Flow, the Muse calls… I know not what to write. The words flow but nothing comes out right the journey from the heart to the hand stops the communication from the hand to the heart flops… Come out, words, come out! I bring to the screen the flow of my heart hoping it to juxtapose … Continue reading »
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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 »
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 »
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 »
IN YOUR HONOUR (A Poem) by Okwy Obu
FOR SU’EDDIE VERSHIMA AGEMA the lord’s day the smell of rain from ricardo’s jos tingles our nostrils no moisture in sight the sun shines on there is dust today just as before the a.c. is mute we make do with bread and zobo curse chinenye gone with her magic the hours drag past we fish … Continue reading »
IT WASN’T YOU, IT WAS ME (An Extempore Poem) by Su’eddie Vershima Agema
( for yesterday…) It wasn’t you It was me. It wasn’t that you were late. It’s just you made convenience expire. I would have stayed forever to wait You know, simply to catch the beauty of you even for those moments – a few but time came to call and I didn’t know if … Continue reading »
ABSENCE (A poem) by Su’eddie Vershima Agema
At certain moments I clutch at the physical but catch space gone times beckoning as memories become shadows widows of better times when touch was special… when whispers were the essence words now echoing on and on… denying a presence… (From the collection, BRING OUR CASKET HOME: Tales one shouldn’t tell 2012) Related articles SU’EDDIE … Continue reading »
POST-DILUVIAN SCRIBBLES (A Poem) by Okwy Obu
(For Su’eddie) they have receded now dark diluvian dirges which fondled homesteads caressed pregnant fields leaving handprints of painthey have receded now the exiles are back to wrecked hovels the earth battered but better and the sun regained mastery of the pitiless sky at least for a while they have receded now soon their draining … Continue reading »
Let There Be Light by Tochi Nicole Brown (a performance poem)
in the beginning, God said, “Let there be light!” and there was light, and we pronounced it good. so, light is good. that is established. but is good light? can good be light? we were told that a chaste woman is good we’re listening, we said oh, by the way, a chaste woman is a … Continue reading »
WHAT IF AND WHEN… (Verse…)
Please, look, look up I am taking this from the top… What if we spoke every day using hours on end without finishing what we have to say? What if I knew your thoughts kept of times laughed, those times wept? If I said I read them all – your sighs and your lols … Continue reading »
