LETTER TO WIFY by Lebile Melt Tosin
Dear wify, I'm not a saint Only your love kept me on the road It's not easy to say yes and keep it You need to let love burn or...
DESIRE by Kenn Mamman
I feel lost but am found I feel hate but am loved Deep inside am changed All I see are stories of infidelity My life goes round n round Am...
LANDLORD’S ATTORNEY by Yugo Gabriel Egboluche
Rarely he comes, but once in a year, with sun-baked smiles for yes men wrists cupped by the burdens of holding unto grudges on file, he is not like rain,...
A PEN WIELDER’S PLEDGE
I fight the good fight of the ink Cut my losses I polish my shoes blue And talk in rhymes, the truth. I am a Pen-Wielder! -- Nonso Davies Donatus...
MINNA by Thaalith Abubakar Gimba
Known with antique native history, Seldom ranking among the perfunctory. A hospitable home of avid writers, Perusing books with fat chapters. Custodian of all facets of literature, Notably blessed for...
GREEN LIBYAN by Victor Igiri
How can the flower blossom when the Garden ebbs in cancer? Who will notice our tears in dark rains to restore? ...and whose hands will saviour who dines unsublime? Today...
MY PAINS by Ken Mamman
I hear cries everywhere At night I sleep not In the day restless I be I see the homes of me families Turn to shreds Blood suckers everywhere On our...
AJAYI ADETOLA by Victor Igiri
Your night came as whirlwind sweeping the tides to thorns and misery. For love, you became unioned in a scandal whose hero jailed truth for white lies. Kirikiri unfleshed...
AS I LAY DYING by Thaalith Abubakar Gimba
As parts of my body wither, My bones are eager to desiccate. My eyes rove hither and thither, As though I felt the urge to defecate. I heard death grants...
TENSIONS by Victor Igiri
... with eyes still offloading yesterday's affliction he sprouts before the cock yawns, robes out flawlessly in multiple sighs, wings swiftly like the eagle though in legs in this unripe...