Poem of the Week: And the Strongman Died
By Nehi Igbinijesu What relief got we When the strongman died For life thought we Came here him with Debasing, demanded, demeaned With plot and posh plunder Arts livid and lying wonders Lorded quilt recklessly Cried fretful, and squealed For blood, sweet and stay Yet in death- humbled Vociferously liver hushed Laid to rest, quadrangled […]
Poem of the Week: The Morality of Compromise
By Nehi Igbinijesu What thought we’d never do Did we shameless-loathed Abased but our janus appeased Straddled along frigid banisters And lonely staircases creaking With sounds disorderly No inhibitions- no cares Forgetful of nuptial daliiances Wreaking gleefully at rompous booty To stay alive pleasuring At a gun’s barrel headward Of a knackered-brained killer Moralising […]
Poem of the Week: The Me You Love Again- A Tribute to my Beloved Nigeria
By Nehi Igbinijesu Fifty years now passed And still there’s me Yes- the part you couldn’t steal Then dumped muted The core of my earth enthralled Satiated in its own reclusion Away from the fermentation Of hurt, wounds, calumny Of what not I was And strove with malignantly Then warred and thawed Into a lease […]
Poem: Acres of Hope
By Kobe Eru Godwin Tears cascade from the bags of eyelids To rough of chin, black and salty No rain drops to quench the thirst of vengence Sleep, far from the bosom of our comfort To the heavens, fingers tangled, mothers pray, broken words Echoes of fear Fathers, gnash, another headstone Scribbles of eulogy, break […]
Poem of the Week: An Oshodi-Bound Driver Crazed
By Nehi Igbinijesu The blare, horns, blare And the angered, frustrated faces Listless- Ridden with unwinding care Useless words and many swear phrases Cleft and sea befuddling Bemused at files like ants at a sugarhill And the peace languidly debased Both noised and fumed From an Oshodi-bound driver crazed Then a creaked shatter Alone behind […]
Poem of the Week: Conversation with Dooshima
By Nehi Igbinijesu Achelenu: So she met another one In the wake I thought, I loved She could look straight no longer Into eyes that once Made soul and heart wonder For what it was worth She did not even linger Now fight me alone The pointings of many fingers The taste of […]
Poem of the Week: The Kraken and Mr. Dove
By Nehi Igbinijesu Come dine with me Mr. Dove And we will many a problem solve Bring the mountains down to valleys Evading mudslides and darkened alleys And we will crouch under the oaks Having drunk our fill from flinty rocks Sweetened by the breezy rush O misty waterfalls in biosterious flush […]
Poem of the Week: O Twisted Twenty Twelve
By Nehi Igbinijesu Go from us, thou fleeting year Depart with all your fear The blood, and grim for all we care Your time was all but fair Tarry not a dreary day longer They bombed, some died And the rest pointed fingers During weeks you did provide You a dirge I write […]
Poem of The Week: The Dyslexic Heartbreak
By Nehi Igbinijesu Yes we aren’t picture perfect And hours on end we quit Yet our hearts beat in sync Our dreams draw us knit Wondering what others think And if we meant this be Scared by the messy mix Verboten blowouts bring Crazy with a love unreturned And the dyslexic heartbreak Of living green […]
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: 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: 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, […]
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Poem of the Week: Broken Silence
Hiding my sorrows and covering my smiles
But after a while, you will learn the subtle difference between
Holding a hand and chaining a soul
You learn that Love doesn’t mean leaning
And company doesn’t mean security
You begin to learn that kisses aren’t contracts
And presents aren’t promises
You begin to accept your defeat