FWGE Day 15: The Bittersweet Death of The Love Affair by Abigail George
(for the Dutch poet Joop Bersee) I have nowhere to go. The nurse had a mouthful to say. Her tongue got tangled up in the…
Poetry
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Tribute to Ike Ikeogu – Silas Bamigbola
when icons die stars fall, the nights look darker a bit because another lamp was switched off. what happens to great men who traject through…
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Ramadan Poem | Day 4: Burning Sins by Onafowokan Taofeek Busayo
As for the lunar month We sniff and smear Await time Burning Like the darkness of the night This is for the sacred days We…
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FWGE Day 11: Sorry Jane, Come Tonight by Chenjerai Mhondera.
Sorry Jane-‘t wasn’t your turn; …
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FWGE: Day 8: Poe-matics by Adebayo Kolawole Samuel
for Bluestone I am an equation— Calculus of whirlings, thrummings & palpitations. I am a matrix— Gang of numbers lost in the depths of squares….
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The Girl Whose Stars Hung In The Memory Of Pain And Agony, Poem by Adetayo Omotoyosi
(For Leah) Life in the hands of Boko Haramites Is a basket full of both pain and agonies And chameleons that changes colour Where Sauntering…
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Poetry: Once Upon A Politician by Naphtali Festus Adda
In the name of change, the descendants of an ancestor needed a people to foster their needs not with broken manifestoes but fulfilled promises they…
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FWGE Day 16: Desires by Iliya Kambai Dennis
You were purple the day you stepped Out of your white smile. I remembered staring at you, Lost in thoughts and illusions. I should have…
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The Archer by Fawole Immanuel Taiwo
THE ARCHER My mouth cannot utter How this arrow has hit me. Deeply, Into the core of my heart, Into the marrows of my bones,…
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Poetry: Suicide Note by Fame Odey
it was too cold right here to handle my heart froze even when i lit up a candle i only watched it burn within and…