THE CHILD by Cletus Nnaemeka
How time flies, I once had those innocent babe's eyes. Wonder what's on that serene mind Even if I asked, it'd be the blind leading the blind. Man has always...
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS – 'REMEMBERING HOME' POETRY CONTEST
QUALITY POETS in collaboration with JBF PLANET hereby invites Nigerian poets to submit poems for her first poetry competition themed ‘REMEMBERING HOME’. The theme, 'REMEMBERING HOME', is aimed at exploring...
A MAN AND HIMSELF by Kukogho Iruesiri Samson
if a man should go out looking for himself would he search inside the kitchen shelf inside a frothy bottle robbed of its waters or in the pockets of his...
WHO WILL REMIND ME OF WHO I AM by Bamas Sinach Victoria
Who harangues for the Rauti? I have reminded people of who they are I have run alongside them as they charge into battle I kept up their courage by singing...
BED BUG by Aderogba Adekunle
Bed bug? I have known you from your genesis: a speck of dust Impatient enough to be hatched by your busy-hunting mother- Who is fertile enough to birth till the...
WE ARE TIRED OF GROWING by Oppong Clifford Benjamin
Over here, life is on pause like Auntie Fafa's uncompleted structure. On its half course walls, red markings read 'Stop work, produce permit by KMA'. It has been there since...
I’LL BE THERE FOR YOU by Christopher Titus
When the sun’s set to shine When the birds are Out of their nest When all you’ve wished Is to become the best There’s always a hand That never changes....
HOW LONG? (FOR MOTHER AFRICA) by Ogedengbe Tolulope Impact
Mama, Have you seen your children Scattered all around Like sheep without a shepherd? Have you seen them Been dispersed like dry pollen grains In the hands of strangers Who...
SOMETHING IS WATCHING by Joseph Omojuwa
The Sun will not cease from bleeding, The moon shall never retire crying. The earth will never repent from evil, And the stars are watching. They have seen the crooked...
PETTY-ROLL by Oki Kehinde Julius
hungry kegs goes unfilled at a fast food where pump splashes fluid. barrel starved to fast the length of ramadan after jew's wednesday had been burnt into ashes. . angry...