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THE LENIENT POEM AND SUBTLE MEANING (an analysis by Oludipe Oyin Samuel)

Words Rhymes & RhythmJuly 27, 2020September 16, 2020

A Big Airplane Crashed Into the Earth. I read Soyinka’s first collection of prison poems sometime in 2009. Categorically, I need not ‘push dumbfoundment to beg simplification; I hate a...

SALIHU MAHE’S CHAPBOOK WINS GREEN AUTHOR PRIZE 2019

Words Rhymes & RhythmDecember 15, 2019August 17, 2020

Words Rhymes & Rhythm Publisher’s Limited is pleased to announce Salihu Mahe, author of poetry chapbook How to View The World From a Glass Prism, as the winner of the...

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OUR LORD IS FRANCOPHONE (a poem by Omotayo Awoyemi)

Omotayo AwoyemiJune 18, 2019August 3, 2020

Our lord has ears, and he hears whispers of the bourgeoisie in his right, and wailings of the abject masses in his left; whose stapes is Apollyon.

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LETTER TO A STRANGER by Bamas Sinach VicToria

Words Rhymes & RhythmApril 4, 2019August 3, 2020

Hello Stranger, I look for you in every faceWhen I am walking, in a crowded hall, at the bus terminalI search for you in every smile, in every look, in...

A COMPENDIUM OF NIGERIA’S LITERARY FEATS AND DEFEATS IN 2018 BY IZUNNA OKAFOR

Izunna OkaforFebruary 5, 2019August 5, 2020

It is no longer a novelty that every calendar year wakes up and sleeps off with a natural book of many pages. Pages of dreams and visions, pages of imaginations...

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ERIATA ORIBHABOR POETRY PRIZE 2017 WINNING POEMS by Mesioye, Agarau & Ogwiji

Words Rhymes & RhythmDecember 12, 2017August 3, 2020

PROBABILITY (1st Prize) We are the two sides of a coin but unsure of the side that grits the ground in music brewed with morrows. This city is a...

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REMINISCENCE by Thaalith Abubakar Gimba

Thaalith Abubakar GimbaSeptember 9, 2017August 3, 2020

In Memory of Christopher Okigbo Do you recall Unspeakable episodes Of many drooling memories This nation nested in her bosom How this country murdered The fraternity of people bound by...

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THE CUP by Kingsley U. Ayistar

Kingsley U. AyistarSeptember 2, 2017August 3, 2020

Drink! Drink of the bridal juice That soothes the thirst of bachelorhood Sway! To the drumbeat of matrimony, To the dynamics of love That angels will never know... Put on...

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EPIDERMIS by Efe Ogufere

Efe OgufereAugust 20, 2017August 3, 2020

Beneath your skin, Dark and lovely connubial vials Hold ancient songs buried in liquid deep A serenade in the Serengeti A sunrise on distant hills Shedding light on black and...

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THE STARS by Obua Joseph

Obua JosephAugust 13, 2017August 3, 2020

The night steals a march on my soul Such visions but uncommon for a blind man mocked by nature for his inadequacy The stars keep me company in this painful...

Category: EDITOR’S PICK

THE LENIENT POEM AND SUBTLE MEANING (an analysis by Oludipe Oyin Samuel)

SALIHU MAHE’S CHAPBOOK WINS GREEN AUTHOR PRIZE 2019

OUR LORD IS FRANCOPHONE (a poem by Omotayo Awoyemi)

LETTER TO A STRANGER by Bamas Sinach VicToria

A COMPENDIUM OF NIGERIA’S LITERARY FEATS AND DEFEATS IN 2018 BY IZUNNA OKAFOR

ERIATA ORIBHABOR POETRY PRIZE 2017 WINNING POEMS by Mesioye, Agarau & Ogwiji

REMINISCENCE by Thaalith Abubakar Gimba

THE CUP by Kingsley U. Ayistar

EPIDERMIS by Efe Ogufere

THE STARS by Obua Joseph

CỌ́N-SCÌÒ MAGAZINE: ‘CURRENT’ [ISSUE 6, VOL. 1 | JUNE, 2026]

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