LIVING IN SPACE by Mfon Udoudo
We live in space, below space With no warmth nor cold, just faces Loose and falling with no braces With so much impacts to brace Empty and hollow is our...
LIFE IN A CELL by Christopher Titus
In this niche so to call But a cell Not even an inch to throw Or play a ball We fall and rise In this hell of guilt In this...
SOMEDAY YOU’LL KNOW by Yugo Gabriel Egboluche
No one can hear the shrill sounds she heaves daily on the walls surrounding her. Cries mashed up in the silence of hearts, stone deaf to the vanity of halves....
WE WILL RISE AGAIN! by Nnamdi Amasiatu
Wake up, wake up Awake from the dream land to reality Though we've eaten deep into our bones We've stretched and will not let go We will rise again Some...
LOVERS WE WERE by Kelly Iyogun
Like dreams we met Too hard to believe but inseparable we were Arms cuddled together Your head nestled on my chest My fingers playing with your hair. In the moment...
OYENUSI by Ololade Akinlabi
........then I realised Oyenusi lost his gun powder. Giving voice to the dumb guns, wakes up the sleeping trigger breaking the taboo of the silent midnight as eyes awake from...
IN THOSE DAYS by Micheal Jacob
In those days when our fathers carried woods on bicycles When under the mango tress serves as relaxation centres Palm wine as red wine, cola nuts serve as chocolates Cleaning...
WE WILL RETURN by Michael Inioluwa Oladele
We are on the way to the farm The enemy ridges are calling us the creepers seduce our legs but we move on, up we climb up the Everest we...
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: BRIGITTE POIRSON POETRY CONTEST 2016 [MAY]
Words Rhymes & Rhythm (WRR) hereby calls on all Nigerian poets all over the world to enter for the May edition of the BRIGITTE POIRSON POETRY CONTEST (BPPC) SEASON II...
TILL TOMOROW DIES by Ololade Akinlabi
Our long awaited table refuses to turn, In starvation we rejoice in impoverishment we smile, smile our tinted teeth-a slogan for poverty. Hope, no longer in our anthem Children,recite dirge...