BONDAGED BRIDE by Ifeoluseyi Ifeoluwapo Ifeyemi
Today we unveil our new bride, The groom's kinsmen think she's antithetical to pride And there she hides! Gravitating towards 'angelic encounters', she rides; Closer to the groom, Holding a...
QUERY TO DESTINY by Aderogba Adekunle
Why clothed I In garments of fine silk And I, yet Make fidgets? Why covered I With loins of soft fibers And still on my skin- Coarse weaves? Why lost...
A MAP OF AFRICA by Onisowurun Sampson
(I) I see them all The grey and concrete pillars of a continent The entrails of the yoked in spirit Sealed here and there over the land. I see the...
A STRANGER TO LOVE by Damilola Olumegbon
Tell me something, A tale I've never noticed, A perfect film story, With all the romantic glory, From the view of a spectator's satisfaction, The one that creates certain imagination,...
UNTOLD CHILDHOOD by Prince Kuti Adetoye Olayinka
Hear my words I was born under the silent night And brought up by pain's twilight Not born with a silver spoon Nay!no golden spoon graced my putrid tongue I...
TWO BECOME ONE by Goodness Ayoola
Rhythms crawl up the lines of strings Strings like springs of comfort in pitter-patter rhythms Hearts beat in bits, saintly shatters by the struck of love Love creeps in a...
AMUSED by Goodness Ayoola
Like a sudden rise of a gallivanting sandstorm Successive sighs plane my deserted desert heart Like the heat of the rising scorching sun on cold clouds A cold of torridness...
LET ME BE A CHILD by Taiy Peter
Please, Mom and Dad, My hands are small I don't mean to spill my milk It just happens My legs are short Please slow down So I can keep up...
ORÍ by Olusegun M. Lawal
ORI When the lively goes sour When the mighty turn weak When the drum-beat becomes soundless Orí, lead me not astray Jumping from tree to tree Climbing the highest peak to...