FWGE Day 13: Akanni Mi by Ayorinde Ayotimofe Sharon
Akanni mi, Those mornings while alone, I craved an imaginary lover. So many paintings that loved me When no one else did. I would mock…
Akanni mi, Those mornings while alone, I craved an imaginary lover. So many paintings that loved me When no one else did. I would mock…
Let the blissful rain fall on usAnd the seven thunder echoes for our union,I have visited your mystery landAnd was drown inside your labyrinth,Where two…
Being Black At 20 What goes on in your mind when your father’s wife tickles a piece of your silence? You are just a boy…
Eid Mubaarak(1st of Shawwal,1440AH) At the beginning, the mouths split with the strength of the wind and carries moist of evil talks At the beginning,…
a portrait held the four-corner of my father’s house/ this portrait had the story of how my father & my elder sister became monsters/turned our…
To write about now is to tell you that right about now, in the front corners of the world, women have become a plaything… Used…
SOMEWHERE IN MY COUNTRY A wandering flutist Stopped to eulogize an Iroko; This Iroko has no branch for birds to perch No leaves to shelter…
The souls have started wearing Raiments of repentance Chanting heavily The Chronicles of forgiveness When the border of trials Clenches you at your fist Worries…
The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2018 has been awarded to the Polish author Olga Tokarczuk “for a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents…
Reincarnation If I’m to come here a second time I shall stay off the blacks boundary Where truth in glare in a twist turns lime…