LET CAUTION MEET WISDOM
[caption id="attachment_1452" align="aligncenter" width="214"] Let Caution Meet Wisdom[/caption] In your heart's Yet darkened alleys, Let wisdom meet caution. It is the drops of rain, Soft and formless That gives the...
THE LAST QUEST (an excerpt, by Davids Ezimako)
[caption id="attachment_1447" align="aligncenter" width="300"] The Last Quest[/caption] We are Nomads, the Ulysses of these spheres. To slay, to win, to leap through undying flames; That occupy our hourly cares. But...
THE TRUTH (by Miranda Ogboru)
[caption id="attachment_1426" align="aligncenter" width="224"] The Truth[/caption] Let go of your erroneous concepts And heed these words! Like the Northern star, The Truth is always constant, Absolute, unwavering, wholesome, unending! The...
SALLAH RHYMES (a comic relief)
[caption id="attachment_1431" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Sallah Rhymes[/caption] Alhaji, that ram is not for you alone! I'm watching you, waiting! Don't let me change my pleading tone! ... I saw Musa and...
A SALLAH RAM’S TEARS (by Uchechukwu Ekwurekwu Obiakor)
[caption id="attachment_1419" align="aligncenter" width="300"] A Sallah Ram's Tears[/caption] I was held by throat And led To the slaughter slab, With a slap on my back! “Mee! Mee! Mee!” I cried...
I AM…!
[caption id="attachment_1415" align="aligncenter" width="257"] I Am...![/caption] i am the son of my mother the child of my father i am the creation of my creator an offspring of nature i...
FUGITIVES OF KNOWLEDGE (by Nwakanma Chika)
[caption id="attachment_1404" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Fugitives of Knowledge[/caption] The crows of ignorance, Have eaten the last seeds of logic. The grave yard is the wisest Because intellect has been buried. As...
FATE AND I
[caption id="attachment_1399" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Fate And I[/caption] I caught Fate Scribbling on my parchment And watched her pencil dance Out the words 'Gloom'. So I came at her With an...
HEAL OUR LAND (by Moses Opara)
[caption id="attachment_1395" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Heal Our Land[/caption] On wheels of broken legs, our land now crawls A million times backward in abject corruption, in ignorance! Hoodlums of ignorance, sharing our...
UKAMAKA (for Olisakwe Ukamaka Evelyn on her birthday)
[caption id="attachment_1389" align="aligncenter" width="270"] Ukamaka[/caption] Ukamaka, We whisper your name and wonder If it's meaning Would justify this rumbling thunder? You are the slender sugarcane Swaying with grace In the...