Category: <span>POETRY</span>

POETRY

PSITTACISME by Joseph Omojuwa

Joseph OmojuwaMarch 16, 2016July 16, 2017

Life, Vanity upon vanity! Counting countless countable, Of memories memorized for memories Bathing bateless battle, Of agonies, agonized from agony Deepening dripless depth, Of sanity, sanitized for sanctity Patching pathless...

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WHAT GOD AND I SAW by Kukogho Iruesiri Samson

Kukogho Iruesiri SamsonMarch 15, 2016August 21, 2017

(for Ondo and other cities) i. i saw man die on the same street he was born yesterday i saw a man killed by the same hands he shook yesterday...

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RELIGION OR FANATICISM? by Michael Inioluwa Oladele

Michael Inioluwa OladeleMarch 14, 2016July 22, 2017

1. The restraint That prevented cannibalism The one who spoke against it Who gave the unwritten law “Man shall not eat man” 2. Religion, The silent instructor, Who restrained the...

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WRITERS’ EXCESSIVE by Olabusayo Ajayi Hammed

Olabusayo Ajayi HammedMarch 13, 2016July 15, 2017

we see yes we see! we saw the snails following retiring prints and unknown names despairing fame tits we see yes we see! we saw the buried deeds sprout out...

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LIFE AND DEATH by Michael Inioluwa Oladele

Michael Inioluwa OladeleMarch 12, 2016July 15, 2017

When I have traveled far into the world's deserts, When I have seen what is meant for the eye and heard what is meant for the ear, When my bones...

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ONE DAY… by Akinbode Oluwatobi Israel

Akinbode Oluwatobi IsraelMarch 12, 2016July 16, 2017

I sit on this sick chair, Rolling dice upside down, Calculating disfigured figures, The answers, a sticky solution. The pin that pierced my sole, Made my hope to hop, Only...

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FRIEND INDEED by Olabusayo Ajayi Hammed

Olabusayo Ajayi HammedMarch 12, 2016July 16, 2017

I wait; like night waiter, waiting for new dawn. Then I let months swallow my plight, and await her embrace not anymore.... I sleep in a room where her portrait...

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THE FOLLY OF EVERYTHING: RISE TODAY by Kanyinsola Olorunnisola

Kanyinsola OlorunnisolaMarch 11, 2016July 22, 2017

The fire in her eyes seared my soul coal-black, Heaves of despair slouched her small, scrawny back, Engraved on her spirit was a weary lonely lack. For the first time,...

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ÀWÈRÓ MI by Kolawole Samuel Adebayo

Kolawole Samuel AdebayoMarch 11, 2016July 16, 2017

Àwèrò mi, that year, you gave me your heart and I gave you mine. It was an exchange; heart for heart; soul for soul. The day was February 13, a...

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THE DESECRATORS by Olusegun M. Lawal

Olusegun M. LawalMarch 11, 2016July 15, 2017

If the taught might be moral The rain of heart would have beautify the gold nobody knows what to anticipate Thats what they are saying till they defile the land...

Category: POETRY

PSITTACISME by Joseph Omojuwa

WHAT GOD AND I SAW by Kukogho Iruesiri Samson

RELIGION OR FANATICISM? by Michael Inioluwa Oladele

WRITERS’ EXCESSIVE by Olabusayo Ajayi Hammed

LIFE AND DEATH by Michael Inioluwa Oladele

ONE DAY… by Akinbode Oluwatobi Israel

FRIEND INDEED by Olabusayo Ajayi Hammed

THE FOLLY OF EVERYTHING: RISE TODAY by Kanyinsola Olorunnisola

ÀWÈRÓ MI by Kolawole Samuel Adebayo

THE DESECRATORS by Olusegun M. Lawal

CỌ́N-SCÌÒ MAGAZINE: ‘BREATHE’ [ISSUE 5, VOL. 1 | JUN, 2025]

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