Poetry
from different poets in Nigeria and around the world. Read inspiring poems from contributing Poets to inspire you.
We publish not only contemporary Nigerian poets but also African poets and their poetry.
from different poets in Nigeria and around the world. Read inspiring poems from contributing Poets to inspire you.
We publish not only contemporary Nigerian poets but also African poets and their poetry.
My Root is
a vegetation of tasteless
greed
made edible for arid mouths
Friend, you say, and I remember Mississippi,
that city shaped like a gondola. I remember
writing about boats carved like the elbows
Mother is pregnant with a sixth child and gives birth to a girl again.
Father drinks himself blank in the backyard,
Imagine an air filled blue balloon,
chased by a little girl
reciting rhymes in glee
… and I saw a new heaven and a new earth
for the first heaven and the first earth
had passed away