this caged bird is a boy, who longed for life,
for love, for normality. teachers said he was arrogant,
that he could well hear you speak, but he won’t reply you
WHAT IF I SAID I LOVE YOU (a poem by Emmiasky Ojex)
What if I said I love you? Would your heart skips its stepping stones and you fall into a bottomless hole?
HOW I SLEPT & WOKE (a poem by El Sane Ken Silencer)
This is how I woke with eyes strict wide, deep and gummed in dream.
love must hurt (a poem by Oppong Clifford Benjamin)
when yaa gyanfuah threw her eyes on the mirror walls of the restaurant she saw the debris of what was love on her face
HOW TO BE A HUMAN (a poem by Oluwaseyi Olatunji)
A million emoji, snaps, statuses, tweets can’t substitute the feeling of another hand holding yours, the comfort and succour that another voice gives.
REVIEW: PAPER PLANE IN THE RAIN IS A STRONG COLLABORATION BY TWO GREAT NIGERIAN POETS
TITLE: PAPER PLANES IN THE RAIN AUTHOR: JIDE BADMUS & PAMILERIN JACOB GENRE: POETRY) NO. OF PAGES: 50 PUBLISHER: WORDS RHYMES AND RHYTHMS LTD YEAR OF PUBLICATION: 2019 ISBN: NIL...
ON EARTH (A POEM BY EL SANE KEN SILENCER)
Now, who is a saint and who is a demon?
TELL IT TO THE MOUNTAINS (A POEM BY EMMIASKY OJEX)
Tell it to the mountains // tell it out loud that the world might hear // Wax up the steep and rugged hills, journey the valleys and fountains // tell them! oh tell them now that they are near
MUTED CRIES OF NIGER DELTA (POEM BY NIMI NISAKPO)
Victims we areOf ethnic majority,Alienation the daily routine,We must unopposedly observeOur agitation for freedom and equality,Branded treason. Echoed thieves,Called oil bunkerersPoachers of our resources,Born slaves in our land.Marginalized, strongly considered...
MIND YOU (A POEM BY EL SANE KEN SILENCER)
Mind you They are them that love talking Them that will tell you How afar others have gone in life Mind you They will tell you That he, that brother...