Beneath a million rose of pain I’ll find solace in our joy’s gain I know my feelings cannot be vain I’ll let my soul be uprightly sane So as not to end my life not having a gain… Beneath a million roses of pain I chose sanity of what life really is I’ll love hope… Continue reading BENEATH A MILLION ROSES OF PAIN by Oyelami Yetunde Elizabeth
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SCARS by Mayor Jake
My heart is pegged with scars. Each scar, telling different tales. Beautifully bitter scars looking like gars That are made to live within the dales. I don’t want to tell you the story Of how I got emotionally injured. Though it may sound and look gory, But I’m presently uninjured. I’ve placed myself behind the… Continue reading SCARS by Mayor Jake
A LONG NIGHT by Saidu Mark Jatau
The moment you walked through, I saw a broken soul like a smashed fruit. Pain took you straight to the bed side, Were you devoured her pictures sitting on the wall side. You sobbed your soul from the inside out, Like a beating child hindered a cry. I remember asking what the matter was, Your… Continue reading A LONG NIGHT by Saidu Mark Jatau
UNCEASING RAIN by Amao Williams Praise
Inscriptions of loss dwell in my punctured heart, Inconsolably my tears fall. Who will answer my crumbled call? Inscriptions of loss; written on my broken heart. The tears of the cloud frowned as it angrily fell on me, The gloomy cloud cared not to remember me; From its womb I grew – Born, loved and… Continue reading UNCEASING RAIN by Amao Williams Praise
BROKEN PROMISES by Amao Williams Praise
Hopping, walking on broken promises; Stale promises flew helplessly in the air. Diving, swimming in a bloody ocean; Stabbed with a ‘daguar’ of envy and jealousy. Running, jogging on the streets of hatred; Streets filled with futile zombies. Riding, driving with passengers of shattered dreams; Vehicles labelled with ‘broken oaths’. Soaring, flying with birds of… Continue reading BROKEN PROMISES by Amao Williams Praise
DEATH, WHY? by Theophilus Femi Alawonde
for the young ones who have died before their time (Alawonde Lois. I., Dare Sax, Ayantoye Ayantosho and others) Why do you lay your cold fingers, on the ones who ought to last longer? Why do you choose to take away, the unripe ones who love to stay? Why leave us in so great a… Continue reading DEATH, WHY? by Theophilus Femi Alawonde
LIFE IS A CROOK by Agbaakin O. Jeremiah
Life is a crook and though you pour him drinks and fill his bed with feathers and whores. It’s the uneven face of the sky it’s cloudy in Pompei as fog sneezes over the city; she bleeds rain there. But our crops thirst and the squirrel’s nails blunt From digging holes yearlong here the sky… Continue reading LIFE IS A CROOK by Agbaakin O. Jeremiah
A MAN AND HIMSELF by Kukogho Iruesiri Samson
if a man should go out looking for himself would he search inside the kitchen shelf inside a frothy bottle robbed of its waters or in the pockets of his pissed trousers see, the man’s ears are itching for his voice over the cacophony of humanity’s noise should he wear earphones made from steel climb… Continue reading A MAN AND HIMSELF by Kukogho Iruesiri Samson
ECHANTED by Michael Inioluwa Oladele
We heard the whispering song, Together with the beating gong. Its sound echoed through the reed The reed of an opening woodwind. In the greyness of isolated time The echo bursted inside of us Like a great harmonic chord- Of a stringed percussion instrument. Encapsulated in the rhythm of the song We danced and gyrated… Continue reading ECHANTED by Michael Inioluwa Oladele
ONE DAY… by Akinbode Oluwatobi Israel
I sit on this sick chair, Rolling dice upside down, Calculating disfigured figures, The answers, a sticky solution. The pin that pierced my sole, Made my hope to hop, Only a surgeon will give a treat, Perfectly well. Was told my time will come, Suddenly like His second coming, My tears will see it and… Continue reading ONE DAY… by Akinbode Oluwatobi Israel