Tag: <span>poet</span>

THE LENIENT POEM AND SUBTLE MEANING (an analysis by Oludipe Oyin Samuel)

Staff WriterJuly 27, 2020September 16, 2020

A Big Airplane Crashed Into the Earth. I read Soyinka’s first collection of prison poems sometime in 2009. Categorically, I need not ‘push dumbfoundment to beg simplification; I hate a...

EPIDERMIS by Efe Ogufere

Efe OgufereAugust 20, 2017August 3, 2020

Beneath your skin, Dark and lovely connubial vials Hold ancient songs buried in liquid deep A serenade in the Serengeti A sunrise on distant hills Shedding light on black and...

POETRY STAR WRITERS

POET OF THE WEEK: RULES OF THE GAME by Alozor Michael Ikechukwu

Alozor Michael IkechukwuJuly 18, 2017August 21, 2017

One at a time is the step of life Take a leap when you get to a pit Else, down the pit you'll dive When you resurface your bearing is...

POETRY

NO POETRY by Efe Ogufere

Efe OgufereJune 10, 2017September 10, 2017

No Poetry could… Describe the beads of sweat, That form rivulets on Lamy’s back like dew. Explain how joy overflows In tears from eyes that have held sadness. Fathom how...

POETRY

THE BLOCK by Ademigbuji Aishat

Ademigbuji aishatMarch 2, 2017

Come to me. I want you to come to me I’ve got a new pen and a blank sheet But you’re not coming Please come to me You not coming...

POETRY

I AM NOT A POET by Tukur Ridwan Ishola

Tukur Ridwan IsholaSeptember 29, 2016July 16, 2017

is it because i steal slates off tales scribbled by scribes of ages not stale which drew them to the world as sages; and i claimed what they owned only...

POETRY

I HAVE STOPPED WRITING by Samuel Amazing Ayoade

Samuel Amazing AyoadeJune 11, 2016August 21, 2017

Writers don't die, they live eternal Poets too are prophets, whose words are hefty Three thousand years, and I'll still be here So open your ears, and take heed to...

POETRY

PEN AND PAGES by Benjamin Anabaraonye

Benjamin AnabaraonyeMay 12, 2016July 22, 2017

Pen and pages man's mind engages deeply in thoughts..... great words are brought. Pen and pages good writing encourages young and old,men and women for there's power in the pen....

POETRY

POET OF THE WEEK: “POETRY… IF WELL HANDLED, COULD LIFT MOUNTAINS” — ERIATA ORIBHABOR

Sam De PoetMay 12, 2016July 16, 2017

Eriata Oribhabor is a poet and frontline promoter of Naija languej. He started off writing poetry in the indigenous Nigerian Pidgin currently being standardised as Naija languej. Writing in the...

POETRY

RHYTHMIC WAVES by Jesse Asonze

Jesse AsonzeMay 9, 2016July 15, 2017

Heartbeats fluctuating like tandem Pulsating in sync with attached electrocardiograms Eyelids fluttering in short bursts of reflexes All culminating in rhythm and poetry Sinners occupied by wicked acts Homosexuals impaling...

Tag: poet

THE LENIENT POEM AND SUBTLE MEANING (an analysis by Oludipe Oyin Samuel)

EPIDERMIS by Efe Ogufere

POET OF THE WEEK: RULES OF THE GAME by Alozor Michael Ikechukwu

NO POETRY by Efe Ogufere

THE BLOCK by Ademigbuji Aishat

I AM NOT A POET by Tukur Ridwan Ishola

I HAVE STOPPED WRITING by Samuel Amazing Ayoade

PEN AND PAGES by Benjamin Anabaraonye

POET OF THE WEEK: “POETRY… IF WELL HANDLED, COULD LIFT MOUNTAINS” — ERIATA ORIBHABOR

RHYTHMIC WAVES by Jesse Asonze

CỌ́N-SCÌÒ MAGAZINE: ‘IDENTITY’ [ISSUE 2, VOL. 1 | JULY 2022]

CONTRIBUTE