PROBABILITY (1st Prize) We are the two sides of a coin but unsure of the side that grits the ground in music brewed with morrows. This city is a dice and we are people of shades like a dice too. We are life, and life is a dice, so...
In Memory of Christopher Okigbo Do you recall Unspeakable episodes Of many drooling memories This nation nested in her bosom How this country murdered The fraternity of people bound by nation? Do you recall The fallen anti-hero, Whose valour clung desperately To the rope of hope, Who forsook his pen...
Drink! Drink of the bridal juice That soothes the thirst of bachelorhood Sway! To the drumbeat of matrimony, To the dynamics of love That angels will never know… Put on the ‘natif’ of fatherhood And brace the tree of family… for Age tastes better with a good wife The favor...
Beneath your skin, Dark and lovely connubial vials Hold ancient songs buried in liquid deep A serenade in the Serengeti A sunrise on distant hills Shedding light on black and white A myriad of hopes drown in murky waters As my soul holds yours against the tides We are the...
The night steals a march on my soul Such visions but uncommon for a blind man mocked by nature for his inadequacy The stars keep me company in this painful epiphany eternal darkness as my aid stick a companion come rain come shine How does it feel to be loved?
The world is a number to me, I see nothing in the ground except sand, when i look up, I see only the cloud- The sky… When the young die they ask ‘how old is he? married or single?’ when the old too same query to you ‘what did he...
Darker more to the darkest of what we know dark the world is beautiful. It always shine like the chameleon that takes the beautiful colour to all eyes the world is beautiful. Shinning, like a gold that does not rust blowing some to whirl like no one turns yellow the...
Tribute to late Adekunle Fajuyi How should we keep from singing! The praise of our hero past He, for us did the dying, That on us, fingers may not cast. Very few, fewy few, Could be like the son of man, F.A.F did what most can’t do, He is a...
Roused in the heart of night I sit and stare Boiling in the rhythm of thought On this road, Life lost, Life saved, Beauty flies by and by Pain flies by and by Hope dashed against stones Story meshed upon stories Beforehand, They pop up like a RAVEN That fed...
The moment you walked through, I saw a broken soul like a smashed fruit. Pain took you straight to the bed side, Were you devoured her pictures sitting on the wall side. You sobbed your soul from the inside out, Like a beating child hindered a cry. I remember asking...
