Poem of the Week: The Great Divorce
By Nehi Igbinijesu The throng of loving singing To a sire once beloved Pretty-so very pretty That He gave both sky and all To rule and guide Both beast and clime Seconding only Jove Then pride crept filled With dance and feats That made “me” not need us To chide and wield All that […]
Poem: Memories of Nobody
By Kobe Eru Godwin Besides still waters I lay Quiet, Calm like the silence of the lamb With broken words and a rusty crucifix I pray Cold breaths expel, break the gathering of air On the edge of pain and desire Shadows lost in the dark, mind so unclear My thoughts run so deep, […]
Poem: The First Time
By Kobe Eru Godwin Never like the first time we met Eyes like Diamonds in a field of snow Never like the first words she said Like pathway created by water, she flows Never like the first walk we had Moments to remember, the wind behind our back A cold day in September Never […]
Poem: Anthem of a Lost Tribe
By Kobe Eru Godwin No sound from distance chant No symphony from holy house of worship No mothers call, no babies cry Few hands to hold when fathers die No bravery In silence, with broken tongues, prayers we say to lost souls Names engraved on head stones This land painted by the hand of […]
Poem: Thorns and Roses
By Kobe Eru Godwin Words gentle, calm like a whisper in the wind But cut so deep Her presence so close, a slice of Utopia But far from reach Immaculate like an Angel, but still, a slash of scarlet in a field of snow Her arms an Oasis, but her heart, bare like the Sahara […]
Poem: The Rejected Ones
By Pamela Agboga I never knew it would hurt this long You said it would be sweet, and sweet it was, but not for long nine months’ pain and shame but now it’s past, now at last I find my joy again. They never told me it would take this long But glorious […]
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: CHILDREN OF A FADING SONG
By Eru Kobe Godwin Through scars we came A lost Origin In tears we reign A tale with no beginning In dreams we find solace The darkness came with hope Tributaries of pain We ran from the beacon of worries A House far from home We knew not the presence of a Father Like a […]