I never doLike a song on replayI expected a familiar stimulusBut my solution wasmy problemIt goes on and on Trapped in endless timeI don’t mean life itselfBut the stimuli-response phenomenonI always come back for rematchA match I will definitely […]
Submitted poem Stars Poem by Enigmatic Olumide · 2018 Enigmatic Olumide Stardom is like an addiction to hard drugsIt’s the reason for our ailmentYet the high dose that aids our healing It’s the reason we wake every morningCraving for attentionThe search for relevance But irrelevances drove us hereLike chasing the wind, we catch nothingCheers when […]
Submitted poem Maths Poem by Adeola Adegoke · 2017 Adeola Adegoke This life has got my thought by its tip,It’s like a stained glass shinningor teeth, colored and not smelling.This life in itself fathers my deeds;I plant every night, swollen seedsacross the pulpit of my lover.I touch her like no other day will come,In turn, […]
Submitted poem It’s Your Life Poem by Sissy · 2017 Sissy Standing in front of the mirror,There is just one figure,You, yourself, your reflection. You look like you,There is no such thing as doppelgangers,even if you are a twin to another,You are you. So it’s your lifeFigures when you dieIt will be you laid to […]
Submitted poem The Land Died Poem by Beatitude · 2017 Beatitude And the sea eats our landLeaving alone the dry shore sandFor they came with kleptomaniac hand,And got hold of things in their hand,For the sea eats our land. When the sea was eating our land,We were afraid to raise our hand,As it will make […]
Submitted poem This Life This Race Poem by Kigbu Ovey Salms · 2017 Kigbu Ovey Salms On your Mark, Get Set, Bang!The sound you hear that springs athlete like the hareMustering all strength within, a great will to winFocusing only on one thing, a perfect finishingMaintaining the lane, refusing to trailPropelling the limbs, driving the […]
Submitted poem Victims Of Fate Poem by Adefolami Ademola · 2017 Adefolami Ademola we didn’t ask to tread onthe gold-plated roads inyour fruity island of banananeither did we beg to be chauffeuredin fast-moving wonder on wheelswe never requested to wieldthe exponential grace of‘legislooters’ in the house of stupiditywe do not crave to house our undignified […]