ONE DAY… by Akinbode Oluwatobi Israel
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...
FRIEND INDEED by Olabusayo Ajayi Hammed
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...
THE FOLLY OF EVERYTHING: RISE TODAY by Kanyinsola Olorunnisola
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,...
ÀWÈRÓ MI by Kolawole Samuel Adebayo
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...
THE DESECRATORS by Olusegun M. Lawal
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...
ITOMO by Oni Stephen
Itomo, With go and go my fathers had served you, Itomo, With do and don't my mother had served you, You made them dance naked in the horrendous harmattan that...
SAYING GOODBYE by Olabusayo Ajayi Hammed
i Goodbyes are doors That leads to nirvana Or another squinched door Where painted memories sync To the breath nights breathes Inside Colossal flashbacks: Gory reminiscence, of extrinsic feelings, Of...
LOVE REMEMBRANCE by Francis Annagu
We shall meet again, When the sorrel rivers Dried up in the mouth Of Daura sun, while You bout-time, thrashing, Under the Watermelon tree, Thrashing wheat of thousand sweetness, We...
FALLEN IN LUST by Uchenna Odukwu
Up and down she roams on a deserted island of lust often and often she sololiquizes words of love with painful patience she awaits their confluence. Mentally and physically he...
RAIN BOWS AND RAINBOWS by Andrew Ifeatu Jennifer
Spot by spot Drop by drop Drizzle by drizzle Then a bigger outpour Stealthily the sun emerges with a smile As beautiful as the Egyptian's nile While it's stomach is...