3 Poems │ Shitta Faruq
May We Find Light After the Dark the journey is not too far from our legs;because the dust is a milkwood crescentadjacent to a sturdy boulder. we seekthe path from…More
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3 Poems │ Gerald Obinna Ozota
Drinking Nectar Mama Nnuku!*It’s four years your daughter drank nectarand shut her gate over our faces _what kind of mother drinks and leave her children thirsty? I sit around this…More
3 Poems │ Ayonote-Yusuf Mariam
Heaven Is Not For Me I do not believe in heaven because what is heavenIf I could not loveThe trees, the breeze, the mist, you?That I would no longer wake…More
3 Poems │ Blessing C. Onyekachi
Smoke in My Lungs I never knew what it was until I saw it in my father’s hand;then I was just a lad curious about the world. And the waymy…More
3 Poems│Edwin Olu Bestman
Unbeknownst Some years ago,Dad kissed the house goodbye,Left me searching for the name of every line in my palm,Broken like an eagle whose wings have been shot,And my eyes drowning…More
3 Poems│Agumanu Kennedy
Souls on Rampage Commotion cracks human abodesOver unprecedented toll of deathsRunning and dying our experienceOn this untimely ravaging deathsNations panic in pains and perilsAllowing humanity dread its existenceVerily, verily, it…More
3 Poems│Philip Chijioke Abonyi
How to Discover Life in a Dead Body when you first heard a thing breaksit was your heart,the world tendered a seat on your head and every breathof the air…More
3 Poems│Akin-Ademola Emmanuel
Six Months of a Millennia //it’s just six months since cancer gripped my father’s lungs to the hospital bed & i keep dreaming of a bird who once drifted to…More
3 Poems│Haneefah Bello
Wearing a Body In inheriting clothes from my mother,I have begun to wear her body;In wearing her body,I have begun to unravel parts of me thatcarry questions I cannot form…More
3 Poems│Ezekanne F. Paschal
Prints prints are … left overs of dreamslike spittle in the mouth after an unsavoury meal or remnant meatstuck stubbornly in the crawprints are … dust that swirls but never…More