Author: Lion and Lilac
Three Poems|Lynn White
Far Horizons, Distant Dreams Once the light shone so brightly that time and distance stretched for ever, the horizon at infinity strung with the pearls of distant dreams. And in between a hinterland of possibilities just waiting to be grasped. But then, as the light dimmed, time and distance collapsed inwards dragging the horizon […]
Two Poems|Stephen House
his cafe at midday i walk through the crowded inside room of his cafe and go to the backroom where we meet the two guys that work here must know what’s going on in the room or they wouldn’t let me in there is clarity about the safety of this […]
Two Poems|Oloyede Michael Taiwo
Election This candidate is parvenus stamped his face on a loaf of bread for a street to feast on fear and calumny clad his face and his cologne drips of impropriety; Incessantly dodging questions and queries slung at him by the masses His words were coquettish Only the street that had his coveted edifices […]
Four Poems|Psalmuel Benjamin Oluwasheun
WHEN YOU SEE A BOY CRY Boys don’t cry, only leak. the abs & chest are wide enough to hold a torrent after every lynch. When you see a boy cry, grief has just pinched his soul. This is a sour song of dark rhythm– Its lyric is aligned with bitterness, & aches, […]
A Tale of Two Women|Oluwadunsin Deinde-Sanya|Essay
A Tale of Two Women Last year, my grandaunt died. She was living with some of my father’s cousins in a state far away from Western Nigeria but her corpse had to be brought here. To her home and her people. On the night she died, we were sitting in the darkness our […]
Four Poems|Paul Tanner
welcome to the Chrysomelidae family wanna bag? I ask. no, he says. so I scan his stuff up and tell him the price and he taps his card against the machine and there’s the beep and the receipt comes chugging out and then he goes oh actually, I will have a bag, […]
Three Poems|Peniel Gifted
I HAD ONCE I had once loved life For its zippy smiles Racing like cool igloos To my quacking fry. I had once sat Under the dismal roofs Of soaring trees, Here and there, looking. I had once crammed Particles with fickles In the greyish table Of brownish felt. Of course, I […]
Four Poems|Peycho Kanev
Reminder You must always be—you always have to be yourself. Each branch on the trees outside is different from the rest, every leaf, too. Each puddle of mud reflect the moon in its own way. The fire in the stove is never the same. The cold, too. The world is ubiquitous, the world […]
October sunset |Ramachandran M A |Poetry
east window– how many moons in the courtyard? October sunset– how many sunsets in me father? how long have you been here in the air father? who is murmuring it tonight in my ears, father? over the eastern hill full moon tonight– where could you go in an evening like this […]
Three Poems|Shana Ross
Edge I went out early ahead of the rain thinking this will motivate me to run faster to beat the storm home I found myself alone on the trails this weather is not for the faint-hearted the air swirls warm and cold the sky dark heavy coming towards us and I’m running, running to […]