FRANK EZE WINS ERIATA ORIBHABOR POETRY PRIZE 2016
Nigerian poet, Frank Eze has won the fifth edition of Words Rhymes & Rhythm's Eriata Oribhbaor Poetry Prize (EOPP 2016) with his entry ‘Porcelain Plates’. Eze, a poet resident of Ibadan,...
MY HEART’S JASPER by Dominic Ayegba Okoliko
The world might be complex. But I know a thing or two: In the whole of the known multiplex, You’re a star with a million dazzling glue. There aren’t too...
SHOPPING IN STYLE by Maxwell Onyemaechi Opia-Enwemuche
From dusk till dawn she moves around Without destination, yet shops without money Shame can never deter her moving around Never have I seen her in any acrimony. How long...
REDEMPTION by Chinemerem Ikeogu
A solemn pledge A vow to break every hedge To smash the fetters that have restrained our progress To loosen the shackles that have made us grow less To halt...
THE SECOND COMING II by Joshua Levites
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BLACKOUT by Imelda Ugwuanyi
Tic-tak-tic-tak the time went slow just as it was noisy. My eyes were open yet my eyes are blind closing my eyes darkness I open the same. Just a perfect...
NOVEMBER by Jesse Asonze
Like a Phoenix Arisen out of ashes So is November Like the bloom Of daffodils The end of the year Is here again Ask then thyself Hope I spent not...
YOU ARE AIR by Joshua Levites
You have my heart Yet, I struggle to have yours In my hand. Your touch awakens goosebumps In every angle of me. Yet, my hands cannot get a hold of...
THE LIES WE SEE by Saidu Mark Jatau
She crystal gazed the ball, To unleash her weapons of doom to us. Some gloomy future lurking around, she said! As only words of broken hope came before our curiousness....
THE WORLD IS DEAD El Sane Ken Silencer
I was asleep, when I heard the whoops that sane's awake but when I woke I found sane dead And I cried... 'The world is dead.' Now a ghost Wandering,...