Love – Words Rhymes & Rhythm

TO LOVE (a poem by Imelda Ugwuanyi)

thinks it’s “this”
She believes it’s “that”
They bring “this”
and put “that”
It never solved the puzzle.

WHAT IF I SAID I LOVE YOU (a poem by Emmiasky Ojex)

What if I said I love you? Would your heart skips its stepping stones and you fall into a bottomless hole?

love must hurt (a poem by Oppong Clifford Benjamin)

when yaa gyanfuah threw her eyes on the mirror walls of the restaurant she saw the debris of what was love on her face

LETTER TO A STRANGER by Bamas Sinach VicToria

Hello Stranger, I look for you in every faceWhen I am walking, in a crowded hall, at the bus terminalI search for you in every smile, in every look, in every expressionIn my sleep, I search for you In the faceless characters of my dreamsEvery day I wonder if today is the day I will… Continue reading LETTER TO A STRANGER by Bamas Sinach VicToria

LOVE (a poem by El Sane Ken Silencer)

Love is peace
When you have the heart
Love is maltreator
When you lost the liver–

IMPERFECTIONS (a poem by Victor Igiri)

I could be to you like the dew upon the rose; the blade of the grass or as the face of the sword I could be the blisters on your skins or the venom of the black mamba; I am not black I am only human.

LOVE IS FOR THE EVENING by Yugo Gabriel Egboluche

our grasses aren’t green, the kind of love that grow here need not lay on them our love is upright, we love on our toes under shades of bearded trees our oaths are etched on trees, which do more than bear our names like signatures dotted on papyrus our love is for… Continue reading LOVE IS FOR THE EVENING by Yugo Gabriel Egboluche

EXPLICIT LOVE by Olutona Emmanuel

Whenever I turn on my radio Around Feb`ry, all I hear is love Even when I open up my window I see two birds showing love I can’t really comprehend What most of my friends Would do in this climate that`ll soon end Cos girls in their wiles Love parading up and down Some miles… Continue reading EXPLICIT LOVE by Olutona Emmanuel

GREEN LIBYAN by Victor Igiri

Illegal migrants from Africa, attempting to reach Europe, walk towards a detention center off the coastal town of Guarabouli, 60 kilometres (36 miles) east of the capital, on July 8, 2017. Thirty-five migrants, including seven children, were feared drowned after their inflatable craft sank off the Libyan coast, the coastguard said. Eighty-five migrants, including 18 women, were rescued with the help of fishermen who alerted the coastguard. / AFP PHOTO / MAHMUD TURKIA (Photo credit should read MAHMUD TURKIA/AFP/Getty Images)

How can the flower blossom when the Garden ebbs in cancer? Who will notice our tears in dark rains to restore? …and whose hands will saviour who dines unsublime? Today is libyans, a tale we tell of Escapees; but to wither a leper in this Ancestry or war- through a sojourner, which has survived your… Continue reading GREEN LIBYAN by Victor Igiri

I AM YOUR SIGN, YOUR WONDERS, AND YOUR MIRACLE by Joshua Levites

My eyes are your signs, Your Good news; Years, You were hidden to emotions, A gentile of love. You lived unworthy Of the promises of affection. Until you found grace By the gospel of love My eyes preached.My smiles are your wonders, Your miracle; You have been wounded deep, Bruised bad. Your heart clothed in… Continue reading I AM YOUR SIGN, YOUR WONDERS, AND YOUR MIRACLE by Joshua Levites