Submitted poem Sight Restored Poem by Osigwe Benjamin · 2016 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 […]
Submitted poem Life Drivers Poem by Richard HighOnWord Abutu · 2016 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 […]
Submitted poem We Are Their Voices Poem by Jerome Okeme · 2016 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 […]
Submitted poem Unite, African Entities Poem by Abegunde Sunday · 2016 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. […]
Submitted poem Life At Night Poem by Akinbode Israel · 2016 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 […]
Submitted poem Mother Earth Poem by Doyin Olaleye · 2016 Doyin Olaleye Mother Earth; mourn Humanity; weep Divinity; Grieve For your inhabitants have gone berserk Normalcy has gone haywire Insurgency eats deep like disease Rod of iniquity stirs nature’s wrath On the streets, human flesh are roasted whole Can’t you perceive, it sizzles like fat Her beloved butchered Her esteemed murdered Massacred without crime Yet, citizens looked once Oblivion to what’s […]
Submitted poem Ejaculation Poem by Adewale Ajagbe · 2016 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 […]
Submitted poem Lady Of The Cup Poem by Adesina Aanuoluwapo · 2016 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 […]