OKIGBO SENT WORDS by Samuel Amazing Ayoade
Okigbo sent words to your majesty From the royal clan of Igbo Kwenu of the world yonder We seek change and not amnesty I, Okigbo sent these words. Concentration leaks...
PEN AND PAGES by Benjamin Anabaraonye
Pen and pages man's mind engages deeply in thoughts..... great words are brought. Pen and pages good writing encourages young and old,men and women for there's power in the pen....
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...
OUR LEAD-ASS by Amore David Olamide
We are a sea drifting like hurricane wavy enough to storm the city for the ache... for the melancholy of political jiggery-pokery and dubious cherished etiquette of leader's dishonesty... we...
WELCOME TO SODOM AND GOMORRAH by Lekan Malik
Welcome to Sodom and Gomorrah Where no iniquities are unleashed from purdah. In this place, sinners are no sinners Rather, merriment is made by the praise singers. Our leaders sit...
WE SMELL LIES, WE SELL TRUTH by Oloyede Joshua Adekunle
Family favours favouritism Mothers' favourites,sons Fathers'apple eyes,daughters We smell lies Lies' tie tied around our cords Teachers teaching cheat Cheat cheating teachers Corruption crisis Broken walls falling We smell lies...
CHANGE HAS COME by Sunsampaul Egwu
¶ Now that change has come. I'll sail through the deadly moon of our ancestors, to appease the gods of the forest. So our sisters will return to us not...
CORRUPTION by Ezeokoye Vanessa Onyinye
When did you go? When are you coming again? They have swindled us from our accretion, And battered us with their Ponzi schemes. Perjury is now a child's play, Backsheesh...
CHANGE HAPPENED WITHOUT ME! by Kukogho Iruesiri Samson
“I am a coward of no name I am a fool of sour fame For I sat among idle men While a wolf ate the hen.” Things had fallen apart:...
WOE! TO THE WEEDS ON FIELDS by Olajide Teniola
Woe! To the weeds on fields For their days are numbered still Woe to he weeds on fields! For they daily strive with planted seeds Their end will be without...