Nature
NOTHING
In yesterday's crowd you stopped my heart's hurried pace. Through all that chaos you made mine a distinct face. The thoughts in your head echoed mine like a town crier's gong. My emotions you said filled you like harmattan breeze in your lungs. From across the room I felt we made a pact. Holding…
Quietly Brilliant by Sylvia Agamah
Oh, the Moon. Ready and poised to wax or wane, Lady Moon. You roll on to perfect gain. Half Moon. Is your incompleteness healing pain? Lady Moon, are you tired? You look so pale. Art thou quiet for weariness? Oh, you gentle wander Until you slowly fade. Dear Moon, quietly brilliant. Does the world know…
Nightingale
by Titilope Alake I want to be a beautiful bird Precisely..Odidere Odidere and its flashing wonders With its garments of bright colours Then I shall call a show in the Sun And invite all other birds to the contest And Okin Okin with its feathers of pride And Ogongo Ogongo and…
Poetry | ILE by Titilope Alake
Ile Awon kan ko ra won jo Won ni awon fe ba oke sota Oke oje Oke omu Oke ni ori eyin enin tin rin Some converged With the notion of conspiring against the mountain Mountain did not eat Mountain did not drink Mountain will win its assailants Aire patiko l’an gbo ohun eja lomi…
Cold World
The World is a cold Hard spinning globe Indifferent to tears If it would stop, just once Then, I’d know it cares Life must go on Yes, but why it must Dares no one say? Or is Time to blame For this Earth’s non-stop? Time is harsh The Watch constant reminds Tick,…
Naked Woman, Black Woman
Naked Woman, Black Woman Charcoal-coloured mid-wife of the newborn sun; Symphonic spumes of cuenza rippling on the eyeballs of crocodiles And the adder of tropical rainforest at the banquet of gustnado. You are that dark dimpled damsel with full-ripened breasts, Winding waist and hip of otter at atulogwu moonlight dance Who perfectly answered…
Double Rainbow
Two rainbows at a time?! I would definitely love to see a double rainbow. Check SFGate images for more as it happened in San Francisco. Photo by Scott Schiller
Never Fall In Love
by @daireenonline Never fall in love, so said the sage to me Tis only fools that play in the arena of emotions Where darkness abounds and loneliness preys Never, said he, be taken with the comeliness of a fair maiden. So I strove his mandate to keep Battling daily this war to win…
Faithful Thieves
The peace of Naija has metamorphosed Into a masquerade dancing to the drumbeats Of calamity and chaos The faithful thieves kept digging mother earth Until the huge blood bank Of helpless human souls Are ever silenced in the grave Of injustice and persecution They have driven blood thirsty wagons To dump victimised bones Into…
Life by Olajide Ojedokun
Life is a race, never to be erased. Life is a journey, filled with bitter and honey. It is a scripture packed with load’s of picture. It is a bus driving down the road to our future..