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...
TRUMP’S ‘SHITHOLE’ by Victor Igiri
Ours is a Landfull of Chameleons, Tigers and Hawks; a wild community of Vipers, and dicers who build us castles of snakes, with cancerous legacies, a trail to blaze by our...
WHEN I AM NO MORE by Stefn Sylvester Anyatonwu
When I am no more I will still be like the sting of a bee flesh deep in your mind leaving behind traces of my existence. When I am no...
GARDEN by Ganiyu Mohi Adedare
War. Who again is climbing the walls of war after the death of soldiers? Who will show us how swords and guns turned the dusk to nightly behavior and erased...
MONEY BECOMES ELECTION by Oluwaseyi Olatunji
In scramble of parties for the public purse, money becomes election_ and duties are forsaken. Yes! Our husband abdicates his onus, now they say he's an imbecile, some say he...
AS WE LAY OUR HEADS TO REST by Bijimi Daniel Meindous
As we retire for the day The work of the day we have accomplished The god of the harvest had smiled on us Fruits of many kind filled our barns...