CONFESSION ON MY GRANDMOTHER’S GRAVE: Mosela Kgomo
with this emptiness and burning pain with no happiness only tears my eyes contain no joke can remedy the injury I sustain never will your smile be life's entertain your...
LET ME DIE: Abiola Inioluwa Oluwaseun
What if my words drag me Into that jungle of forgotten souls And my intuition is clinched upon the castigated tree, Would you drown in sympathy? What if my fortitude...
THE BOY AND THE RAM: Surhdique Adeogun
I weep for thee; Tied to the stake Beside the burning flames And heavy metal pots. I weep for thee; Soon to be offered As a betoken of our worship...
A RIDE OF DARKNESS by Adeosun Pelumi
Ill fated dusk; When the moon shines above And the glittery stars twinkled to life, The dark and its minions rode. And with tendrils of dread Planted in each men...
I’M ALREADY GONE: Kay Ugwuzor
When I'm dead, Put my body in a metal box Throw it into the bottom of the sea So people would not come to see And pretend to mourn Who...
WHEN I’M DEAD: Covenanted Chimnonso
Prologue: Dear child, if you’re reading my biography Sometime in the near future, When I’m dead and dailies are eulogizing me, And you pick up this poem to read, Know...
AND THE CLOUDS RECEDED: Stanley Princewill McDaniels
And the clouds receded: Bit by bit it dissolves With the wind on the sky's pew; Spite the contraction of the beams, Sunset resolves The labour of man; after hours...
FOR THE DEAD, FOR THE BEREAVED: Covenanted Chimnonso
when this sea o'erflows its borders, brother, when we are no more bothered by the weight of life's worries and cares; there is consolation yonder. -adieu? but we seek for...
MAN SAID
And man said… Let there be cars, And surrogate replicas of stars. Let there be, Little pools to trap the sea. And there was… Man said … Let there be...
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