Once upon a time In a country I call mine There rose a broom party Fed by change clothed sympathy An entity of old wine in a new skin A unity of souls, so selfishly mean Cobbled together by a sole interest To grab the treasury’s crest They swore to fight corruption The… Continue reading ONCE UPON A TIME by Uchenna Odukwu
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MONEY BECOMES ELECTION by Oluwaseyi Olatunji
In scramble of parties for the public purse, money becomes election_ and duties are forsaken. Yes! Our husband abdicates his onus, now they say he’s an imbecile, some say he don craze before before, perhaps, he has gone mad again, or, he was always mad, but, are we not to blame! Money becomes election, the… Continue reading MONEY BECOMES ELECTION by Oluwaseyi Olatunji
LOOK by Ewuola Damilola Michael
Look, I’m calm, I’m not armed But I have a voice –a very faint voice But please hear me out before I pass out. Look, look again, I am bleeding Bleeding virtues and morality away But I still have conscience–thinning out… Look,through the windows into the streets See how many are clueless and unaware Trading… Continue reading LOOK by Ewuola Damilola Michael
FALLING….CALLING
I am …….. calling to the father above to look me at altar of peace where my generation become my cross and the innocent blood my sin oh father save me . Lining on the way is a mess I tried to walk but filled with fence I trade all but not forth coming I… Continue reading FALLING….CALLING
TELL THEM by Omotayo Awoyemi
Tell them we can see them; The house of bones they live in, The sweats that flush their gutters, The sweats of our fathers and mothers, and The blood of our brothers on their lintels, That bought ’em passover from their trade; Trade of death. Tell them we’re louder; We’re louder in anger than Abel,… Continue reading TELL THEM by Omotayo Awoyemi
LET FATHER COME HOME by Oki Kehinde Julius
Tell father to come home Before Aso rock becomes a broken stones , His ageing voice we can’t hear on phone Aisha is tired of sleeping inside the other room alone. . Let father come home Before corruption breaks the nation’s backbone, Looters are fetching our treasury water with a basket, Intestines of the sweating… Continue reading LET FATHER COME HOME by Oki Kehinde Julius
THE BEAUTIFUL ONES by Martins Tomisin
Roused in the heart of night I sit and stare Boiling in the rhythm of thought On this road, Life lost, Life saved, Beauty flies by and by Pain flies by and by Hope dashed against stones Story meshed upon stories Beforehand, They pop up like a RAVEN That fed Elijah meat and bread. Feeding… Continue reading THE BEAUTIFUL ONES by Martins Tomisin
CHANGE by El Sane Ken Silencer
Ah! Men are wailing women are whooPing Children are crying no one is watching… Who is beating all? Recession! Father cried back when I talked broke… I wanted to meat mother, but her face said more bartered. Brethren! Have youse seen what I told youse, that a day is come- and here it is when… Continue reading CHANGE by El Sane Ken Silencer
RHETORICS OF THE TENSED by Oluwaseun Shedrack Akodu
That who shall hitherto save our paling green And save our scares of soul When would our boredom hood Turn-on our daylight dream Who shall saviour our twilight wolves,redeeming our ravaging hope. And who stole our glory thus giving us a glorious curse filling our feeding purse with tales of burst. who bought our souls… Continue reading RHETORICS OF THE TENSED by Oluwaseun Shedrack Akodu
POLITICALLY POLITICAL POLICIES by Kujembola Oluwaseun
This policy will be policed to be a politically political induction. Let me introduce myself, first. I am Comrade Ambassador NoWork ManChop; B.A, B.Ed, B.Sc, M.Sc, PhD, B.B.C, and of course, O level. I have been selected to preach this new policy as agreed upon by members of the dishonorable house of ASSembly. Article 1… Continue reading POLITICALLY POLITICAL POLICIES by Kujembola Oluwaseun