MOSQUITOES by Ndukwo Kalu Ugah
Arise, Lifeless body: And feed me more As the day goes greedy To steal from your shore; With lists of its need, And food to feed. Mosquito, Leave me alone:...
SIXTH SENSE by Yugo Gabriel Egboluche
Who says there was silence in the dawn? When all I hear is the stillness, of cherubs and seraphs whispering through light. Who says there was darkness? When all I...
POETRY IS NOT… by Kukogho Iruesiri Samson
poetry is not a petal it is a flower in bloom red rose, cocky bud thorns and leaves poetry is not a flower it is a garden in bloom bloody...
MYSTERY by Uchenna Odukwu
Staring at the sky above As soft as the shadows I wonder if there is a place above Containing millions of souls, And a person greater And older than the...
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...
YAY! I SAW AND I SEE by by Joseph Omojuwa
Behold, I saw and I see, I saw men retreated to separate lines across the great border, behind the gigantic water that hath no Walls, behind the very river that...
WHEN HARMATTAN HAMMERS YOU by Sunsampaul Egwu
When harmattan hammers you, You begin to shiver like a busy river, Your nostrils become block like an ice block, Your brain vanished to forlorn dreams, That's when you begin...
TRUE FATE AFOOT by El Sane Ken Silencer
Shines the sun to the moon wills done Smiles the earth darkness is bygone Swings are trees to the leaves air is musical Humans in tarantella their hair worries are...
THE MUTINY OF THE DEAD by Adeosun Pelumi
The wilted branch of the willow tree Drooped, touching her headstone with its tender fingers, The browning grasses and the primroses stood like A thousand soldiers, ever watchful and protective...
A MAP OF AFRICA by Onisowurun Sampson
(I) I see them all The grey and concrete pillars of a continent The entrails of the yoked in spirit Sealed here and there over the land. I see the...