As we retire for the day The work of the day we have accomplished The god of the harvest had smiled on us Fruits of many kind filled our barns As we await a new journey of the earth around the sun Planning to begin another farming season The enemy lay their hands on weapons… Continue reading AS WE LAY OUR HEADS TO REST by Bijimi Daniel Meindous
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STREAMS by Bamigbola Silas
Like a stream flowing Progressing and changing its tides, Not stereotyped, Unwilling to recede. Hoping for other streams to coincide In order to form oceans.. Just like a tree and other trees, We can make a forest. Drops becoming a stream, Streams becoming a river, Rivers becoming a sea, Seas becoming an ocean. Together with… Continue reading STREAMS by Bamigbola Silas
HOW I CONCLUDED BEFORE IT PELT by El Sane Ken Silencer
In the morning, I looked and Saw the sky;so bright shinning I, heard my mind and i cinched That ’twas never going to rain I said it to be ablessed day- A blessed day it later alter to And before it could clock twelve I looked at the sky again- cloudy Then a heavy wind… Continue reading HOW I CONCLUDED BEFORE IT PELT by El Sane Ken Silencer
RAIN by Joshua Levites
Yesterday, The sky winked at us and we snubbed; Friends gisted, we feasted. The sky’s beauty, We treated with scorn. Sooner we realized The gracious threat of her graciousness And we were nearly torn, In hurriedness. To escape, The overwhelming smile foreseen. Only. It was late, already The sky exposed her teeth We saw the… Continue reading RAIN by Joshua Levites
RAIN by Saidu Mark Jatau
Oh! My soul leaped for joy watching the cloud cry today, She must have been beaten black and blue as I watched her tears pouring out uncontrollable today. Even the ground could not hide her joy She has been deprived of water to drink for so long, Now there is chill in the air and the song to play… Continue reading RAIN by Saidu Mark Jatau
EVERY DAY A SUMMER ONE by Adeolu Emmanuel Adesanya
Every day a summer one Let the sky go grey with grieves And the clouds clog the space I will make today my day I will make the day, a summer one. Every day a summer one Let the rain pour in torrential affairs And the snow falling with stormy ease In my heart I… Continue reading EVERY DAY A SUMMER ONE by Adeolu Emmanuel Adesanya
RAIN by Ogunsanya Enitan Olalekan
Rain,you this thin fat line running through the earth surface causing ridges’ growth. Thin you are tho mighty, Few you come but larger works, Feeble you look yet flogs hardly, Gentility smells in you though tough. Wet strokes running down from a pregnant cloud, Heavily causing havoc juxtaposing nutrients. Rain! Your helpfulness yield me income,… Continue reading RAIN by Ogunsanya Enitan Olalekan
THE RAIN IN MAY
On your sneezes, farmers are bent to soar Whenever the moon turns to a count of four Regretting and rejoicing, we take you in It rains in May, when the heaven frowns And ties the weather in a log of clowns The sign the rainbow makes Makes us sad-happy, witnessing the rains in May Mother… Continue reading THE RAIN IN MAY
RAINS
The clouds are too busyweeping to see that we aresoaked to our ragged pantsand our genitals have retractedinto their shells, like irked snails.Whose lips shall then mouth the needed protest, being already busy with mournful mumblings? Of which shall I tell you,now that you bother to inquireabout these endless rains; One threadlike, one windyOne saltened,… Continue reading RAINS
QUEEN OF THE SEASON
Here she comes… With her ever charming smile. A smile, bright enough to earn her the world and none will dare complain… She is dressed in royal gown,a mixture of purity with the lock of the iris… Ah, she is beautiful as ever… Who wouldn’t fall for her smile? show me a man that would… Continue reading QUEEN OF THE SEASON