Author: nantygreens
nantygreens
Creative works (literature, art and culture) emerging from Nigeria.
Codeine Diet by Dami Ajayi
Codeine Diet
Online is a weak cyber-metaphor for high
But you already know
Like you know blue is still the colour of the sky
Portrait of a Black Woman Considering Her Future by Shirley Jones-Luke
She knows that she sits
on foreign soil, Americanah
when I look at her picture
she is black like me
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Garden by Sean Stewart
Seeds are planted in barren soil
by rough tattered hands,
while dreaming of outgrowing
This foreign land
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This Heart of Mine by Ezinne Ogwumah
I have too much sympathy for the world,
That I fear that I may be blinded from the fact;
The heart of man is wicked and the world breeds evil.
Just as the man who sits on the road,
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Cotyledon by Emma Turner
Cotyledon by Emma Turner
I am half girl half boy
And it is ok to be ugly here
Skirts flapping where we walk
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