THE OTHER SIDE OF LOVE by Kay Ugwuzor
I woke up On this side of your love Where your shoulder slouches And your fidelity sleeps On lascivious laps Kissing plastic lips. I felt your heart Beat to a...
MY COMMITMENT TO CHANGE by Yusuf Lekan
I hate every moment of heavy thought But this failed to elude me For my heart has become weary of it To write is nothing but to regain my feet...
IRENE by Stefn Sylvester
You are black, You are wise, You are beautiful, Of creativity are you full. When you dance Wriggling your curves From West to North They stare like morons Lost in...
AMALA DUDU by Olutunbi Oluwaseun Israel
How I crave you And adore your profound beauty I am drawn through space and time, on the wings of haste To your existence daily Same place, same timeAnd so...
FRIENDSHIP by Awa Chigozie Jerome
Friendship Pride has fangs It can kill Humility hangs In there to heal Trust is a bridge You are either taken forward In times of siege Or into an emergency...
ÌGBORÀN (OBEDIENCE) by Olusegun M. Lawal
Three brothers beautiful blood Soaring species and no blaming course Fossil religion? Not at all Within us Love and Peace reigns In togetherness they built their future In dreams their...
FAITH IN GOD by Ojo Adewale Iyanda
faith in God Singing crying wailing A life like bitter leaf Scarce always of honey Bile have hope than it Tears scare fear Encompass in her eyes Usually walk like...
WHITE LIE by Paul Word
I hid under this robe of pretence And watched you slit me in tense, The dagger sunk in five feet deep I stood, watching my heart weep. Lies wrapped in...
MAN ON A LEDGE by Prince Kuti Adetoye Olayinka
They say death is sweet Sweeter than honey,precious than money Tasting like ice cream eaten with biscuit. They say living is a crime For those who have nothing Owning only...
YOU AND I by Ikirigo Sokari Jeremiah
Poverty or in riches Full or empty dishes Forever together Its you and I Strong or ill Or whatsoever still Forever together Its you and I Crushed or bruised Be...