TO BE A MAN by Dominic Ayegba Okoliko
If your idea about being a boy Is to cause another a boil, Then you’ve got it all wrong “Cause you’re no strong; Not inside and not outside. If being...
PROMISES OF THE HEART by Victor Olise
I will put my heart in your hands, mark my words. I wont let this thing we share fade away: never! I will show you that all men aren’t the...
CROCO WORLD by Larry Onokpite
I am never thirsty I gave up that chance hastily I do not regret this sacrifice Everything would suffice King of fluids High class residence of water Peacefully inhale juice...
LAMENTATION by Moses Oluwatobi Adebayo
Not the dead or lost, I revile That I lament and mourn sore; Neither regret him gone to exile, This sun I shall see no more; Do I cry for...
DEAR GIRL… DREAM! by Joshua Levites
You cried at your birth But they cried even louder. You travelled through tough terrains But you found no rest amongst brothers, Father. Even mother. You espied the gathering of...
FOR A STAR by Oluwaseyi Olatunji
For a star; I draw lines from muse, Yes, for a stunning star, I’m breaking rules. If every wish would be true, Like the Caribbean blue, Then haste my feelings...
POET OF THE WEEK: RULES OF THE GAME by Alozor Michael Ikechukwu
One at a time is the step of life Take a leap when you get to a pit Else, down the pit you'll dive When you resurface your bearing is...
LET’S MAKE A CHAPEL by Yugo Gabriel Egboluche
I won’t make a party out of loving you – protest to social lot, so I don’t get drunk - drunk on love, in the highs of now, to query...
FOOLISH ME! by Dominic Ayegba Okoliko
I toil night and day leaving no room for rest; For I thought to myself, ‘Rest is for those whom idleness have impressed’. So I turned an owl at night...
NO POETRY by Efe Ogufere
No Poetry could… Describe the beads of sweat, That form rivulets on Lamy’s back like dew. Explain how joy overflows In tears from eyes that have held sadness. Fathom how...