FOR THE DEAD, FOR THE BEREAVED: Covenanted Chimnonso
when this sea o'erflows its borders, brother, when we are no more bothered by the weight of life's worries and cares; there is consolation yonder. -adieu? but we seek for...
LOVE IS WORTH THE TROUBLE
CRAWL under, jump! Obstacles must yield RUN after the one for whom you long STAND, fight on love’s battlefield FALL in love while still young a wizened heart is too...
VANITY WROTE A SONNET!
After the bugle call War begins and great men fall After the trumpet sound Amidst bloodshed, bleeding dreams abound When the bugle sounds Then regal vultures are called to feasting...
TO THE CHILD BRIDE
YOU WILL NOT SEE ME COME! MY SCENTS YOU WILL NOT SNIFF! THE THOUGHTS OF MY MIND YOU WILL NOT READ! NEVER WILL YOU CATCH THE WAVE OF MY DRIFT!...
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...