Month: <span>April 2016</span>

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS – 'REMEMBERING HOME' POETRY CONTEST

Staff WriterApril 29, 2016August 3, 2020

QUALITY POETS in collaboration with JBF PLANET hereby invites Nigerian poets to submit poems for her first poetry competition themed ‘REMEMBERING HOME’. The theme, 'REMEMBERING HOME', is aimed at exploring...

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A MAN AND HIMSELF by Kukogho Iruesiri Samson

Kukogho Iruesiri SamsonApril 28, 2016August 21, 2017

if a man should go out looking for himself would he search inside the kitchen shelf inside a frothy bottle robbed of its waters or in the pockets of his...

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WHO WILL REMIND ME OF WHO I AM by Bamas Sinach Victoria

Bamas Sinach VictoriaApril 25, 2016August 21, 2017

Who harangues for the Rauti? I have reminded people of who they are I have run alongside them as they charge into battle I kept up their courage by singing...

POETRY

BED BUG by Aderogba Adekunle

Aderogba AdekunleApril 25, 2016July 16, 2017

Bed bug? I have known you from your genesis: a speck of dust Impatient enough to be hatched by your busy-hunting mother- Who is fertile enough to birth till the...

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WE ARE TIRED OF GROWING by Oppong Clifford Benjamin

Oppong Clifford BenjaminApril 25, 2016August 26, 2017

Over here, life is on pause like Auntie Fafa's uncompleted structure. On its half course walls, red markings read 'Stop work, produce permit by KMA'. It has been there since...

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I’LL BE THERE FOR YOU by Christopher Titus

Christopher TitusApril 24, 2016July 16, 2017

When the sun’s set to shine When the birds are Out of their nest When all you’ve wished Is to become the best There’s always a hand That never changes....

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HOW LONG? (FOR MOTHER AFRICA) by Ogedengbe Tolulope Impact

Ogedengbe Tolulope ImpactApril 24, 2016July 22, 2017

Mama, Have you seen your children Scattered all around Like sheep without a shepherd? Have you seen them Been dispersed like dry pollen grains In the hands of strangers Who...

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SOMETHING IS WATCHING by Joseph Omojuwa

Joseph OmojuwaApril 24, 2016July 16, 2017

The Sun will not cease from bleeding, The moon shall never retire crying. The earth will never repent from evil, And the stars are watching. They have seen the crooked...

POETRY

PETTY-ROLL by Oki Kehinde Julius

Oki Kehinde JuliusApril 24, 2016July 16, 2017

hungry kegs goes unfilled at a fast food where pump splashes fluid. barrel starved to fast the length of ramadan after jew's wednesday had been burnt into ashes. . angry...

POETRY

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS LUCK by Michael Inioluwa Oladele

Michael Inioluwa OladeleApril 24, 2016July 16, 2017

Dear son of mine, Pay heed to these words of mine For they will be to thee a gold mine, And misfortune will not cross thy line. . There is...

Month: April 2016

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS – 'REMEMBERING HOME' POETRY CONTEST

A MAN AND HIMSELF by Kukogho Iruesiri Samson

WHO WILL REMIND ME OF WHO I AM by Bamas Sinach Victoria

BED BUG by Aderogba Adekunle

WE ARE TIRED OF GROWING by Oppong Clifford Benjamin

I’LL BE THERE FOR YOU by Christopher Titus

HOW LONG? (FOR MOTHER AFRICA) by Ogedengbe Tolulope Impact

SOMETHING IS WATCHING by Joseph Omojuwa

PETTY-ROLL by Oki Kehinde Julius

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS LUCK by Michael Inioluwa Oladele

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