EJIRE: Abiola Inioluwa Oluwaseun
Ejire Araisokun The defense of our culture, The back-bone of our nature. Our mother is weary But steadfast in your tenacity. Edunjobi The gods are long dead, Yes! They've been...
SILENT VOICES (AN ORPHAN’S CRY): Abiola Inioluwa Oluwaseun
Silent Voices (An Orphan's Cry) I know the feeling that Juvenile felt When deserted beneath an isolated tree, Do you know that feeling? The fear that gripped souls of those...
CONFESSION ON MY GRANDMOTHER’S GRAVE: Mosela Kgomo
with this emptiness and burning pain with no happiness only tears my eyes contain no joke can remedy the injury I sustain never will your smile be life's entertain your...
MUST YOU BUY BULL: Kukogho Iruesiri Samson
hey, open your Bible! read it! must you buy bull
AJE PAKO: Ogoluwa Simon Ojewale
Beneath these fiery eyes looking brief and hollow Lies a being you’d be scared to follow My mind is the reveille that brings my soul awake Till it lunges like...
LET ME DIE: Abiola Inioluwa Oluwaseun
What if my words drag me Into that jungle of forgotten souls And my intuition is clinched upon the castigated tree, Would you drown in sympathy? What if my fortitude...
A LOVELY DREAM: Aremu Adams Adebisi
After plays of the midnight band, We strolled late past the lone parkland; She kissed gracefully my lips more As we danced through the backyard door. On the grassy field...
THE RACE BEGINS AGAIN: Kukogho Iruesiri Samson
They have come again to the tracks; Familiar faces awaiting the pistol crack And he that gets there first Shall soon have a puffed up chest. See, now they are...
THE BOY AND THE RAM: Surhdique Adeogun
I weep for thee; Tied to the stake Beside the burning flames And heavy metal pots. I weep for thee; Soon to be offered As a betoken of our worship...
HOLY–HOLY: Nwakanma Chika
Pastor, You mesmerized us with talks of greener pastures, Gold paved streets and treasure-filled mansions In a place, beyond the skies above us. But you own a Lexus and a...