Another 12-Year old has just been laid to rest with his mother wailings as the day before yesterday, he laid on her chest,
A HOUSE WITHOUT HOME (a poem by Ayeyemi Taofeek)
Where is the last path on this map? Where does it leads? The end or the beginning of endlessness? I'm exhausted cramming every escape route that leads out of this...
GRIDLOCKS (a poem by Victor Igiri)
A million days still counting against CHIBOK and here we begin a new census for DAPCHI,
that which chronicles the ruins of dark Centers.
WHILE I STARE (a poem by Emmiasky Ojex)
Guns became our toys, breaking hearts became a thing of joy, corruption became a hobby
and we’ve turned immorality into our Tommy
ONCE UPON A TIME (A POEM) BY GABRIEL OKARA
Once upon a time, son, they used to laugh with their hearts and laugh with their eyes: but now they only laugh with their teeth, while their ice-block-cold eyes search...
FAR AWAY (A POEM FOR PIUS ADESANMI) BY IZUNNA OKAFOR
Pius Adesanmi (born on 27th Feb. 1972) was an award-winning Nigerian-born poet, Poet, Essayist and Columnist, and literary critic.
A GREAT LOSS by Anyanwu Sixtus
My heart is at pieces Hearing of your early demise Shocking my heart string in my dirge You shouldn't have gone this way Leaving us the upcoming poet With no...
I WAN BE LECTURER (A PIDGIN POEM BY ARUM MALACHY)
I neva see lecturer wey no dey knack fine fine girls wey dey for him class
LOVE (a poem by El Sane Ken Silencer)
Love is peace
When you have the heart
Love is maltreator
When you lost the liver–
TALES BY NIGHT (a poem by Yugo Gabriel Egboluche)
Stare into the night, so you’d see the moon, swimming thru buoyant ocean of clouds. Stare, so you’d perceive from its trail, a desert of astounding grandeur