U doon, dearest love Ka nyi? What lies behind your resigned stare the wrinkled crease, do you wonder what lies behind mine or is my soul to you bare? I compose these, line after line to release the words of our shared trove As you wonder or know I stay here bringing my heart to … Continue reading »
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INNER PEACE (A Performance Poem) by Ode Attah
Do you believe in ignorance is bliss? Do you believe after the war there will be peace? How about the everlasting effects of its devastation and all the guns in circulation? I may not know it all but knowledge is not always education How can it be when I have learnt more outside the classroom … Continue reading »
Cross My Soul (A Poem) By Leah Sewuese Anyo
If ever I knelt Before the very altar of God I’d shed no tears Compared to this river flowing And the drums playing Within my heart I call it murder I stare in utter wonder The way you walk in such perfection And yet stir in me Such pitiless emptiness It’s hard to tell And … Continue reading »
IN THE UNBROKEN MOONLIGHT (A Poem) by Hyginus Ekwuazi
In the unbroken moonlight on the Plateau: all the pains I’ve secreted away in the deep hiding places of my heart they crawl out, these hidden pains like insects from underneath these stones that dot the Plateau slowly, from deep within the tears come but the abressive winds dry them up… ..in the unbroken moonlight … Continue reading »
Far too long (The Silence Lingers) – A poem by Su’eddie Vershima Agema
(For A…) Through it all, I lost your touch For some reason the silence lingers The space widens The elasticity of love and friendship stretches longer Is it work, time or hard luck? Is it that the thought of fondness no longer gladdens? Whatever it is… For some reason, the silence lingers The space widens … Continue reading »
Chinua Achebe: Death, Where Are Thy Claws? – Niyi Osundare
Chinua Achebe is one of those epically unique individuals whose lives have been so full, so purposive and so impactful that we begin to pray that they will never die. But who doesn’t know that that is mere wishful thinking? To be sure, the Eagle on Iroko didn’t die young, but he left when … Continue reading »
STUBBORN SOUL (A POEM) by Kator Hule
(for Chinua Achebe) You Stubborn Soul Saturate with thoughts they hated You who littered stubborn words in our hard hearts Words too stubborn to die Too stubborn to be forgotten You literary glitterati Die! The grief that strides Like a bullet through Biafra forests during the war, you pierced Too stubborn, you refused to die … Continue reading »
Twenty Years Later (A Poem or something like that) by Su’eddie Vershima Agema
(for my sister, Sefa Renay Charles-Ayede…) She said we are twins differed by a few years… yes, she the little rascal clipping off her hair at intervals. I could tell her tale over and over but what more do I say? I think of her today again remembering those years – twenty – when I … Continue reading »
Sounds of the Night (A Poem) by Terzungwe Inja
Of bootlaces locking Masks slipping on and guns cocking Of big liquors pouring Music blaring on and tongues wagging Of generators groaning Fumes floating up and buildings quaking Of people kissing Condoms showing up and beds squeaking Of Churches preaching Money pouring down and Pastors cackling Of pages flipping Students swotting up and Students partying … Continue reading »
OKIGBO – MYTHMAKER & TOWNCRIER AT HEAVENSGATE by Hyginus Ekwuazi
Osofisan recounts this incident about how Okigbo took him to Mbari club one night to work. He was barely out of the secondary school and Okigbo was mentoring him. How for a few hours he managed to bang away at the typewriter before falling asleep. How in his sleep the smell of the midnight oil … Continue reading »
