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...
SHE IS HOPE by Esther Kalu
She takes me through her world A description words fail to capture Bruised, battered By ugly circumstances She still stays stout She ensconces her pain In the most admirable smile....
LOVE IS FOR THE EVENING by Yugo Gabriel Egboluche
our grasses aren’t green, the kind of love that grow here need not lay on them our love is upright, we love on our toes under shades of bearded...
BLAME IT ON THE MONEY by Emmiasky Ojex
Look at our daughters They now show no ill in laying with men old as their fathers Look at our sons Nothing is holding them back from scamming the green...
SPANNING YESTERYEARS (a poem by Thaalith Abubakar Gimba)
Despite their slightly flawed chemistry, steadfast, perfected the art of love. The lovebirds shamed disciples of devil, in their duet spanning yesteryears above.
‘ON A STORMY SHORE’ BY KINSLEY DOMINIC
The waves tossed at me, Trying to tear me up into debris, "What will be will be!" Was all that came to mind amid the crisis. How does one go...