God Kissed Me
God kissed me And I froze. In my filth and rage he held my hand. With a garment soaked in blood he cleaned me. And...
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VISION
Vision… What keeps a man awake at night? Probably insomnia. Hopefully not. Rather a fire that stirs from the inside – Vision. Vision… Seeing the...
Abiola Ojo
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Vow
It is not easy, to let go Habits that relieve my stress more For me the guilt hurts more than bore With each repeat, myself...
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AQUAPHOBIA
Tremors arrest my entire muscles,Fears handcuff all my thoughtsMind numbingChill spurringWhispering that you might land beneath the water The beauty of the blue seaAttract like...
Rashidat Fashina
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Nov 11
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The End of an Era
The end of an era Tobi-Makinde Melody I’ve always heard,That time waits for no one.I admit, I never truly understood it.I just knew the words...
Melody Tobi-Makinde
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Oct 22
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Inú fùfù; RAGE
RAGEIn the deepest part of my heart,Emotions put aside,All thought put on holdWith folded arms and steady eyes Neither fear nor surpriseLook upon them as...
Rashidat Fashina
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Oct 16
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If a stammerer could sing
My stories, the songs I sang for myself, the blessings and worries in my world. I fought some, I loose few, and I am still...
OLa Jeremiah
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Oct 4
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We Love You
This is an appreciation poem,My way of saying thank you.Thank you for being here,For walking through the dark days that stole your light.Thank you for...
Michael Ordia
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Sep 21
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1 min read
Don’t judge me for I know not
Knowledge is a tree with countless fruits And mastery is but one deep bite Debates and paradigms abound And even the expert’s stance Is...
OLUWAYOMI ALAO
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Sep 18
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TO LOVE AND TO HOLD
And a poetry I compose for you. Elegant and soothing to my perturbed nerves. And your gracious imagery I hold dearly In my brain stuffed...
Only If I Can See
If the eye can see the heart that bleed,Our talk be less and Cry be more,That what we see so gruesome ends,And we may sleep...
Nathanael Haert
in Poetry
Jul 26
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I am a witch
I AM A WITCH. Late 1990’s, I was initiated into witchdom by ỌBA ÀJÍKÍ,I grew up learning incantations as in 91st chapter of PSALM,I can’t...
ESTHER DAMILOLA AJIGBOTOSHO
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Jul 20
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PRAY FOR ME
I’m not strong enough to frown anymore, I’m not interested in even finding that strength, not when my face looks like an wrinkled sculpture, but…...
Lawrence Abiaobo
in Poetry
Jul 17
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Dusk
As the day wears offAnd brightness dimsThe afternoon slowly fadesAnd the sun journeys onTo provide light to other realms Dusk settles and night approachesThe night...
Imabong Faminu
in Poetry
Jul 16
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B O S O M F I E N D S
No matter how you try, There are people to make you cry People who knot your heart into a tie And stain your soul...
HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD
Dad Protective Dependable Encouraging Disciplining Trusting Hero Backbone Coach Inspiration Hardworking Loving Supporting Powerful Priceless First Love ...
Oluwatomisin Opeyemi Ilesanmi
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Jul 13
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A R C H F I E N D
As I weep on my bed, I feel the devil carress my head “Hush Child! Use your eye shield . There’s more from where that...
Diamanté Poem
Leisure Games Sports Fun Exciting Enjoyable Friends Comrades Colleagues Workers Boring Stressful Tedious Office Files Work...
Michael Forever
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Jul 9
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Diamente poem
Death Sweet scary Interesting sorting evicting exiting Claws, paws drug life Shaping taming cuddling welcoming Assertive strong Life ...
Money!
Money! Important Real. Luxuriating Lubricating Liberating Charity Stocks Origami Planes Printing Planning Pledging Blank Fragile.. Paper...
Austine Oketch
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Jul 8
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LOVE ME
LOVE ME BY PRINCESS.E. AKENZUA They literally engage themselves, They push their partner into marriage, Their partner sees them as...
princess Akenzua
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Jul 6
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HUSTLE
HUSTLE BY PRINCESS.E. AKENZUA They sit there, convinced, They don’t think about their future, They are okay being the tail, ...
princess Akenzua
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Jul 4
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ASHAWO! ASHAWO!
She walks down the streetLips painted red, thighs jiggling Nails on fleek, tanned skinYou call her ashawo, ashawo Anklets wrapped smugly round her legs...
Challenge Your Fear
My worriesMy fearsClouded by the thoughts of tomorrowStill wondering what the future might unfoldMy sorroundingMy spaceLiving in the fear of the unknownTrying to utilize my...
The African Heritage
Africans, all of us, from the he to the she Black (and beautiful) were we made to be Chosen by God himself to be Different...
Michael Forever
in Poetry
Jun 17
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1 min read
Queens don’t complain
And to think that he loved me,Boy was I so wrong,Choosing himself over and over again,Did I not see that coming?Even when everything was so...
Abecedarian poem
A long time ago Before time came into view Centuries before civilization Decades and milenias it was Earth witnessed the sweat of their struggle Fate...
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Jun 17
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Xenas!
Abandoned child,swerving in lost misery Build your walls and rip the shame Callous men have ripped your pride Devouring every sense of purpose Endangering every...
patricia eleanyauyo
in Poetry
Jun 16
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1 min read
HEARTBREAK=HOPE
Ayo was homeBut Bode wasn’t thereCrying heavily, she sat downDay by day, it had become her regular habitEveryone knew about it nowFoolish girl, that’s what...
Oluwatomisin Opeyemi Ilesanmi
in Poetry
Jun 16
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1 min read
Fight for freedom
A city of exploit, want, power drunkiness and dysfunctionalism.Built on the foundation of inequality and uncertainties in all areas.Commissioned by privileged self centered individuals.Drunk and...
Africa was born in ME
Africa was born in me Be luck, Curse or Death; Energy, Faith and hope will Give me strength. Have I ever been Jealous,...
Aymar Audry
in Poetry
Jun 16
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1 min read
Zeitgeist
Across the board…Being in the present, being in the NowContinues to be the antidote to chaosDelegated from among other practices Experienced and expressed by manyFar...
Austine Oketch
in Poetry
Jun 16
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1 min read
Peace, Be still.
PEACE, BE STILL.An atmosphere where there is an unsafe euphoria, fear has gripped in, no one to turn to apart from Him.All you...
Beloved Son
We failed with our plans, We ashamed our clans, We destroyed our plans, But evil works gains. We ignored advices, We ruined promises, We ...
Aymar Audry
in Poetry
Jun 14
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1 min read
BLACK IS EVERYTHING GOOD
My people, my race Labelled irrelevant for the color of our face Made to submit our pride Not just of late but over a length...
Priceless Onyegbuna
in Poetry
Jun 14
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2 min read
#stoptheinjustice✊
Don’t act like it’s normal. It’s not Okay. Injustice is the new Order of the day. It pains me a lot to see it. I...
Michael Forever
in Poetry
Jun 14
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1 min read
Freedom Is Coming Tomorrow
Fault finds itself on others, never our own shoulders Redirecting blame, further tangling the chains that hold us Ever wondered that maybe we are tackling...
Austine Oketch
in Poetry
Jun 14
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1 min read
No justice No peace
“No justice No peace” They don’t see us as humans, they see us in their hateful eyes.They beat...
Kelvin E Tarr
in Poetry
Jun 14
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1 min read
Be Good
Within the shadows she stood,Tears like crystals hit the floor where she stood. So innocent was she but yet so misunderstood,Her silence speaking so loudly...
Shedrack Emmanuel
in Poetry
Jun 14
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1 min read
Like a flower
Like a flower we blossom Like a flower we will, with bright colors and crooked branches yet we know that the beauty shall fade. What...
patricia eleanyauyo
in Poetry
Jun 11
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1 min read
The Writer’s Prayer
A writer I seek to beA writer I amOthers may think differentlyOr deem me unfitBut a writer I am in word and in deed The...
Imabong Faminu
in Poetry
Jun 9
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1 min read
A Lagos Road Story
A car ride and journeyA stop at a major roundaboutA typical weekday morningIn Lagos, southwest Nigeria A cacophony of sounds and motionA sudden unnerving assault...
Imabong Faminu
in Poetry
Jun 9
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1 min read
Poetic introduction
Not that you would care but Hello my name is Mikson I’m like you A human with a brain trying to be better than the...
Moffat Daka
in Poetry
Jun 9
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2 min read
My Brother’s Anger
My brother’s anger is : a quiet prolonged stare the shattering of a glass cup on ceramic tiles the jangling of a bunch of unlucky...
Akinola Olupayimo
in Poetry
Jun 8
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1 min read
One Day We Will No Longer Care
One day you will look for meWhen you are old and frail and grayWhen your strength is spentWith no one to guide or careAnd you...
Imabong Faminu
in Poetry
Jun 7
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1 min read
Blood Calleth
A stench fills the landOf the green white and greenThe lush Greenland has taken on an ashen blackAnd streaks of red mar the whiteBlood calleth...
Imabong Faminu
in Poetry
Jun 7
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1 min read
The crinkle at the corner
I miss the crinkle at the corner of your eyes. I want to hug you so tight that you say “don’t hug me to death”...
Adejumobi Agunloye
in Poetry
May 29
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1 min read
EPIPHANY
Like life happens to everyone, it has, to youYou’ve had days you soaked your pillow with tears,and cried till your throat hurt.You once wished...
Emmanuella Oluwafemi
in Poetry
May 27
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1 min read
Hands in the air..
*Hands in air* We all have a list of things we would do and wouldn’t do of we could tune the hands of timecause who...
Jocelyn Oke
in Poetry
May 25
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1 min read
ALICE IN WONDERLAND
Like the children of this town whowake up to see the moon scurryingin the sky to avoid being stained with blood. Children whose eyes...
Ismail Daud
in Poetry
May 22
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1 min read
LIFE, A BOOK
Dear Julius, Life is a book, quite non-fictionThe story of one’s beingWritten in chapters of years And pages of days Two things I’m yet to...
AKANIMOH AKANIMOH
in Poetry
May 21
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1 min read
Citadel.
CITADEL. Out of the reds, I will again spare youthe cleanest side of mine.For you to see, Vareehan… It’s your peace I pine this morning...
©️ Indianooh
in Poetry
May 18
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1 min read
Why would we watch a moon die?
As we swing on the sands, our shadows darken,Like a country In chaos, leftsided. Tonight, the moon cries about something outside herself,four miles away…On...
©️ Indianooh
in Poetry
May 17
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1 min read
No Leaders in this Land
The solution to some people’s problem is not the sweet words that make up your sympathetic sentences. The solution to some people’s problem is not...
Oladeji Popoola
in Poetry
May 16
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1 min read
TRUTH
There I was… In front of the court, With my head high… In the witness box, On my left was death and my right freedom,...
Scott Tammy
in Poetry
May 16
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1 min read
We Believe!
That our fore-fathers and mothers have taken the fight against slavery and political injustice to the level where we do not have to worry about another intervention...
We believe!
That our fore-fathers and mothers have taken the fight against slavery and political injustice to the level where we do not have to worry about another intervention...
NATURE
At the top of Nature There I was Mesmerized by the beauty it’s exuded Rugged yet calm, I couldn’t get enough of it’s fill, I...
Scott Tammy
in Poetry
May 14
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1 min read
YOUNG MAN, GOD SEES YOU – YOUNG MAN, MAY GOD STRENGTHEN YOU!
YOUNG MAN, GOD SEES YOU – YOUNG MAN, MAY GOD STRENGTHEN YOU! I see you, young man, trying your best and giving your all..I...
David Yunana
in Poetry
May 14
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1 min read
WHEN THE MOON IS FULL, I WILL SING YOU A SONG
...
Ismail Daud
in Poetry
May 10
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1 min read
Overturn
Overturn (A dam burst open that can’t be managed).By Tobi-Makinde Melody. Overtime, I thought you’d change. And come to see...
Melody Tobi-Makinde
in Poetry
May 8
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1 min read
WHY NOT DIE YOUNG?||A Poem
WHY NOT DIE YOUNG?If this life is supposed to have purpose, and yet things are not going as supposed,Why not die young?I continue to wonder: if...
Miracle Sunday
in Poetry
May 5
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1 min read
Healing
Healing is hard One day you’re lively and fine The next day You hurt till you cry You just need to keep trying And...
Lewis Wamwanda
in Poetry
May 4
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1 min read
Nights and Flowers
Growing up, we’ve often heard instructions like “don’t stay out late” and a few other ones that warn us of criminals who take cover in...
Emmanuella Oluwafemi
in Poetry
May 3
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1 min read
MP
Rolling from one side of the bed to another,As the sensation travels several distances from the source.A quick time of relief comes,Just before another round...
Abiola Ojo
in Poetry
Apr 27
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1 min read
IF ONLY
Calmness from within spoke to me, Turmoil from the outside shook me still, My body’s torn to retreat and seep strength from it’s calmness, But...
Scott Tammy
in Poetry
Apr 20
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1 min read
FIRE
FIRECalm she was, like the seas, running through the valleys,The quiet, peaceful oneHer skin bruised several times, stepped and spat on What could she do?!Soft...
Grace Odukoya
in Poetry
Apr 13
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1 min read
Olánrewájú
The Pilgrim stone of a nine moons May boomerang if thrown at ourAngelic Wishes,As thou can scold the sweet timing Of Time that was counted,...
Akintunde Abiola
in Poetry
Apr 11
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1 min read
Strength
How sad a thing to be strong;To carry your problems on your shoulders and have room for more. How sad a thing to have strength;To...
Michael Ordia
in Poetry
Apr 10
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1 min read
THE BLEEDING LAND
A home they call it, But a strange land it is. One! We claim to be,But diverse we are! Voice of the commoner, unheard by...
Eseoghene Peace
in Poetry
Apr 1
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1 min read
LIFE
He offered me a tree… yet he took away the leaves, On a platter he gave me love, but robbed me off peace, When light...
Scott Tammy
in Poetry
Mar 27
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1 min read
Life Support
where does it hurt? Is it here? Is it there? Was it in these moments you will leave?...
Oluwatobi Opemipo
in Poetry
Mar 26
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1 min read
Immigrants
we have seen these streets before, these memories left with us. they said you loved us, and like water, you yearn to see us run...
Oluwatobi Opemipo
in Poetry
Mar 11
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1 min read
WOMAN
WOMANBirth from the soil of the iroko treeHer hips as round as the earrings of the yemoja goddessThe dip of her hips holding her baby...
Grace Odukoya
in Poetry
Mar 7
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1 min read
THE WICKED MASTER
The Eagle with it’s monstrous, noxious and evil clawsThose claws like the mouth of Rake, takes away the dream,The future of the mother Hen The...
Sharafadeen Muhsinah
in Poetry
Mar 4
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1 min read
EXAMINATIONS
It’s that part of the session when the air is filled with tension. When students toil day and night to make mama proud. When midnight...
Henry Okeke
in Poetry
Feb 25
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1 min read
DAVID ONE LAST CHANCE
I know you’re a man after God’s heart But still in a dilemma if you’re after my heart You once mentioned love to me But...
Winner Ogogo
in Poetry
Feb 13
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1 min read
Men in Uniforms
Men in uniforms. Posing with guns like dragons ready to spit fire.Black for brutalityBlue for “friendship”. DPO with a belly like my mother’s pot.Frowning...
Poor Planks
Poor Planks Planks can only be too strong,Fit flat woods strong enough to hold up the rats on heist every night and at morn’ when...
miracle elvis
in Poetry
Feb 10
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1 min read
The Emergence of True Love
There in her anguish. The love immersed in her heart has been relinquished. This genre of love was gibberish, and her beauty began to tarnish. ...
Memoir of a College Girl
Considered unworthy to be embraced,Thought unfit to be loved,Although she bore her, She doesn’t want to touch her,Not even with a barge pole,In her...
Thompson Emate
in Poetry
Jan 4
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1 min read
Memoir of an African Girl
A member of a large household,A part of a school of siblings,Born by an incapacitated father,And a struggling striving mother,She was raised to know...
Thompson Emate
in Poetry
Jan 4
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1 min read
New
A new page has been openedEmpty pages waiting to be filled with ink.New rooms with new doors.It’s a new dawnNew opportunities to right the wrongAdorn...
Antisocial. Words
in Poetry
Jan 3
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1 min read
New
A new page has been openedEmpty pages waiting to be filled with ink.New rooms with new doors.It’s a new dawnNew opportunities to right the wrongAdorn...
Antisocial. Words
in Poetry
Jan 3
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1 min read
My Secret Lover
His smiles betrays the words he tries to hidesAnd his dilated eyes tells it all. How can I confess this new found love, when I’m...
Gift Agwaze
in Poetry
Jan 3
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1 min read
PYSCHO-LO-GIST
From the mane to the fameI love reading the blogsThey say I’m too quietIt’s just a matter of the noiseJust that I am not your...
Olanrewaju Oyedijo
in Poetry
Dec 28
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1 min read
ÀBÍKÚ
He was reminded that there’s a shortage in the supply of digging tools;So, he stayed (KÒSÓKÓ)He was asked to stay and enjoy Life;So, he beseeched...
Olanrewaju Oyedijo
in Poetry
Dec 19
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1 min read
Modern Poetry
Modern Poetry I remember going to Abuu Faheem the one that sends poetry on international errands to tell me how to write a poem...
Rasheed Ibraheem Akande
in Poetry
Dec 11
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1 min read
if your enemy thirsts, give him drink…
if your enemy thirsts, give him drink… so, when aunty ramotu asked for a glass of cold water to quench her thirst, i sweetened it...
Jaachị Anyatọnwụ
in Poetry
Dec 7
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1 min read
the good, the bad, the ugly; i need all!
i do not want a side of the coin flip it over, sweet or sour i need more more of good and bad good, because...
Jaachị Anyatọnwụ
in Poetry
Dec 7
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1 min read
My Year Diary
Hey, it’s new! Not just the morning and day, The new year is here. I peeped at the long path of its twelve feetOh,...
Precious Oyeniyi
in Poetry
Dec 6
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1 min read
Sometimes…..
sometimes in the night, i look at my mind, thinking, rummaging, to discover why an oddity like me should exist at all. the answer I...
Oluwabukunmi Oladiran
in Poetry
Dec 5
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1 min read
ISOLATION
ISOLATION After spending a good part of your life learning how To fly, float and runin the deep blue ocean To fly into the sky...
Faniyi Tomiwa
in Poetry
Dec 5
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1 min read
PORTAL OF ANGELS
PORTAL OF ANGELS With my hands liftedI hear the present songFrom the growing shadowsOh! It’s the song of angelsComing from the great cityAn atmosphere filled...
Faniyi Tomiwa
in Poetry
Dec 5
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1 min read
Mr. Counselor
MR. COUNSELOR Everyday, I see thingsThings people doEveryday, I see peoplePeople doing thingsEveryday, I hear thingsThings doing peopleEveryday, I hear from peoplePeople that things are...
Faniyi Tomiwa
in Poetry
Dec 5
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1 min read
FROM PAINTED BREATH TO PAINTER
My eyes nurse golden brown flames within them rimmed with purple eye shadows my cheeks are green like a forest in full bloom...
Sandra Arukwe
in Poetry
Dec 3
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1 min read
ON THE EDGE OF TIME
I’ve gotten to the edge of time To the point where it all ends Here, where alone with myself I chatter Where time is...
Elikem Akakpo
in Poetry
Nov 29
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1 min read
Midnight letters
MIDNIGHT LETTERS Dear TichalaThe night aren’t warm anymoreThere’s autumn chill outsideI’m all alone here thinking aboutThe days when the sun refuses to shut down darknessAnd...
Faniyi Tomiwa
in Poetry
Nov 28
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1 min read
Fly
The chilly breeze makes me shiver Goosebumps follow“Everyone’s going”I look again at the dark sky “There’s nothing left here anymore” The fan blades increases its...
Flourish Okwuasaba
in Poetry
Nov 26
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1 min read
ADÙNNÍ
ADÙNNÍ, the way you sway your hips to the rhythm of the song of fire that emanates from...
Oluwapelumi Odebunmi
in Poetry
Nov 16
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1 min read
THE VULTURE (IGÚNUGÚN)
“Igúnugún bà l’órùlé, ojú tólé ojú tóko” The bald-headed bird Ugly, alien-looking, as nothing Mainly eats something dead Ugh! Is that not disgusting! “They eat...
Ojo Tumise Emmanuel
in Poetry
Nov 5
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1 min read
mistakes my parents made
there were many, little foxes. Those mistakes my parents made. They fell twice as constant, stumbled over and again. I would watch them at a distance....
Iyinoluwa Akanbi
in Poetry
Oct 26
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1 min read
How to win a poet’s heart
This is it,how to make a poetwither on your hands like leaves in Autumn; You need caches of beauty,gallons of creativity and a bottle...
Rasheed Ibraheem Akande
in Poetry
Oct 15
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1 min read
LOVE
There’s beauty in chaos Because love sometimes comes from the hellish of places.. our smiles light up when we think of the good memories Then...
Aernyi Barbara
in Poetry
Sep 27
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1 min read
DESPISED
Men have come and walked the shores of this earth They did mighty things but most are not rewarded. The ones we heard and the...
Oladapo 'Wole
in Poetry
Sep 25
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1 min read
DAYS OF THE DUSTY BROWN ROOF
I remembered when the roof was brown and dusty. When the sharp sand was a friend to my milky teeth And the days when...
What is Life?
Life is a duration between birth and death, Life is not perpetual but diminished like smoke, Life is a mystery that...
Ilufoye Noah
in Poetry
Aug 29
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1 min read
Believe me.
Often less than everWe get to see each other;Many times we fightBut I’m not the basis of our plight....
Esther Gabriel-Louis
in Poetry
Aug 26
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1 min read
Let there be light
You invoke as if a spirit, Scream from the bottom of your lungs, Call out with expectation and all the power in your tongue...
Akinola Olupayimo
in Poetry
Aug 6
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1 min read
OH HOW MUCH AM DROWN…
I always get drown in the Flood thoughts of her Amusement. As i can’t help it but to be desiring to behold more of her...
Mivanyi Reuben
in Poetry
Jul 25
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1 min read
The hurricanes pirouette
Our first encounter,Was on a sunny afternoon.When the sly hands of fate and the world;Colluded to test my limits. Dear lord! Did they try?I...
Melody Tobi-Makinde
in Poetry
Jul 23
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1 min read
But we know our own
I hope you read this, and re-read at later times I hope this testing periods pass, with you still intactWith me, still loving at all...
Kareem Azeez , Itunu
in Poetry
Jun 29
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1 min read
ROLLING IN HER DIPS
Yesterday, when she kissed me goodbye, she had that look in her eyes again;The one I dread the most just before the other shoe drops“Why...
DEATH IS A THIEF
That stone you threw on me Sank very well to the depth of my heart And brought me back to the crying ways As a...
Franklyn Obuya
in Poetry
May 28
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1 min read
Do not shut me up!
I am Child!Do not shut me up!Because, I am child.Do not deprive me!Because , I am a child.Do not neglect meBecause , I am Child….....
JAMES JANET
in Poetry
May 27
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1 min read
The African Child
Black and proud, Fragile yet strong, You are the pride of the nation You are the future of the continent. The chains that bound...
Ebunoreofe Adedeji
in Poetry
May 27
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1 min read
Hello, Brother
Hello, BrotherEven though distance tears us apartI dwell in your heartYou dwell in mine. In all seasonsWhen I needed someone to talk tooYou were always...
Adebusola Nafisa Ogunsesan
in Poetry
May 12
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1 min read
My Mother’s Day
“There are days, there are good days and there are bad days that make good days worthy of celebrating”And there is a Mother’s Day...
Noah Aderoju
in Poetry
May 9
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1 min read
W O R D S.
I heard no amount of words would fill a basket, Then,I was told to speak up rather than taking it with me to my casket,...
ESTHER DAMILOLA AJIGBOTOSHO
in Poetry
May 5
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1 min read
State of Emergency
A cockroach has lost A wing and a limb In a ghastly flight for safety And the broom that caused same Has caught up with...
Mighty Emmanuel Isaac
in Poetry
Apr 30
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1 min read
SERENITY
Where I am matters a lot, Where I belong speaks a lot. My environment, what I need. To help organize my adaptation. My environment should...
Naeemah Kamaldeen
in Poetry
Apr 30
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1 min read
From The Moment
Photo credits: Thought catalog on Unsplash I have been taking a creative writing unit this semester and we were given an assignment to write a...
Jess Mwangi
in Poetry
Apr 28
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1 min read
The Path
THE PATH I was lost but i trusted in The Path. I hoped the path would somehow end in the start where i would...
Damilola Aruna-Ogun
in Poetry
Apr 24
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2 min read
DEATH.
With no eyes, no ears, no mouth, you grab without warning, you make us sad without a choice, you pick You cause so much pain...
Aernyi Barbara
in Poetry
Apr 22
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1 min read
Soon
Soon we’ll look at our scars and smile, forgetting the hands that wounded us. soon our flaws will be forgotten because we will accept who...
Aernyi Barbara
in Poetry
Apr 18
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1 min read
My mistake
Lately, I’ve been slipping Slowly but steadily I’m receding Listening to sad songs Relating to the lyrics more that I should All these scenarios and...
Zaizai 😂😂😂
in Poetry
Apr 15
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1 min read
My Addiction
It all started from afarI saw you and thought you are the girl of my parI hoped you’ll be smart enough alsobut I wasn’t ready...
Theusan Ibrahim
in Poetry
Apr 8
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1 min read
DISJOINTED THOUGHTS (II)
DISJOINTED THOUGHTS (II) I have found balance in tipped scales.Symphonies in noise..The whole universe is a song, But we often listen the wrong way.I’ve discovered...
Ogedegbe Theodore Syl
in Poetry
Apr 7
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Hook n’ Line
They say, “a stitch in time saves nine” But in this instance, it’s a switch in time. And a switch in time is just fine....
Joseph Steve
in Poetry
Mar 27
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1 min read
We ride on our love
I wish I could tell thee of how great thy ink is Of how it has covertly written love on the pages of my heart...
Layo Deborah
in Poetry
Mar 27
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1 min read
ABIKE
Abike! Thy native pot rejects the streams of ogundaye.Your flower pot you have hidden well,But the gods have not kept silent towards you. Abike! Your...
MY ROYAL HIBISCUS.
Love and life given in peace Joy and warmth filled in the embrace In truth and in words you lead the way. Mama and Papa...
Tolulope Quadri
in Poetry
Mar 25
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1 min read
A TALE WITH NO TAIL.
Now I stager and fail I try even harder but I faint Friends look at me and hate I try to explain, but words drained....
Tolulope Quadri
in Poetry
Mar 25
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1 min read
MY HEART PONDERS.
A garden of thorns There it is A rose beams brightly Even still in it When torn and hurt There by it Or shielded and...
Tolulope Quadri
in Poetry
Mar 25
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1 min read
A LETTER TO MY LOVE.
In the world of gale and hail With you, my heart beams with rays. Splashes of colors every here and there Even a lion, now...
Tolulope Quadri
in Poetry
Mar 25
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1 min read
Unspoken Thoughts
I can taste your insincerityLight tipped on your tongueFrom your lips to mineI hear your unspoken thoughtsI feel your willful withdrawalWith each breathless pauseYour eyes...
Claire Molen
in Poetry
Mar 24
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1 min read
GOD
I hear HE is boundless, infiniteThey say if I’ll believe,I will see HIM.If I reach far enough,HE will touch me . I hear HE loves...
Antisocial. Words
in Poetry
Mar 15
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1 min read
My time will come
Kareem Itunu Azeez (solacewrites) From Slethrin, Down to the plain ego’s of Apapath, Running from brimless raceInto the journeys non sourced for…“Our time will...
Kareem Azeez , Itunu
in Poetry
Mar 3
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1 min read
BITTERNESS
Her sting is poisonous to the soul.Harboring her makes the chest tighten.She turns her dwelling place into food.Slowly eating it up,Till it bleeds. Her gifts...
Omolara Kazeem
in Poetry
Mar 1
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1 min read
Bites The Dust
Abiola;The same thing you didTo my heart, I did to your feet,One thing broken and theOther walked away. All I ever did was try, all...
Akintunde Abiola
in Poetry
Mar 1
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1 min read
When LOVE Goes South
What becomes of you When LOVE Goes South?When the one person you are fond of leaves you behindIn pursuit of a life where the...
Henry Okeke
in Poetry
Feb 20
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1 min read
PHANTOM
He was elusive, He smelled trouble miles away, He was darkness, She was light. Her head screamed ‘retreat!’ Yet her heart was ready to...
Mayowa Olukayode
in Poetry
Feb 15
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1 min read
Mental Illness
Assumptions about other thought grasp the mind with soar face Every gaze made always give an ink idea of what others think about you especially...
Sodiq Mustapha
in Poetry
Jan 27
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1 min read
Commentary on Paradox of little fires.
I just finished reading the much anticipated “Paradox of little fires” by Jide Badmus and I’m still salivating. I would love to say: it’s...
SIMEON ELVIS DUMLE
in Poetry
Jan 27
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1 min read
Mother is home..( Happy Birthday Maami )
Having gathered so much knowledgeEnough for my own urge, I felt mothers eulogies are exxaggerated, And i swayed away, from the appeasement of my mother,...
The Inevitable
The Cemetery is full of unfinished dreams. Loved ones are gone within an iota of unplanned and unexpected moments.There has been cases of after party incident...
Sodiq Mustapha
in Poetry
Jan 19
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1 min read
Blood and Water
I see my reflection in the pool of murky water.Blood trickles down the length of my fingers, sending ripples that dance upon my image.The thoughts...
Claire Molen
in Poetry
Jan 17
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1 min read
The stigma
THE STIGMAYour loins was my comfort zoneWhy did you endanger my Zone?Encircling me to a danger zone?You tricked me out of desperationMaking me a victim...
JAMES JANET
in Poetry
Jan 17
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1 min read
DISGUISE
DISGUISELet me tell you about a game I playedwhen I bid goodbyewith no plan of where to residewhen i decide to kill the threatwith no...
Rashidat Fashina
in Poetry
Jan 11
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1 min read
Fear
The imaginary little gremlin That creeps over your mind The one that limit your actions And takes over your years. The little monster that Dwells...
Mu'azu Zakari
in Poetry
Jan 11
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1 min read
FRIGHT!
It happened two days before Christmas. I had not known what fear really meant until then. It was as though the veil was torn, I...
joy eguaoje
in Poetry
Jan 11
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1 min read
Trapped in Love
She was the light That illuminated my soul And made me see All that was hidden In the deepest corners of my head. O!...
Maliq Adebowale
in Poetry
Jan 9
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1 min read
My Succubus
She’s got the most perfect eyes, Tells the best lies. She’s always at it, Puzzling my mind like a jigsaw. She’s the codeine, Slows...
Maliq Adebowale
in Poetry
Jan 9
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1 min read
Over Here
Over Here(At Ona-ara) Where we are is the capital city of darknesswhere only lightnings, fireflies and moon share them from their generous brightness. Dust is...
Rasheed Ibraheem Akande
in Poetry
Jan 2
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1 min read
Once Again
That others may see our viewWe have made it a snap choreUntil we get our reward as dueGifts of excitement and raptureThat hilarious look from...
Idris Osunkoya
in Poetry
Jan 1
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1 min read
At the eleventh hour
Coast clear, Deed done Seconds works in value Tick tock await thee! Hour of despair cometh All Peter rode blue sea with empty...
Praise Oluwasina
in Poetry
Dec 31
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1 min read
The Creative’s Journey
THE CREATIVE’S JOURNEY The creative begins the journey transforming imagination to close reality It begins with a thought, a whiff An idea creeps in, ...
Adejumo Oluwatosin
in Poetry
Dec 31
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1 min read
ONCE IN A WHILE
A man who’s bad with goodbyesFarewell speeches and toastsFor his post mortem suicideHe oughtn’t to leave a note For a strong man dies but twiceFighting...
Idris Osunkoya
in Poetry
Dec 31
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1 min read
A Talk With The Night
Nighttime is my time,I walk anyhow,I do anyhow,I visit places forbidden,I do things forgotten, I approach things forsaken, Nighttime is my time; Oh! How I cherish your...
Ibidunni Omorilewa
in Poetry
Dec 27
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1 min read
The Splendor of Christmas
Unfazed by the sins of men,He grappled while sauntering inThe holy of holies.Passion stirred love etched on His brows as He thought,“Who do we send...
Precious Adetunji
in Poetry
Dec 25
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1 min read
SANTA SANTA
THEME: SANTA SANTA I can’t hide the joy it gives,Always in my home to receive him from Rome,Click! Click! camera shutters.Mama, Papa this is the...
Oluwaseun Oke
in Poetry
Dec 24
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1 min read
THE SEDUCTION CREED
I don’t know about you but let me indulge you for a little bit.What do you think if we made love? A different kind of...
Three hero of my youth
Hero of my youth Alas adolescent comes full of pride For hands are spread like wings Soaring north to south Though no squad but...
Praise Oluwasina
in Poetry
Dec 22
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1 min read
WEEPING EYE
WEEPING EYEShedding tears nights and daysHow long will it lastThe foetus in the wombLament of a great suffering The hand refuse to feed the mouthYet...
Fashina Rashidat Temitope
in Poetry
Dec 21
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1 min read
The Lady in Red
No one knew her name, no one caredAll they knew was that her favorite colour was red. The lady in red as she was...
Michael Ordia
in Poetry
Dec 20
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1 min read
Endless power whirl
Nigeria!Why art thou put our dreams on hold?In the hands of hopeless fellows.With your hands infold, just like you’re in mellow.You allowed two fellow bodies...
Mustapha Lawal
in Poetry
Dec 20
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1 min read
Sakinah
It’s not your smiles Which causes the butterflies In my stomach to rumble It’s not the glances I steal When you’re not looking Which sends...
FIRST YOU DREAM, THEN YOU DIE.
I wake up on the side of the train tracksIn a world where the time is difficult to trackI remember one thing only; I had...
Henry Okeke
in Poetry
Dec 14
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1 min read
Follow me
I can tell you about a state Where the pride is buried at the gateOf history. There you’d find a boyWhose heart is null and...
A Rat!
...
Claire Molen
in Poetry
Dec 9
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1 min read
ILM – KNOWLEDGE
From cradle, Man perched on every word heard Crawled to wrap the Qolam around his tiny little fingers, A little one thirsts for knowledge. Flapping...
Kawthar Omisore
in Poetry
Dec 5
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1 min read
Dance
They say dance and all I hear is the call of the macabre, I finally decided to let my feelings out, It’s been days but...
Eseoise Egbokhare
in Poetry
Dec 2
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1 min read
I HAVE A STORY TO TELL
TELL though the bricks are yet to build a mansion,though the drop has not made an ocean,though the seed is yet to be a plantation,and...
Rashidat Fashina
in Poetry
Dec 2
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1 min read
Once Upon a Time,There Was a Girl Named Nigeria.
...
Odeyemi faith
in Poetry
Nov 29
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1 min read
DANCE IN LOVE
THEME: DANCE IN LOVE (Intro: slow music) Gorgeous, can I have a dance with you?Give me your hand, let me walk you to the dance...
Oluwaseun Oke
in Poetry
Nov 28
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2 min read
Settle our piece
...
Oluwaseun Oke
in Poetry
Nov 28
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1 min read
Are thou my karma?
ARE THOU MY KARMA? Loneliness, I felt wrapped my heart in a death grip Crawling on my skin like the leeches that attach and suck...
Ikyernum Tkay
in Poetry
Nov 27
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1 min read
Hey Mr. Hero!!
I once heard about you and laughed it out. Mum also encouraged me saying we worship daily so you could not dare call on...
Franklyn Obuya
in Poetry
Nov 26
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1 min read
The mystery of Ghanaian diets
Even for food prostitutes like us We are sometimes perplexed by certain introductions and traditions We do not know why cassava is a company with...
Benoni Blay
in Poetry
Nov 24
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1 min read
Free to live
FREE TO LIVE Can a bird be caged in the air where freedom is free? Can the music of sonorous voice? Be limited from...
JAMES JANET
in Poetry
Nov 22
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1 min read
Nil
music tastes like sand because ears have refused to eat the good sounds, and there’s me under my grandmother’s cane chair locking the little doors...
Foyin Ejilola
in Poetry
Nov 19
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1 min read
EVOL
Heaven never heard me call, guess that’s the reason I feel like hell,In my feelings I fell,In my silence I yelled,In my hands I held,Answers…...
Ibrahim Hamzetullah Hamza
in Poetry
Nov 18
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1 min read
Tragedy
Tragedy I tried not to write about you (because you told me not to) But I can still taste your name And perceive your scent...
Hope Ibiale
in Poetry
Nov 15
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1 min read
This thing called intimacy
This thing called intimacy Intimacy is more than just intoxicating primal lust, It is not just about sex or kissing Or whatever unholy thing your...
Hope Ibiale
in Poetry
Nov 15
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1 min read
When the world ended.
When the world ended When sun and moon melted, When the oceans gave up their dead, When the army of the Lord got ready for...
Hope Ibiale
in Poetry
Nov 13
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1 min read
The Other Man
Sentiment societal wonder where my path liesI am not effeminate or built to suit the stereotypical viewsBut when I start to tell tell them They...
Praise Oluwasina
in Poetry
Nov 12
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1 min read
LIFE AFTER EARLY YEARS
Weak and feeble you were With the sounds of lullabies sang for you to hear Times passed You grew, you learnt, you believed Influenced...
tunmiseakadiri@gmail.com
in Poetry
Nov 11
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1 min read
Pay the Price
On this journey I am,What mile is left to cover?This ocean looks like a dam,I hope you do not call me a rover. At the...
Taiwo Gbolagade
in Poetry
Nov 9
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1 min read
1960
1960, The Ist fruit of your being ushersIn the wave of an historic remembrance,Where a nation was birth by The labour for freedom and liberty....
JAMES JANET
in Poetry
Oct 28
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1 min read
Free to live
2FREE TO LIVEThe land is green,Yet! All we see is redThe land is white,Yet! all we hear is warThe land is blessed with soil,Yet! the...
JAMES JANET
in Poetry
Oct 22
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1 min read
POLICE SAVAGERY
For what?What did I do wrong?What crime have I committed?When has having an iPhone become a crime? In a boarded vehicle,I saw them afar.I’ll be...
Blessing Inavwhe
in Poetry
Oct 18
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1 min read
A Voyage around my bedroom
Sudden sound of wallowing piano drew me closer With the mysterious interference of drums In thy alertness never to get in bar Oh father of...
Praise Oluwasina
in Poetry
Oct 9
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1 min read
TALES OF VANITY
In the land of horror,lives a Sapien of honour,who seeks love and virtue.Also in quest of fortune. Wandering like an hungry prey,but nowhere to stay.Hoping...
The desolated house
An uncompleted edificel locatedin a far away land. The house houses the landlordv Who’s forever living in the veranda ...
Adedolapo Owoade
in Poetry
Oct 7
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1 min read
Mystery of love
Love is abstract yet it can be shown and felt. Love is as hard as rock yet soft like a wool. Love is gleeful at...
Adedolapo Owoade
in Poetry
Oct 5
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1 min read
Think about me
...
Akintunde Abiola
in Poetry
Oct 5
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1 min read
IN-DEPENDENCE
Call it wierd,I call it respectIt was yesterday but not our yesterday it was a day for our forefathers A supposed day of celebration, but...
Makanjuola Oluwajubeelo
in Poetry
Oct 1
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1 min read