HATE ME AND LIVE (on broken Love by Owokere A. Etim)
[caption id="attachment_845" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Hate Me And Live[/caption] It seems I have been known By fruits only for a brief season sown True, I do not deny my sins: That...
UNLOCKING FAITH, HOPE AND LOVE ( by Yakubu Andrew)
[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="182"] Unlocking Hope and Faith and Love[/caption] At sweet break of dawn, I stand before a mirror To witness the birth of love – For heaven is...
IF….
[caption id="attachment_833" align="aligncenter" width="227"] If[/caption] If brightness the sun should ever lack And all the stars we see turn black… …Even if the moon refuses to shine And two o'clock...
JUST ME ALONE!
[caption id="attachment_817" align="aligncenter" width="238"] Just Me Alone[/caption] Its innocent me alone That's left to atone For the deed of ancestors – Long lost in earths stores. I'm left to right...
WE WEAVE MAT (by Nwilo Bura-Bari Vincent “Salute to Bori 2012)
[caption id="attachment_812" align="aligncenter" width="211"] Salute To Bori[/caption] This is one poem selected from Nwilo Bura-Bari Vincent “Salute to Bori" just published. We weave mat While their men weave war songs We...
INSECURITY (BY Nwakanma Chika)
[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="206"] Insecure[/caption] Insecurity – acidic and corrosive. Be generous, and the one wearing that garb Will think you a harbour of ulterior motives. Entrust such with little...
POETRY Vs. SOCIETY (an invocation by Kabir Ademoh)
[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="191"] Poetry Vs Society[/caption] Can A poet light up a stage With words as firmaments, from the thoughtful page? Fork lightening in the captor's cage,/ As he...
DROUGHT IN AFRICA (an earth poem by Moses Opara)
[caption id="attachment_786" align="aligncenter" width="275"] Drought In Africa[/caption] The smiling sky is afraid to rain upon the earth. And the sun is too shy to shine it's teeth upon us. Our...
THE DEVIL’S PAWN (Excerpts 2)
I. WHAT SEEK YE? What seek you in the devil’s lair? For they return not that come here! They breathe not again, my dear; Those that sniffed its foul smelling...
BRILLIANT DARKNESS (by Fr. Albert Jungers)
[caption id="attachment_774" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Brilliant Darkness[/caption] In the Congo where titanium reigns Tears fall like blood upon the ground. Women pay a heavy price For metal so light beneath them...