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…
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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…
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…
Red Spear in my Dream
By Goodnews Karibo again I come to the place where I am inept at upending my fears. to sort each quaking bone for its smouldering nerves. before I take my body out into the open fields. before I listen closely…
Impermanence
By Osahon Oka Your hands shake the tray, the cup scatters its hypodermic needles of piercing light, liquid trembling around its rim & then, spill comes gently & sudden to its own impermanence: a puddle slowly closing its eyes. You…
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: POETRY COLUMN-NND
Poetry Column-NND is open to poetry submissions from Nigerian poets weekly. We publish one poem per week in our newspaper by Nigerian poets & are open to a diversity of voices—established & emerging. Check out our website for older publications…
Legitimate
with a line from Gbenga Adesina By Taofeek “Aswagaawy” Ayeyemi Memory is the darkness in which we find our gone souls; history and heritage reminisced as culture, as headstones to crush our flowers. Father was a griot and death filled…
WINNERS: FOLORUNSHO EDITOR’S POETRY PRIZE 2023
Named after the late Publisher of Nigerian NewsDirect, Dr Samuel Folorunsho Ibiyemi, the Folorunsho Editor’s Poetry Prize follows in the tradition of upholding and supporting poetry in Nigeria through its Poetry Column. Only poets published in the Poetry Column in the year under consideration are…
the making of a persona poem
By Chiagoziem Jideofor I miss home. I am old enough to have unleashed all sternness, wear out my leather skin. I am made of this dirt, mold a mother rejects. I’ve got guns, corked guns I am unwilling to show.…
LONGLIST: FOLORUNSHO EDITOR’S POETRY PRIZE 2023
Named after the late Publisher of Nigerian NewsDirect, Dr Samuel Folorunsho Ibiyemi, the Folorunsho Editor’s Poetry Prize follows in the tradition of upholding and supporting poetry in Nigeria through its Poetry Column. Only poets published in the Poetry Column in the…