Category: Poetry

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Two Poems

  • September 7, 2013

by Nnorom Azuonye   BROKEN SCALES DOT DOT DOT. Ikhide’s scale is broken. My scale is thriving really well and will never break. God forbid bad thing. Ikhide is putting[…]

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A Letter to Dumi

  • August 11, 2013

(A story of two old lovers meeting again after 15years) By Ayodele Olofintuade   Do you remember the night we first met? It was at your birthday party, you were[…]

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Five Poems by Elnathan John

  • August 11, 2013

DINNER TIME Do we sometimes bask in our delusions, And become tourists in lands that never were? -Anon. I am not fooled By this cool wind In my face I[…]

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Two Poems

  • August 11, 2013

By Kola Adeniyi   OUR COUNTRY HOME (Thought about the SAP of 1986 in Nigeria, which has thrown Nigeria’s economy into the abyss)   Our country home. Three of us[…]

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Four Cowries

  • July 20, 2013

poems by Ikhide Ikheloa _____________   DM (For you, Dambudzo Marechera, for things that make no sense, because we are afraid…) Bloody December.Ogun prowls the catacombs. And myrmidons of darkness[…]

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Anthills

  • May 4, 2013

by Carl Terver   *FOR CHINUA ACHEBE* [After Anthills of the Savannah ‘. . . our fathers were defeated but they tried’ p128] I fondle for ways to speak in[…]

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Saro Wiwa’s Waiting War

  • May 4, 2013

(for Ken Saro Wiwa) By Emmanuel Uweru Okoh   My keen cry to Kenule: I, Fubara, of disjointed Fishnet and gaping boat, from the land of kernel Back feeling and staggering[…]

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Tu Puem

  • May 4, 2013

by Edwin Eriata Oribhabor  Waka go wie? Yo iye de wok so? yu no si wetin de shele? hie wetin de folo? hu wan ‘‘wait’’ mek i puo fo im[…]

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Two Poems

  • March 8, 2013

by Sunday Akonni Moshood   CIVILIAN TO POLICE   Hey, non-prestigious friend! You clad in dark uniform attire, Glued to your gluttonous body Like a bird to its feather! As[…]