By Ajibola Tolase In the doctor’s office wheremy symptoms dissipate at the newsof negative test results. I’m lookingat my tongue, colored orangeby Fanta in the mirror....
By Ugochukwu Damian Okpara here are my hands, lonely as they can be.i once asked a man to hold them & confesshis love for me. the...
By I.S. Jones I loved you when I was a childand so, my love for you was childish.For nine lifetimes, you’ve haunted my dreams. Nine lifetimes...
By Njoku Nonso I do not trust my hands to keep me alive. I chapel my hands towards atonement, a white stallion limping across the garden...
Nigerian NewsDirect will be open to poetry submissions for its Poetry Column-NND beginning January 2021. We hope to publish one poem per week in our newspaper...
By Dipe Jola We toweled our bodies into the national flag, singing sour songs from our dusty throats. Our cracked voices gruesomely held on to God’s...
By Remi Akinwande Before the superpowers ruin our lives, before the seismic events swallow our buildings. Before the sun sets us ablaze, before the moon decides...
By Iyanu Adebiyi it is well, i sing. even my gele knows it. you are not what i said you’d be. now my dreams are all...
(after Logan February) By Boluwatife Afolabi Do you know me? I once tried to learn all your names by heart but they did not stay ...
By Jakky Bankong-Obi Herbs cooked in blackened pot, in water adding nothing, over open flame Invoke the mother, the father, all the ancestors near and far....