MYSTERIES IN MY THOUGHTS by Amao Williams Praise
Mixed feelings evaporate from my mind, Mixed thoughts propagate from my heart - I don't seem to appreciate its kind But, I wish to relate with a bit of its...
I WANT TO KISS YOU by Joshua Levites
I want to kiss you Your lips send endless invitation, And I crave the sweetness therein, For It is like the honey that flows from the vineyards of timnah. I...
MUSIC by Joshua Levites
When the music plays We all shall feel it's sexiness. All heads jiggling in rhythmic play, Legs trembling in fine pattern The tintinnabulation of bells shall marry the strings. Melodies...
ALMAJIRI: THE HAUSA MALE by Theophilus ‘Femi Alawonde
The very day that Audu was born, his father said, 'I will not raise a son!' So the day he became five years, he was sent out admist his sisters'...
I SAID THESE WORDS: KUKOGHO IS WOLE SOYINKA IN A MODERN, 21ST CENTURY VOICE — a review by Shoola Oyindamola
TITLE: I SAID THESE WORDS AUTHOR: KUKOGHO IRUESIRI SAMSON GENRE: Poetry NUMBER OF PAGES: 88 PUBLISHER: WORDS RHYMES & RHYTHM PUBLISHERS DATE OF PUBLICATION: 2015 ISBN: 978-948 -406-2 REVIEWER: Shoola...
SERVIO’S ‘A TRIBUTARY IN SERVITUDE' CARRIES LIFE IN IT— a review by Shoola Oyindamola
AUTHOR: SERVIO GBADAMOSI GENRE: Poetry NUMBER OF PAGES: 86 PUBLISHER: WriteHouse DATE OF PUBLICATION: March 9, 2015 ISBN: 978-97852838-3-9 REVIEWER: Shoola Oyindamola A TRIBUTARY IN SERVITUDE by SERVIO GBADAMOSI is...
RAIN by Joshua Levites
Yesterday, The sky winked at us and we snubbed; Friends gisted, we feasted. The sky's beauty, We treated with scorn. Sooner we realized The gracious threat of her graciousness And...
DEMON’S FARE by Eziudo Michael Nwachukwu
This demon on my mind is she That gives me nights without sleep And stands all my manhood errect Comes to my dreams and taunt me endlessly Puts smiles on...
LET US HAVE THAT PEACE AGAIN by Oluwaseun Shedrack Akodu
And the day a mist bloody hectic day of war Brothers drenched in blood Sister heads to bush Mothers breastfeeding the dog Fathers in tunnel Their return uncertain. The turning...
DEATH IS BEAUTIFUL by Ijalusi Oluwatola Samuel
O Death, I salute you the pliable merciful herald who ushers one out and in, transiting between life and death. Seen as the end but negate breaking bodies down to...