Darker more to the darkest of what we know dark the world is beautiful. It always shine like the chameleon that takes the beautiful colour to all eyes the world is beautiful. Shinning, like a gold that does not rust blowing some to whirl like no one turns yellow the world is beautiful.
Tag: Earth
THIRD WORLD WAR by Gideon Abowha
*Third World War* _Guun!_ _Guun!_ _Guun!_ _Lash!_ _Lash!_ _Lash!_ Children cry Militias smile Paying price Human flesh torn; lost souls Helter skelter we went. _Whuuh!_ _Whuuh!_ _Yeeh!_ _Yeeh!_ Women screamed loudly Wrappers flew off skirts World revolve in perplexity All seems like a complexity. Men cowardly pointing tommy guns We; sweating and shivering For hell… Continue reading THIRD WORLD WAR by Gideon Abowha
FOR YOU, TASMANIA by Samuel Amazing Ayoade
(For the extinct human group: Tasmania Aborigenes) I heard the geckos sing – a fairy tale As they traverse the walls of forgotten memories: Love has forgotten you, O Tasmania For you have outgrown nature This was you, Tasmania: Flower of the sun-rising – blossom inits youthful age Little periwinkle wading through the Oceans turbulence… Continue reading FOR YOU, TASMANIA by Samuel Amazing Ayoade
THE WORLD IS DEAD El Sane Ken Silencer
I was asleep, when I heard the whoops that sane’s awake but when I woke I found sane dead And I cried… ‘The world is dead.’ Now a ghost Wandering, and I wonder Wandered and remembered That it might had been killed By over joyed- possibly! it died accidentally. ‘The world is dead.’ It died… Continue reading THE WORLD IS DEAD El Sane Ken Silencer
EARTH by Cletus Nnaemeka
She’s almost everywhere, dominating in quantity velvet-textured in every ware. she’s the heart of gravity. Docile, she’s ever been. Never hostile, she entertains the feet of every being. She sustains trees on which birds rock. Her services are free, she’s shelters’ bedrock. Often seen like a ‘thing’ She never grumbles even when kicked about like… Continue reading EARTH by Cletus Nnaemeka
UNKIND PROPHECIES by Kanyinsola Olorunnisola
Let me tell you something: a few years from now, you will wake up to find the sun’s claws digging deep beneath the volatile beauty of your skin, water will flood your room and fill it up so only your eyes could breathe. The rain will sing dirges with sorrowful muffled tones and your ears… Continue reading UNKIND PROPHECIES by Kanyinsola Olorunnisola
TREES by Tukur Ridwan Ishola
we are all born unto this barren earth to live, and let live and then leave by being buried to fertilize the soils that make the graveyards an abode for trees to grow and glow in greens… and these trees are metaphors for an earth…inhabitable by we…the leaves as we are the leaves living along… Continue reading TREES by Tukur Ridwan Ishola
STRANGERS ON EARTH by Charles Bernard
Before us, many were After us, many will come Same sun, Same moon Same struggles and troubles Where are we headed? If not a gigantic circle From dusk to dawn Chasing our own shadows You are not alone Merely another clone In a thousand cities Men live with same worries Here, nothing is yours We… Continue reading STRANGERS ON EARTH by Charles Bernard
NATURE by Eseohe Pearl Ebhota
The clouds glide slowly in the sky. The sun gazes From behind the clouds Smiling eerily. The trees dance beautifully To music of the wind Listen to the birds As they sing melodiously. Standing by the ocean I was dumbfounded Watching as the waves Tumbled fiercely, fighting for supremacy. From the top of the hill,… Continue reading NATURE by Eseohe Pearl Ebhota
A DOZEN HAIKUS TO NATURE: Ayodeji A. Adeyemi
I fleet a way the heat soak, pant the roof so loud ly mix with dry tears II sashay the thin trees ruffle from root to green hair chase, whirl in splendor III sizzling the raw meat glow bright to the sense to smell jumping from roof to wall IV flow flow flow to dusk… Continue reading A DOZEN HAIKUS TO NATURE: Ayodeji A. Adeyemi