Category: Poetry

Lit Mag · Non-fiction · Poetry

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Three Pieces

  • January 31, 2014

by Uche Peter Umez —— —— The Way We Are    #1. You remember when we used to play in the rain? As if I could ever forget. You used[…]

Lit Mag · Poetry

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Shades of Ochre

  • January 31, 2014

by Martins Kiibaati If you ask him where he’s been He’ll say around, It takes too many words To say what he’s done and seen He’s been to heaven He’s[…]

Lit Mag · Poetry

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The Sun Pours Libation

  • December 30, 2013

By Geosi Gyasi   at the burial grounds man confronts the earth and a chthonic power vociferate to the world under;   a convocation of elders pick themselves up long[…]

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Our Fathers Are Gone

  • November 9, 2013

By Ivor W. Hartmann   Our fathers are gone Lost to the abysmal sea Swirling in a sargasso of plastic   Our mothers are silent Lassitude wreathed And buried them[…]

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A Voyage of Kinks

  • November 9, 2013

by Kolade Ajayi   It often returns, astride memories moment that axed to exes facing a life to its exits; and the menace that was penance, heaved along city corners–[…]

Lit Mag · Poetry

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Communion

  • October 5, 2013

by Kunle Aduloju   I am back To the rhythms of my blood Presence and portion That was… Which  still stands;   I am tuned To mysteries in the hidden[…]

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Three Poems by Peter Akinlabi

  • October 5, 2013

Night I have thought these importunate ruins painting your face brighter as something sinuous,   something that is capable of rousing a broken ghost to the will of flesh  […]

Lit Mag · Poetry

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E Go Beta

  • October 5, 2013

by Victor Chris   “E go beta” has made us bitter. Our image of virtual wonder; The tales of bedtime have bored Our ears sored. And light has revealed the[…]