DISTORTION by Gbalajobi Adejuwon
What! The divergence of thoughts and speech The immodesty of promiscuous words, And then our hearts an helpless Pilate, Releasing Barnabas, at the expense of the Just. Man’s unholy devotion,...
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AVENGERS: AN EYE FOR AN EYE
I look at the man screaming at my feet, my prisoner, grinning as he groans. You might wonder why he groans. He is simply in pain. I have just chopped...
MY STRENGTH IS IN YOU by Adedokun Seyi
I am my own chariot and warrior Winning battles without collecting enemies' lots It is queasy If my quiver is full of breathless warriors What sound of gong is sweet...
TELL THEM by Omotayo Awoyemi
Tell them we can see them; The house of bones they live in, The sweats that flush their gutters, The sweats of our fathers and mothers, and The blood of...
MAZE
I am a serial killer. I am not sick. I wasn’t abused. I flung the newspaper aiming for the waste paper basket at the corner of the room but missed....
IN BED WITH LADY ‘X’
Light came on and Maxwell opened his eyes immediately. “NEPA! The idiots have woken up,” he thought. He was lying on his side, near the edge of his oddly large...
WHY DO YOU CHOOSE TO STAY
Why do you choose to stay? Why? Tell me. Are you scared of what people will say? That you jump from one husband to another – that you have no...
WHY OLAMI-UCHE COMMITTED SUICIDE IN ABUJA
When Olami-Uche left his home on that fateful Thursday morning, his wallet had exactly one thousand, seven hundred and twenty naira in it. It was everything he had in the...
MY DIRTY DAY DREAMS by Ademigbuji Aishat
Hello future husband. I saw you in my dreams to day. Not night dreams though. In my dreams, you are an artist. A are painter/ photographer. We somewhere and we...
‘NOTES TO MY GOD’: FEMI PETERS DISPLAYS BARE THOUGHTS WITH POETIC FLAIR a review by Jide Badmus
TITLE: NOTES TO MY GODAUTHOR: FEMI PETERSGENRE: POETRYNUMBER OF PAGES: 161PUBLISHER: Zayzee WritesDATE OF PUBLICATION: 2017ISBN: -REVIEWER: Jide Badmus ‘Notes to My God’ is a collection of verses as the...