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
MAMA TEARS (a poem by Adigun Temitope Idealism & and Odey Goodness Ogeyi)
what else shall we give to this world, if not the bowl of tears that watered our children’s graveyard?
SHELVES by Emmanuel Udoma
There are many shelves in the rooms of my heart;most of them are made of agonies and compressed pains,the largest, are folded up, pressed downtill they overflow their brims. It...
WORLD’S LONGEST LOVE POEM: MY LOVE FOR MY LOVE
Editor's Note: Eighteen poets and poetry lovers from different parts of the country contributed to this panoramic poetic montage which was borne out of ardent desire to give Valentines Day...
IMPERFECTIONS (a poem by Victor Igiri)
I could be to you like the dew upon the rose; the blade of the grass or as the face of the sword I could be the blisters on your skins or the venom of the black mamba; I am not black I am only human.
ACADEMIC TESTS by Sahaj Sabharwal
I. Oh these tests! Superfluous academic tests for which there’s no time to prepare! Oh, damn these entrance tests! Oh, it is Difficult to store vast concepts in a small...