UMBLELLA UNDER MAIZE SACKS
hey! close the umbrellas! let rain pour on our bloodied fields let our battlefields drink to their fill, again watch! we will sow maize where we now plant bodies we’ll...
THE BOOK LEFT OPEN
He took The book. And as he began to write He began to cry... Tears ran From left eye To right. He looked from left to right He was alone Everyone...
THE NIGHTMARES VISITED ME TOO by Adeosun Pelumi
The gentle sigh of the night Lured me to sleep As i left behind the whispers Echoing through the voidness That suddenly surrounded me A hard descent, it was As...
MY HUT
My hut... My hut is my heaven Where every night I’m to laze Where not rats, cockroaches nor lizards are denied Where I get shelter, it is my haven There...
THE CHOICE: Kukogho Iruesiri Samson
you both did the waist dance you the pot, he the lance ecstasy in the arms of carelessness careless seeding - two hearts become restless to be a single mother...
YOU DON’T WEAR YOUR MADNESS WELL by Obodokasi Adehtem Agbor
If I talk they say I am mad, A mad man from a lineage of madder men And that I have conjugated in matrimonial bliss with mad music, But I...
MAN SAID
And man said… Let there be cars, And surrogate replicas of stars. Let there be, Little pools to trap the sea. And there was… Man said … Let there be...
SONNET TO KOLANUT
The colour of peace The ancestral dream Our liturgy and shrines No! fossil is out of it. The togetherness of our nation Lies under that pieces of this sacred fruit...
WHAT IS LEFT OF WHAT IS RIGHT
Here we are Enjoying the beauty of misery Roaming the streets Lost in the glory of poverty Contented with the emptiness of our souls Minds in utmost disarray But silence...
WITHOUT THE BLACKS
We are Africans, the blacks, The integral part of your existence The origin of arts and innovations, Importers of your imaginations Blessed are the blacks unborn. Without The Blacks, Who...