3 Poems │ VT Ahonsi
A Call Out of My Mind Palace I was never present in my body, wandering in the rain in a world that only saw my body and ignored me. It…More
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3 Poems │ Martins Deep
the echo of a wound after interment father, the path to your graves t r e t c h e s like an elastic placenta affixed to my lacrimal sac.your…More
What Does My Country Do With this Wall? │ Shedrack Opeyemi Akanbi │ Poetry
My country is on the moveBut her legs are those of a dipsomaniac. The torchbearer forgets to take his promises alongSo he leaves my country atThe gate of Canaan &Moves…More
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
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 │ 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 │ 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│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│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