EVERY FACE by Cletus Nnaemeka
In this race, All fight for glory. Every face has it's own story. As the hat spares the head from something. So every heart beats for something. In every mind...
WORDS IN THE WIND by Jerry joel
Floating in the wind, are wise words ricocheted off foolish ears, like indian rubber balls. Floating in the wind, are wantonly whispered words on destinationless journeys, whirling with the wind....
CITY OF OWLS by Efe Ogufere
Despair… A parliament divided, the nation in flight When death came in hoots, we stepped aside. A mother laughs when her tears are spent Blood and smoke creates a perfect...
I LISTEN TO YOU by Amore David Olamide
I listen to the sprout of these words coming out Betwixt the puncture of your ivory carves... I listen again and again and again in times.. To this substantial tendency...
BEFORE THE DAWN OF MAN by Olusegun M. Lawal
Before the night feast on the morning sun And vomit its intestine to smile at noon I save the glorious mind Which escalates through the slippery part . Before the...
I SLEPT WITH HER by Akinbode Oluwatobi Israel
On a day when the breeze seems lost, Roaming the streets, disturbing the trees, The rain came in search for the lost, That night... I slept with her. . I...
POET OF THE WEEK: “I CAN’T LIVE A LIFE WITHOUT POETRY” – MBAGU VALENTINE CHIGOZIE
Mbagu Valentine Chigozie is an award-winning Nigerian writer and Poet. He goes by the moniker ‘Vabec’. Though born in Onitsha, Anambra state, Mbagu hails from Ozalla in Nkanu-West, Enugu state,...
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: BRIGITTE POIRSON POETRY CONTEST 2016 [SEPTEMBER] – ‘SUICIDE – BEHIND THE DARK CURTAIN’
Words Rhymes & Rhythm (WRR) is receiving entries for the September edition of the BRIGITTE POIRSON POETRY CONTEST (BPPC) SEASON II [2016]. Nigerian poets, living in Nigeria, Africa and all...
BRIGITTE POIRSON POETRY CONTEST 2016: LAUTECH'S ADAMS ADEOSUN WINS BPPC AUGUST WITH 'THE POETRY OF A WOMAN'
The winner of the BRIGITTE POIRSON POETRY CONTEST 2016 (August) is Adams Adeosun, a student of architecture at Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomosho, Oyo State, Nigeria. [caption id="attachment_4203"...
PIN QUARTERLY JOURNAL (2016 SPECIAL EDITION) IS OUT!
The first print edition of the Poets in Nigeria PIN Quarterly Journal, Nigeria’s first journal dedicated to Nigerian poetry, is now available for purchase. It is a special edition. While...