‘HOW I BECAME A POET’ BY AIRE JOSHUA OMOTAYO
Through the nights of fading muse and the tincture of rhythm and blues, my soul danced on the stage of stammering history with drums and lyres scribbling my story. Through...
‘NIGERIA OF MY DREAMS’ BY OCHE CELESTINE ONJEWU
I dream of a land of tranquillity as our founding fathers did beget, Where I shall salute the national flag with zero regret, Where the green part of the flag...
‘WHEN?’ BY NYUWEM GOODNESS NYUWEM
As I wandered down idle paths in thoughtful solitudity, Numerous, the perturbations that accosted my mind. How did we raise a crater that evades sheer congruity? For a people we...
ONCE UPON A TIME by Uchenna Odukwu
Once upon a time In a country I call mine There rose a broom party Fed by change clothed sympathy An entity of old wine in a new skin...
TO BE FREE (a poem by Maxwell Onyemaechi Opia-Enwemuche)
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,...