Category: Poetry

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Bola

  • February 9, 2013

‘s room ‘s neighbours to trees. The walls are lemon green. Gently the curtains blew as if they’re clothes on two walking the dusk browned beach. A wave of her[…]

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Three Poems

  • February 9, 2013

By Richard Ali Hunger Hunger is to reach arms across the sea, there’s a distance Over which words will not keep, excepting formulae Like fish and dream and surrender. I’ve[…]

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Two Poems

  • February 9, 2013

By Omohan EBHODAGHE Footpaths to decay Hear the lutes and throbs of the fertilizer craze from the look-alike pale West coming with non-everlasting zest, sinking free also into their kinsmen’s diseased[…]

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Three Places

  • January 11, 2013

 by Peter Akinlabi   Oshun Who now remembers the dance from which she emerged, with dual prize of royalty and sadness? Maybe the king-dancer himself, towering above all memory, a[…]

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Kwara

  • January 11, 2013

by Adebiyi Olusolape __ For the late Dr. Oluṣola Saraki, Mallam Adamu Ciroma, British Leyland and 285,000 naira in bribes. I A river is a mobile culture which always is[…]

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Aluu 4

  • January 11, 2013

by Seyi Ojenike When the mist is gone, And the stitches finished, But wounds not healed, My sub-conscious, painting the scene As I quiver in fear Of the human race.[…]

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Six Poems

  • December 1, 2012

by Hajo Isa ________ SILENT PAGE   I sit on a silent page   Blank lines run on empty.   Inspiration is a marvel for the dull,   A clowning[…]

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Three Poems by Kolade Ajayi

  • November 30, 2012

The Bomber Drowned THE BOMBER TOO DROWNED, in his ripple Among the heads, at the belt’s attunement to rage, at the last dead chant– HEAD TO THE SCHEDULED FEAST ON[…]

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Pollen

  • October 22, 2012

By Benson Eluma   O Virginia, possessed Of the instinct of a plant On the riverbed, this body Knows not the symmetry Of the oar passing, but shivers With the[…]