SPEAKING PEN FOR MY INFIRMITIES by Olajuwon Joseph Olumide
In this unelapsed trying time, I yet woke As life's trials weigh heaviness in my mouth. Too many beffudled voices, grappling within, My garrulous lips could utter none! So that...
NOISY SILENCE by Cletus Nnaemeka
Ask a starving fellow to fast? Isn't better to fast from starving? Should I expect the crippled to walk fast? Would he even move an inch without me helping? Why...
IF I WASNT HERE by Mayowa Ifedayo
If I wasn't here Perchance I'd be an angel Looking downward with a pristine stare Ostensibly, intimately with Gabriel If I wasn't here I would feel no pain I would...
FEAR by Saidu Mark Jatau
My doors, windows, flung open, greeted by obscure darkness. My mind ruminates around her presence, Because brightness took a long walk. The night is still not awaken yet, Nor am...
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...
WHO WILL REMIND ME OF WHO I AM by Bamas Sinach Victoria
Who harangues for the Rauti? I have reminded people of who they are I have run alongside them as they charge into battle I kept up their courage by singing...
ADDICTION by Cletus Nnaemeka
Passion overrides reasoning After the fight, you just come out without winning The mouth of guilt start screaming The pains keep on deepening Self-pity comes around knocking Those voices come...
THE BATTLE WITHIN by Joseph Omojuwa
If I cry gently or if I smile, whoever thinks the smile on my face Is benign,must be careful,be careful of the end of days There, is a stain, a...
THE MIRROR, THE CAT by Joseph Omojuwa
I saw the cat sitting next to the grocery shop! Stationed strategically to suit attention of passersby. A cat once well fed, begging and crying for a 'raindrop', Appealing to...
SIXTH SENSE by Yugo Gabriel Egboluche
Who says there was silence in the dawn? When all I hear is the stillness, of cherubs and seraphs whispering through light. Who says there was darkness? When all I...