TABLET OF TRUTH: Benjamin Elemide
TABLET OF TRUTH (Letter to my sister) Oyinlola, Money can never worth the sweetness of honey Neither can volume of sweat determine income. Honey, indeed is honour, in truth, dignity;...
MISS PELL: Pweenx Orlieturn Hadarms
A current lady in kings school Who everyone had thought was cool. She lived downtown the street of Sloke Whose pathway's dirts can make one choke. She had some chubby...
INSEPARABLE: Kay Ugwuzor
There were the moments That wove our hearts together In taut plaits Like tattoos etched on our light-skinned hearts We were one word Inseparable Time strutted away Like she had...
IF I DO NOT LOVE YOU: Echezonachukwu Nduka
If days are totally gone when Flowers brought with their scents that Charm that is love- Even if all flowers die and there are no scents To grace our presence,...
OF A PRIZE WON AND THE FASCINATION OF POETRY by Su’eddie Vershima Agema
13th December 2014: Over the weekend—two weekends back, I was handed the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) Joint Prize for Poetry 2014 for my book, Home Equals Holes: Tale of...
FOR THE DEAD, FOR THE BEREAVED: Covenanted Chimnonso
when this sea o'erflows its borders, brother, when we are no more bothered by the weight of life's worries and cares; there is consolation yonder. -adieu? but we seek for...
LOVE IS WORTH THE TROUBLE
CRAWL under, jump! Obstacles must yield RUN after the one for whom you long STAND, fight on love’s battlefield FALL in love while still young a wizened heart is too...
POET OF THE WEEK: UMORU SQUARE
Our Poet of The Week (#POTW) is Umoru Umoru Evidence also known as Umoru Square. Umoru Square, born in the ancient city of Benin, the cradle of black civilization, as...
VANITY WROTE A SONNET!
After the bugle call War begins and great men fall After the trumpet sound Amidst bloodshed, bleeding dreams abound When the bugle sounds Then regal vultures are called to feasting...
TO THE CHILD BRIDE
YOU WILL NOT SEE ME COME! MY SCENTS YOU WILL NOT SNIFF! THE THOUGHTS OF MY MIND YOU WILL NOT READ! NEVER WILL YOU CATCH THE WAVE OF MY DRIFT!...