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  • Joined: February 18, 2024
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The Knowledge

By Kei Vough Korede In a dream, two bars of soap Were handed to me— One containing melancholy. The other, mirth. A voice instructed me to give The former to my father and keep The latter for myself. I broke…

I die like waves

By Daniel Orisaeke On the shoreline, I watch the sun—a halved-cut lemon dip into the sea, language written in the dance of waves there is a pull and I succumb. The man beside me murmurs a few words about dying.…

Hoping for the greens we left behind

By Alobu Emmanuel —after Saheed Sunday The day I realised the earth’s misery was when my keyboard’s auto-correct called me a poor earth instead of a poet. the earth is beautiful; so beautiful that mother nature should slice our hands…

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…

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…