DEAR LORD: Okeme Jerome Akpevwe
Your words I always pray to obey No matter how much they weigh Help me that I may not fall prey So I'll be brighter than the sun's ray. Lord!...
COLOUR WHITE by Ijalusi Oluwatola Samuel
Knock Knock Knock Who is that? It is me. What do you want? I want a colour. Which colour? I want the colour That speaks of validity of love I...
HAPPENINGS: Aremu Adams Adebisi
Wailings of children, Faces of sadness, Mournings of siblings, Bitings of regrets; For land is bloody In endless bombings. 'Had I wishes', 'Had I knowns'. Laments of fathers, Dirges of...
MOMMA by Obodokasi Adehtem Agbor
I like to run my fingers in your hair and lock it in braids, Braids of silver and coal, Youth and old, I like to make you an oasis of...
GUILLOTINE LIPS: Prime Chikweru
You riddled me with mouth bullets This is more fatal than a back stab! At your approach, my stomach is restless Your poisoned breath leaves me breathless You make me...
NOT MY CONCERN: Aremu Adams Adebisi
Hear me, kinsmen! Hear my lamentations! Those who do what has not been done Shall experience what has not been witnessed. If an ugly vulture Keeps pecking to death its...
PROGRESSIVE DESTINATION: Aremu Adams Adebisi
Driver, you stopped by them calling out In your sugar-coated voice of canvassing For the need for change and development And adequate uncommon mobility That promised a progressive destination. Driver,...
THE GHETTO STREET: Aremu Adams Adebisi
Waking up unremarkably To some silly shout. Arguments never culminate. We stop not the bout. The late night lovers hand in hand, Also in the night. Beside some cars some...
THIS LOVE IS NO MORE: Kay Ugwuzor
So this love is No more the fantasies No more about us No more the item we were Whatever that was This love is No more passions to fill the...
MISS MARY KAY: Ogoluwa Simon Ojewale
Her face is painted Without a touch of art Her beauty is tainted As it sinks down her heart She needs attention So she uses a dozen makeup Then gets...