JUST ME ALONE!
[caption id="attachment_817" align="aligncenter" width="238"] Just Me Alone[/caption] Its innocent me alone That's left to atone For the deed of ancestors – Long lost in earths stores. I'm left to right...
WE WEAVE MAT (by Nwilo Bura-Bari Vincent “Salute to Bori 2012)
[caption id="attachment_812" align="aligncenter" width="211"] Salute To Bori[/caption] This is one poem selected from Nwilo Bura-Bari Vincent “Salute to Bori" just published. We weave mat While their men weave war songs We...
INSECURITY (BY Nwakanma Chika)
[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="206"] Insecure[/caption] Insecurity – acidic and corrosive. Be generous, and the one wearing that garb Will think you a harbour of ulterior motives. Entrust such with little...
POETRY Vs. SOCIETY (an invocation by Kabir Ademoh)
[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="191"] Poetry Vs Society[/caption] Can A poet light up a stage With words as firmaments, from the thoughtful page? Fork lightening in the captor's cage,/ As he...
DROUGHT IN AFRICA (an earth poem by Moses Opara)
[caption id="attachment_786" align="aligncenter" width="275"] Drought In Africa[/caption] The smiling sky is afraid to rain upon the earth. And the sun is too shy to shine it's teeth upon us. Our...
THE DEVIL’S PAWN (Excerpts 2)
I. WHAT SEEK YE? What seek you in the devil’s lair? For they return not that come here! They breathe not again, my dear; Those that sniffed its foul smelling...
BRILLIANT DARKNESS (by Fr. Albert Jungers)
[caption id="attachment_774" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Brilliant Darkness[/caption] In the Congo where titanium reigns Tears fall like blood upon the ground. Women pay a heavy price For metal so light beneath them...
POETRY (by Kannadasa Dasan)
[caption id="attachment_769" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Poetry is not..[/caption] What is ancient medieval And modern poetry? Poetry is not a period! Poetry is above the period! What is sonnet rhyme And Haiku...
COMEUPPANCE (by Osagie Fervency)
[caption id="attachment_765" align="aligncenter" width="217"] Comeuppance[/caption] 'Fear of cultists' is the beginning of wisdom: For there can be no gamble with life so fragile. Schools of learning harbor these children of...
SUSTENANCE! (a poem for starved children by Chikatito Jones)
I saw it quite clearly, Though it was no more than a glimpse. It was the rich yellow – The yellow of sun-ripened mangoes, The 'opioro' mangoes of my youth...