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 […]
Submitted poem Clouded Heart Poem by Ogunseye Abolanle · 2017 Ogunseye Abolanle My heart is clouded with fearWhich turn my moon darkWith corrosive malt dearAnd a deep gash mark Above the ground my sight I guideBefore my feet I swayLike the bell side by sideTo Fight my days and sort my way All the joy […]
Submitted poem Dawning Poem by Linda Osuagwu · 2017 Linda Osuagwu Dressed in colorful attires, we beseech the house of GodTo sing a joyful halleluiah to the risen ChristAngels hurray, and the earth exaltThat lamb that was slain, today extolBirthed to die for the sake of allThrough his death, to war and save the worldAnd […]
Submitted poem Cleopatra Poem by Enigmatic Olumide · 2017 Enigmatic Olumide She’s got her brain in her armpitHer common sense on her high-heelBut he doesn’t careShe is the only woman he loves Her demeanor is demeaningShe slays like the deadly-queen, CleopatraBut that’s what he lovesA woman that will drive all men nuts Yesterday, they got […]