YOU by Oriade Olarewaju Tajudeen
1 Your name is... a gradual addiction It overstep the boundaries of normal emotion Your personality is... a gradual attraction It overstep the boundaries of normal distraction 2 If I...
FUFU GBONA DEE by Prince Kuti Adetoye Olayinka
"FuFu gbona dee" Looking through my window I saw the young lad hawking fufu When I'm still on bed When the nature looks freezing And men are hugging their covering...
MY CHAMELEON MISTRESS by Samuel Amazing Ayoade
Your lady came bleating instead of singing Made me to remember- That her best friend as a child was Old grandpa’s nanny goat They followed eachother Around in the rounds surrounded...
THIS THING CALLED L-I-F-E by Eseohe Pearl Ebhota
Life is like a merry go-round One moment you are up The next you are down Haters are waiting to see What would become of you. Where are they now?...
TEN AND FINE by Goodness Ayoola
I am the paddle On the river of poetry I am the rich ripples and a riddle My poetry is the strength of a sentry. This ship is my heart....
THE AFRICAN WOMAN by Goodness Ayoola
Tonight, the moon has refused to wane Milky, she stays watching… The figure nightly clothed, flanked with duty The pestle woman and the defeated yam In the rugged mortal to...
ORENTE by Ogunkoya Oluwadamilare
I saw you, by the stream last night under the shimmering moonlight where life is beautiful and time full of passion. I hear it, the volume of your furtiveness things...
Nigerian Poetry – CHAINED! by Uduak Otongaran
Don't chain me down with your words Don't hold me down! You tear me into shreds Like a threadbare rag When you bark orders at me I shrink And withdraw...
TWO LIPS ON LOVE’S UDDERS by Kukogho Iruesiri Samson
— for Mrs Kukogho-to-be we may drift apart like boats in troubled seas when emotions’ hands hijack our rudders and, briefly, our journeys may cease… till our lips meet on...
THE LOVER’S PLEA by Bamas Sinach Victoria
Tears and Sadness marks my face as I stared into empty space I pondered if I have played my last ace as I prayed for God's Grace. As past emotions...