I am bird who believes in freedom, but I’m haunted every day. My life is an adventure with horrible tales as landmarks for my scars tells my story & my happiness dampens my grief.
PLATEAU BLEEDS by Victor Igiri
Throw JOS some black lit candles. Again we write more chapters in our 'book of bloods' with the narratives, an heritage for distant tongues to tell whose skins are unpeeled...
M.K.O ABIOLA by Victor Igiri
(…a tribute in respect of the honour conferred on him by President Muhammadu Buhari) Kashimawo, "Let us wait and see" so They said but Heroes don't die, No. They are...
SOLSTIC MOON by El Sane Ken Silencer
Beauty- i saw the sky and my heart flown as nature plied; Jiggling my whole my brow smirked as my mind went around; Thinking of heaven on earth- drowned in...
A MAVERICK’S DREAM by Alabi Muheez Ajibola
I dream, I hope, I wonder If we can make this world a utopia But, whenever I look hither or yonder My expectation always falter Because since inception Whether unknowingly...
A FAMILIAR SONG by Awoniyi Rasheed Olajide
I listen carefully; This melody is a soothing song on the lips of a whirlwind, And a banquet of festival for sands, branches, and leafs each to its own swirl,...
INSIDE ME by Akinyemi Abdulmalik
Inside me, I could hear the sound Of fire munching dry woods; I could see rebellious sparks Breaking from embers. The ashes are afloat; My sight is foggy; All I...
IF by Thaalith Abubakar Gimba
If I am the indispensable dust, I'd throw up any lifeless flesh That gets interred inside me. If I am the unwavering wind, I'd cease my daily escapades, Probably retire...
CHANGE THESE CHAINS by Victor Igiri)
Yesterday was Theirs they bemoaned Guma's...fall Today, ours we tell of Mbalom's... unripe pause; and Tomorrow, sure, shall be history's reawakening in Mama's four forks for ours is a land...
CHILDHOOD ROSES by Paul Chiwude
When we become old grannies and age disrupts our memories, Let us remember our napkins and where we began our stories. When we become youths and pushed by peers to...