Prayer basket
By Kayode Ayobami say each line two times; one with your right ventricle and the other with the apex of your tongue. Give me the audacity to be beautiful in The face of chaos. Let my breath outpace The speed…
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With God
By Salami Alimot Temitope I sit on a stool in my room, beside the window, with the sun reflecting towards me, disguised as optimism. I am thinking about the direction of my life. Some day, obstinance steams my inside, making…
Thirsty Boy
By Abdulbasit Oluwanishola You don’t have to reach the pharynx of the river before you stumble on your people—on their carcasses. water is careless. it even stomachs dirt. it shakes hand to the filthy proposal of men. and don’t ask…
At the end of hope
By Rafiat Lamidi there was more hope. The first time I peered into the inside of a television, I was lost Everything was sunny pink, I thought it would burst The redness seeped through me as a ghost, white I…
Vacant years
By Wisdom Adediji Night nests upon the sky, and the moon, too shy, cowers behind my neighbour’s roof. The rubbles left in silence’s womb burst loose as the wind wrestle against the lineage of spine leaves holding my window pane…
Poetry Column-NND, Arts Lounge, CookingPot Publishing partner on Akachi Chukwuemeka Prize for Literature
Arts Lounge officially announces the call for submission for The 2024 Akachi Chukwuemeka Prize for Literature, in memory of Nigerian poet, Emmanuel Chukwuemeka Ugwuoke, popularly known as Chukwuemeka Akachi (1998-2019). Poetry Column-NND is a regular sponsor of the prize. Chukwuemeka…
Poetry Column-NND, SprinNG partner on annual poetry contest
The Sprinng Annual Poetry Contest is back, and this year, courtesy of Poetry Column-NND, three writers will each stand a chance to win N15,000 Cash and N10,000 gift cards to shop at Roving Heights. Timeline: The contest opens on March…
odim hill is a flight risk
By Precious Okpechi there’s a kite testing how fast it needs to glideto halt a cloud in space; a light travelling acrossthe globe like saturn’s wedding ring; the small town below looks like a network of dendrites: a littlegreen here…
Prayer at the Sea
By Agunbiade Kehinde Definitions belong to the definers — Toni Morrison Dawn is an open book for the hopes of travellers.They say by the time it breaks with its pitcher of boon,And the secrets of its rites of passage,Let them…
Transcendental
By Chinemerem Prince Nwankwo Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, / like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season. – Jb5.26 & bones once chiseled in youth, leaned toward a lingo. —how evening…