WHO BUILT NIGERIA: Abiola Inioluwa Oluwaseun
Let me inquire from Nigeria Why she had been broken From the ridge of slavery, And had to be buried In the sepulcher of her fertility? Who built Nigeria? What...
EJIRE: Abiola Inioluwa Oluwaseun
Ejire Araisokun The defense of our culture, The back-bone of our nature. Our mother is weary But steadfast in your tenacity. Edunjobi The gods are long dead, Yes! They've been...
WHO WILL RESCUE US: Okeme Jerome Akpevwe
Who will find the key to this cage of ours? Or are we going to be prisoners for life? For our wings have gone numb. We know not if those...
I CRY FOR THE GODS: Abiola Inioluwa Oluwaseun
I cry for the barking gods who write With illusory saliva on empty souls, But their words perish as particles of Silence hides their deceit in sepulcher of history. I...
UMBLELLA UNDER MAIZE SACKS
hey! close the umbrellas! let rain pour on our bloodied fields let our battlefields drink to their fill, again watch! we will sow maize where we now plant bodies we’ll...
SONNET TO KOLANUT
The colour of peace The ancestral dream Our liturgy and shrines No! fossil is out of it. The togetherness of our nation Lies under that pieces of this sacred fruit...
WHAT IS LEFT OF WHAT IS RIGHT
Here we are Enjoying the beauty of misery Roaming the streets Lost in the glory of poverty Contented with the emptiness of our souls Minds in utmost disarray But silence...
ELECTION AGITATION
In the name of God he begs He's on his knees not his legs Just give him your votes And he'll shower you with those plenty notes. Which do you...
PARADOX OF EXISTENCE
Time flies, men rise Words said, truth heard Less proofs Husbands. . . . Less fathers Wives. . . . Less mothers Students. . . . Less scholars Caveats abound,...
A WORD FOR THE FUTURE
In this our idle generation of whiners We have so many boastless doers Sheltering saplings in our forest Daily, their leaves they invest I see Olumide Olulu Holloway Lights word-candles...