MY PAINS by Kenneth Mamman Alli
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...
FOR YEARS TO COME… by Kola Salami
I sought to create an art That'll last for many years. That just as wine grows better with age, The art will in many years taste better That it may...
ADOPTED A SUN by Charles Ifeanyi Ejiamike
Don't look me in the eye and lie, Don't say me nay when yes it is, For time has written you a choice - to die, Even when tears are...
HER NAME IS PAT by Christopher Titus
As I scramble the letters Into lines I pined for the Pat of my life Always as active as the Bat As I clambered up the vine I knew it...
EVIL MEN (for APO SIX) by Nnamdi Amasiatu
Sometime, someday, a decade ago The seat of my fatherland turned crimson A voluntary graveyard set up with hate and spite By some presumed men of valor ...so said some...
POET OF THE WEEK: COVENANTED NONSO POET
Fast rising poet and short story writer, Covenanted Nonso is out Poet of The Week (#POTW). Nonso is the first son of his parents, who has a healthy appetite for...
THE EMPTY I by Yusuf Adamu Yusuf Tagarji
It happened on days as long as I, with a swirling breeze that cools my eye. Sitting on a chair like a Roman king, I gazed at up down as...
THE FATHER’S SON by Jeremiah Abaire
I have a father A father and friend; the best ever Who cares for me, even in my blunder He strengthens me to get stronger He motivates me to get...
VANITY MISSION by Ololade Akinlabi
The journey to somewhere actually to nowhere Underneath the penniless skin lies the sleeping bones cracking, rumbling and snoring wakes when the light smiles Set into motion till the power of...
I’M STILL HERE by Adeniyi Kilanko
hours, like a racehorse, charge away the scorching sun is getting tired and for dusk, it makes way but I'm still here, like one who,to an unmade bed is wired,...