PATHOGENESIS OF REGRETS by Omotayo Awoyemi
Find a good man, whose Head wheels a halo of hopes, Crouch like a tigress, Let him love you like a cat, Stroke your head and back Till his soul...
THIRD WORLD WAR by Gideon Abowha
*Third World War* _Guun!_ _Guun!_ _Guun!_ _Lash!_ _Lash!_ _Lash!_ Children cry Militias smile Paying price Human flesh torn; lost souls Helter skelter we went. _Whuuh!_ _Whuuh!_ _Yeeh!_ _Yeeh!_ Women screamed...
WHO ARE ITS VICTIMS by Ngovou Gyang
I just came out of surgery I’ve got just one eye now because of his battery He used the baseball bat on my head And tossed the flower vase on...
A NEW INDEPENDENCE by Jesse Asonze
Sullen expressions upheld by facial muscles Of heroes past Zik, Awo, Tafa and their brethren under one communion Unhappy in their colonity* Rose with a vengeance To agitate and initiate...
NEW YEAR by Dominic Ayegba Okoliko
Let all hearts break into joy With gratitude boiling Beyond containing measure For the great pleasure Of witnessing a New Year Like a sweet soft flowing streams The year has...
FEAST OF WORDS 2016: A TESTAMENT OF LOGIC AND ALTRUISM
Closing the pages of a mind containing the tactile memories of the WORDS RHYMES & RHYTHM (WRR) LITERARY FESTIVAL 2016 – THE FEAST OF WORDS, is an impossible endeavor. There...
THREE MICE AND A KITTEN by Theophilus Femi Alawonde
Three old spinster mice, thought they ought to be nice. They found a cold kitten, and they didn't stop to reason. They took her to their hole, and Dorothy brought...
WWW (WORLD WITHOUT WOMAN) by Akinbode Oluwatobi Israel
World without woman: A day without the sky, A sky without the clouds, A dice without numbers. Flies on the rottenness of man; Hovering Silence in leaked cans, A Street...
SHADOW CAST by T. Masterpiece
Several eyes beam their lights on me and lo a cast. It’s my look-alike, but yet so dark and doesn’t last. It gives me several looks, of some I...
PRECIOUS MEEMAH by Oluwatosin Ayodeji
Among thorns - obstacles We sat all night And read words within my lines resonating lines --- Poetry That teases bodies and minds Felt the hair in my follicles Rising...