BUT FOR HOW LONG by Maxwell Onyemaechi Opia-Enwemuche
It still grieves my heart my soul has never been at peace my people were killed at Abagana a war that kept us apart till date Rancor and bitterness rule...
IF THE CLOUDS COULD SPEAK by Maxwell Onyemaechi Opia-Enwemuche
If the Clouds could Speak She would cry bucket of tears every day As our recklessness causes her to be weak For we burn debris like hell every day. If...
QUIENCE by Samuel Amazing Ayoade
quience (this is still not the longest poem) i . this silence is a symphony of death. we dance to pledge allegiance to its sung dirge of a frustrated future...
BLACK BOX by Larry Onokpite
This little black box I carried as I plunge into the room A huge monster and friend Endowed with misery and mercy Spewed countless incantations Unto my little black box...
GOOD MORNING by Olorundare Tope
Good morning to the living Who wake to see the dawn Good morning to the death Who live by breathing and never see the light of the sun Good morning...
WE ARE BROTHERS by Saidu Mark Jatau
Why mock me in this state When i pray for you all day. We are not from same womb Yet our faith tag us brethren. Each night my knees fall...
FOR YOU, TASMANIA by Samuel Amazing Ayoade
(For the extinct human group: Tasmania Aborigenes) I heard the geckos sing - a fairy tale As they traverse the walls of forgotten memories: Love has forgotten you, O Tasmania...
DO NOT COME HOME by Micheal Ace
Son Do not come home Until the moon sees your shadows When the sun brings them in the day Do not come home Until the sun sees your tears When...
MY HEART’S JASPER by Dominic Ayegba Okoliko
The world might be complex. But I know a thing or two: In the whole of the known multiplex, You’re a star with a million dazzling glue. There aren’t too...
SHOPPING IN STYLE by Maxwell Onyemaechi Opia-Enwemuche
From dusk till dawn she moves around Without destination, yet shops without money Shame can never deter her moving around Never have I seen her in any acrimony. How long...