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 lost. Slow and steady is the race of life Never look back ‘cos it’s lost and gone When you meet setbacks, make a dive Bypass… Continue reading POET OF THE WEEK: RULES OF THE GAME by Alozor Michael Ikechukwu
Tag: Wisdom
FOOLISH ME! by Dominic Ayegba Okoliko
I toil night and day leaving no room for rest; For I thought to myself, ‘Rest is for those whom idleness have impressed’. So I turned an owl at night and a jaguar during the day But who gets to enjoy the toils? When hours of labour take its toils? Foolish me! I have fancy… Continue reading FOOLISH ME! by Dominic Ayegba Okoliko
DO NOT COME HOME by Micheal Ace
Son Do not come home Until the moon sees your shadows When the sun brings them in the day Do not come home Until the sun sees your tears When they bathe your face at night . Son Do not come home Until you find meaning to the poetry Written on your palm Until you… Continue reading DO NOT COME HOME by Micheal Ace
THE WORLD IS A TREE by El Sane Ken Silencer
The world is a tree Humans are The branches: the leaves And the seeds… The world is a tree- A tree that fruit many fruits. Eatable and uneatable; Cherish-able, be em or without nuts… The world is a tree- A tree standing tall, But very terse; Eyes reaches and hands withal… The world is a… Continue reading THE WORLD IS A TREE by El Sane Ken Silencer
EVE by Oladele Deborah Olamide
Wisdom is wisdom yet desired wisdom cos her meeting with non-wisdom made her think she was no wisdom and wisdom called wisdom no-wisdom wisdom listened to non-wisdom wisdom considered non-wisdom’s speech wisdom saw no-wisdom sprouting from a tree and wisdom called no-wisdom wisdom wisdom took in no-wisdom so as to be made wisdom wisdom forgot… Continue reading EVE by Oladele Deborah Olamide
WHY DIE AVERAGE?: Kuti Israel Ifeoluwa
Why die ye AVERAGE Like an unfinished BEVERAGE Making issues against you become LEVERAGED Why let the initiatives in you DECAY Why not get the creativity REPLAYED And find a way by which its glory can be REGAINED Why stand ye there all the day IDLE Why not think of solving a particular RIDDLE And… Continue reading WHY DIE AVERAGE?: Kuti Israel Ifeoluwa
WHEN I’M DEAD: Covenanted Chimnonso
Prologue: Dear child, if you’re reading my biography Sometime in the near future, When I’m dead and dailies are eulogizing me, And you pick up this poem to read, Know it was for you. I When my weak limbs give way to weakness And the weak lids of pained eyes part in showers And your… Continue reading WHEN I’M DEAD: Covenanted Chimnonso
WHOSE FIRE: Kukogho Iruesiri Samson
TABLET OF TRUTH: Benjamin Elemide
TABLET OF TRUTH (Letter to my sister) Oyinlola, Money can never worth the sweetness of honey Neither can volume of sweat determine income. Honey, indeed is honour, in truth, dignity; Its sweetness subjects tongues to temporal lust, Its scarcity pockets minds with intense desires: Guard yours jealously, you won’t regret you do. Oyinlola, Time comes… Continue reading TABLET OF TRUTH: Benjamin Elemide
MISS PELL: Pweenx Orlieturn Hadarms
A current lady in kings school Who everyone had thought was cool. She lived downtown the street of Sloke Whose pathway’s dirts can make one choke. She had some chubby mini clothes And chubby hands and chubby nose. In pink she dressed in flashing gown That disagreed with shoes of brown. And skirts she wore… Continue reading MISS PELL: Pweenx Orlieturn Hadarms