poetry column

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…

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…

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…