Three poems
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 in tears of sorrow. The grave has graduated from hungry to greedy,Taking away precious stones for consumption.Death is never a retired soldier,He comes whenever the…
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 has comeIndignation of human livesReaping lives unreplaced in timeUnder the scary pandemic of Covid-19Seizing all vulnerable to mother earth. Naked Dance With the drop of…
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 comes with heaviness.memories in the color of butterfliesand ever shining rosesfly around your head as youlose yourself in drops of liquor.eyes in full possession of…
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 the vales of perdition– now clipped of it’s feathers & buried in it’s piles of abandonment// there are so much of his addictive tobacco pipes…
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 on my tongue.What is broken may be lost. & what is lost may never be found. We lay side by side on a worn couch…
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 craw prints are … dust that swirls but never settlesreminding us of all we wish forgottencoating out lies with truth anddestroying our false affirmations of wellness prints are … sins of long agothat…
3 Poems│Oghenetega Grey
Scattered Verses of My Letter to God iii. I remember the day you died,It was the same evening pa lost his name.We called him a body.The sky stained himself with mami’s blackened unwashed pots.My eyes carved themselves into empty hollow windows,Painting themselves red. i. Dear God.Why am I surrounded by broken bodies with chipped edges?…
3 Poems│Solomon Sunday (The Pen Healer)
Grief The orbital between a bleeding heart & watery eyesis like the affair between day & night. The former is the aftermath of the later. There are moments that bring you to your kneesLike, when your heart is broken by someone you love /disappointed by the happenstance of life. Your faith is wreckedYour hope is shattered…
3 Poems│Abuoya Eruot
Bewilderedness there are days you wander in between trunks of trees in the darkest forest imbedded in your veins. you wished plucking your two lens out of their sockets; wanting not to behold avid zombies climbing the stoops of your spine. sometimes you’d make a wish of escaping from the cells in your body.…
3 Poems│Nwaoha Chibuzor Anthony
Light and Darkness I’ve gotten you a tomb surrounded by twenty one flowers – Anonymous. (I) I am a demon fallen in love with an angel. Ha! Hii! Ho! While growing up, I was taught how to give varieties of monosyllabic chuckles that paint my face neat and harmful. I am ready to write a…