Tag: <span>Poetry</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...

ESSAYS

“FACEBOOK IS NOT A SAFE PLACE TO POST YOUR POEMS” & OTHER ISSUES FOR NIGERIAN POETS

Kukogho Iruesiri SamsonJune 1, 2020August 3, 2020

Again, by saving your works and releasing them only on foreign platforms, you are inadvertently taking everything away from us and making us have to borrow access. Right now, we can no longer read anything from most of our good poets unless we first access them from foreign platforms.

POETRY

MAMA TEARS (a poem by Adigun Temitope Idealism & and Odey Goodness Ogeyi)

Adigun Temitope IdealismMarch 11, 2019March 31, 2019

what else shall we give to this world, if not the bowl of tears that watered our children’s graveyard?

POETRY

BLAME IT ON THE MONEY by Emmiasky Ojex

Emmiasky OjexNovember 15, 2018

Look at our daughters They now show no ill in laying with men old as their fathers Look at our sons Nothing is holding them back from scamming the green...

WRITING TIPS

THE CONCEPT OF GODHOOD IN POETS: HOW POETS BECOME GODS an essay by Aremu Adams Adebisi

Aremu Adams AdebisiJune 1, 2018August 3, 2020

There is something about poets that makes them gods. It is not the relativism of their works or their verisimilitude. It is not the aptitude of their word usage or...

POETRY

A PEN WIELDER’S PLEDGE

Sam De PoetMarch 10, 2018

I fight the good fight of the ink Cut my losses I polish my shoes blue And talk in rhymes, the truth. I am a Pen-Wielder! -- Nonso Davies Donatus...

POETRY

WHEN I AM NO MORE by Stefn Sylvester Anyatonwu

Stefn Sylvester AnyatonwuJanuary 21, 2018April 21, 2018

When I am no more I will still be like the sting of a bee flesh deep in your mind leaving behind traces of my existence. When I am no...

ESSAYS

YOU DON’T NEED SADNESS TO WRITE GOOD POEMS: A NOTE BY ADEBAYO KOLAWOLE SAMUEL

Kolawole Samuel AdebayoJanuary 14, 2018August 3, 2020

This idea that the best pieces of poetry always come from sadness or brokenness or some inner chaos isn't true at all. Because of this wrong ideology, many intentionally put...

WRITING TIPS

THE POET AND HIS POEM: POETRY AS A SLICE OF LIFE

Kukogho Iruesiri SamsonJanuary 5, 2018August 3, 2020

Poetry is a slice of life. If poetry is a slice of life? Whose life? I have noticed of recent that my poem are increasingly being mistaken as autobiographical. People...

WRITING TIPS

DEMYSTIFYING MUSE: A BRIEF TREATISE ON POETRY-MUSE DISSIMILITUDE

Aremu Adams AdebisiNovember 22, 2017August 3, 2020

Poetry is not inborn. Poetry is not hereditary and cannot be inherited. It does not flow in the gene or trait of any god-poet, assumed or established. Poetry does not...

Tag: Poetry

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

“FACEBOOK IS NOT A SAFE PLACE TO POST YOUR POEMS” & OTHER ISSUES FOR NIGERIAN POETS

MAMA TEARS (a poem by Adigun Temitope Idealism & and Odey Goodness Ogeyi)

BLAME IT ON THE MONEY by Emmiasky Ojex

THE CONCEPT OF GODHOOD IN POETS: HOW POETS BECOME GODS an essay by Aremu Adams Adebisi

A PEN WIELDER’S PLEDGE

WHEN I AM NO MORE by Stefn Sylvester Anyatonwu

YOU DON’T NEED SADNESS TO WRITE GOOD POEMS: A NOTE BY ADEBAYO KOLAWOLE SAMUEL

THE POET AND HIS POEM: POETRY AS A SLICE OF LIFE

DEMYSTIFYING MUSE: A BRIEF TREATISE ON POETRY-MUSE DISSIMILITUDE

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

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