Category: POETRY
Spare The Rod by Esther Sorkpor
Spare the Rod Their body is a sealed brown envelope labelled as classified presented to the government at birth a temple of the lobbyist gods on the altar of failed heads lays the prey whose prayers are a political statement a property belonging of your family your pastor your partner this body is […]
Cost of Living by Esther Sorkpor
Cost of Living I write of the anguished cries from the Chad to the Atlantic a fellowship of broken souls frantically fighting for survival on sinking sand no salvation for starving mouths in pot bellies no faith enough to move this rock of bad governance The timeline with its bants rants tweets […]
The Pain we Don’t Survive by Clara Jack
The pain we don’t survive There is pain we perform The one we dress up nice enough for everyone to see There’s pain we gauge we can take So we take that one and hold it So that we don’t swap it for a new one There’s pain we know, pain that we can trust […]
SNEAKERS MELODY TOBI-MAKINDE
Sneakers you did what my former lovers Couldn’t. you stayed you stuck through the mud the torrents and the seas until there was no space to hold my feet. you stayed with till you were old battered and worn out just like our unspoken vows for better and for worse. until there are no holes […]
FOR DAYS BY VICTOR SESE There are days when the only place I want to be is beside you Days when I beg you not to get out of bed Because then the cuddling ends and the warmth leaves with you Days when I shudder at the thought of being overwhelmed by the cold […]
My Relationship Saga by Raheemat Jimoh Popping pills everyday Because I can’t find a better way I’m a drug seeker seeking drugs for healing I know what you’re thinking and you’re right I’m an addict But not of marijuana or cocaine, but of folic acid and OPIOIDS Addiction takes many forms, and mine wears […]
Shayo by Tolu Fowowe
When you’re two bottles deep, and you begin to feel that trap door sliding open from underneath you, Maybe, begin to say maybe, Maybe pacing yourself will serve better than screaming “Shapiru, Shapiru!” at the very top of your lungs as you hold firmly to bottle number three, ice-cold but sweating just as profusely as […]
Málomó by Tomi Olaniyan
Struggles of motherhood, Agonizing, however fulfilling. I toiled day and night, So I may reap what I sow. Bodies grinding with sweats, With no pleasure on sight. Despair had been my abode, With no child to call my own. Then you happened, The joy that cometh by morning. Only that I was jinxed, […]
Mother called by Desire O.
today my mother calls me, even though we spoke the night before. i am not ready for any of it, so i still, until i can, until i am alone, and am charged enough to hear it whatever it is. in her first syllables, i hear that she is worried about me, and perplexed, i […]
High on life by Nana Osei Agyeman
The music wells, caresses my ears and tickles my brain. I look up to the sky, blue with hope, optimism… Adorned elegantly in clouds, white, pure, ever changing. The foliage whisks by, luscious, green, making an otherwise bland landscape vivid and interesting. Faces, they move past me, different and unique, each wearing different […]
