Poem: Ode to my Better Half
There goes my friend, Who winds round my heart like a thread. With smiles so beautiful to rule, Bounding both hearts without glue. Though I own no clock to prowl, Nor a cock to crow, The whispers of thy breath, serves a wake up call. But in thy absence, the day shines so dull. If […]
Poem of the Week: Dressed but not Fine
Today is exceptional, I know, My dress is new, clean and well-designed, I rarely wear it, and it is mildly expensive, I saw myself in the mirror and complimented me, I am properly dressed, looking good, but not fine. My car developed a costly fault and Our organization’s Management has talked about layoffs, My […]
Poem of the Week: Stolen Waters
By Nehi Igbinijesu Sneak sneak Stolen waters are sweet Nosy nether need know How once avid we did tweet Peek peek Just a little see One look too lustful Like Bathseba’s- then we Quick quick Snatched a little of what not Feasting on the worthless Like Esau on Becca’s broth Squeak, squeak Chattering go […]
Poem Of The Week: Wastelands… A Tribute To The Ogoni People.
By Nehi Igbinijesu. What time we spoke They hushed What time we cried They hanged our nine From Bodo with tears Of dirt that rubbed And robbed- On us many years O! The bore of hunger That drained us With fleeting blackness Of life sucking roundabout Many promises And then hangings No more fishes Only […]
Poem Of The Week: To An Icon…
By Nehi Igbinijesu. Teary eyes everywhere No more with us you are The smiles-All gone With wonder gathered from abroad Who shall console us? And give us hope to do Who shall remind us? To be faithful, just and true Many a light with yours had deemed Drowned in a mirth of unborn […]
Poem Of The Week: Wake Up!
By Nehi Igbinijesu. Silhouettes from another life A people removed from problems Absorbed far with themselves Amnesia saturated And away from the crowd No police, landlords or NEPA No headliners,no crashes And no political mischievers Wait o! No curfews State of emergencies And slicky oil shippers No dealt opened dams With handshakes that […]
Poem Of The Week: From Handshakes, Lions And Horses – A Tribute To Flood Victims Across Africa.
By Nehi Igbinijesu. Awaken quickly Posiedon unnravels about us Hence hath come curses From handshakes, lions and horses Arise completely For the day devours us In somber silence Of brethren, lions and horses Get out hastily For who shall save us? Deluges, rapes and snakes? Yea! And handouts, lions and horses Roarings and neighings […]
Poem of the Week: Cries and Groans
By Nehi Igbinijesu Tis dark With ants filing Like a hungry lover’s obsession Atop festooned nuptiality Iridescent with passion And comely pleasure expectations O’ manuveures Landings and trepidation As a woman set to birth Yet weary Could not deliver Engine blowouts Bursts and frets O’ blabberings Descent announcements Sitbelt fiddlings As a banquet laid for […]
Poem Of The Week: Deathbed
By Nehi Igbinijesu. Calabashes, vats and bins Niftly seated in wipes and sniffs One quirky moonlit night And not a Spirit in sight Bemused! Bereft! Beset! All at once? By the spirited dark light Of reveries along ago Of cries that brought mirth once With toddles and strides Then stress! […]
Poem Of The Week: Letters From Serbia…
Left behind the border lines of fears and fate To die and rot, a state of triage To the gray skies we look, asking God why? The forgotten like a dusty book on a shelf A broken spirit, darkness, darker than a quarter past twelve With pity the moon gave us light Paper stained with […]
Poem of the Week: The Long Road Home
By Eru Kobe Godwin Eyes closed, a rush of cold wind, Wakes me up to a blur reality, Naked alone I came into this world, A frost of brown dust, innocence, an extension of heaven, Tender her palms, she caress with passion, Love from a Mother, Gentle, soothing like the hands of a porter, Her […]
Poem Of The Week: Love You When I Find Me
Tear drops, breaks the silence of the water Emotions lost between the waves of ripples My eyes don’t envy the beauty of my reflection My memories of nobody My heart an empty space Void and dark No footprint on the shores, no voices to trace Words I never said turned flat and cold Carry all […]
Poem Of The Week: Sleepy Hollow
Years pass, but her smell still lingers Her thoughts won’t leave me alone Echoes fill my wooden heart Potraits fading Illusion of her presence My fortress, smouldering A rose in a Concrete wall Broken Soul, petals wilting Afar in my dreams, her face I see Sweat and tears, wakes me up Lost in Oblivion No […]
Poem Of The Week: Now We Are Free
We serach for the truth Buried beneath all the lies In pursuit for lineage and root Voices of tears and cries Cold wind blows, mind branded with pains for so long Beyond reach and horizons We crave, waiting for the Sound of freedom In these field of treachery Love is far, we say our prayers, […]
Poem Of The Week: Colours Of The Night…
Say my Name, slowly her voice breaks all silence She’s a frost of exquisite dust Eye’s glow, in a state of quiesence The wind blows, her hair sways Rhythm from an open hall She twist and turns like a Geisha Curves perfectly revealing Shape of a Jewish guitar With the strings of her mind I […]
Poem Of The Week: The Day After…
She takes another step Slowly down the aisle she walks Painted with white roses, violet, shades of blue Eyes twitch, body quiver Tear drops from dark clouds, wishing it wasn’t true Silence so loud, heart beats Melancholic tone The wind lost its direction Illusions of his presence Another cold day in September All dressed in […]