Category: Poetry
Amife Sabatina’s Little Words- A breath of Fresh Air
Words influence us, whether miniscule or piercing words. And as writers, we are duty bound to write those words. Amife Sabatina’s debut shows a writer on a mission. And we can evidence the mission right from the first page–where the poet enjoins us to: Hurry and make a story. Hurry! A quick moment and it’ll […]
A REVIEW OF JIDE BADMUS’ OBALÚAYÉ BY EUGENE YAKUBU
Title: Obalúayé Author: Jide Badmus Genre: Poetry Publisher: FlowerSong Press Year of Publication: 2022 ISBN: 978-1-953447-48-7 No. of Pages: 65 Reviewer: Eugene Yakubu Badmus’ ability to disturb our long-held ideals on love, power and lust remains undiminished in Obalúayé, his third collection of poetry. He has cemented his […]
Review of I Wear Self-Confidence Like a Second Skin
Reviewer: Adeola Gbalajobi Written with a simple, singsong approach, author Tolu Akinyemi’s ‘I Wear Self-Confidence Like a Second Skin’ is a book that will delight every young reader who is learning to fall in love with words. A beautiful story about young Matilda who learns to be confident in every situation, ‘I Wear Self-Confidence […]
Four Poems | Tim Kahl
The Little Angel There was one little angel with a tricked-out wing that hung on the tree. Every year it got stuck in the back and stared at the wall. There are too many milkweed pod birds on this damn thing, the angel cried, and birds weren’t even part of the manger scene. The […]
Three Poems | Yuan Changming
Mindful Mindset 1/ Here: Into the Reality You see, here’s the leaf dyed with the full Spectrum of autumn; here’s the dewdrop Containing all the dreams made on the Darkest corner of last night; here’s the Light pole in the forest where gods land From another higher world; here’s the swirl You can […]
Four Poems | Donna Pucciani
Alessandro, Five Months Old In twenty years, your old American auntie will be dead—or wishing she were— and you will be a young man strutting your stuff in the streets of Madrid, turning heads in tavernas or at the university where your English spangles the campus of Romance tongues. Your pants […]
Four Poems | PW Covington
Vampire Conditions These are vampire conditions, Brian Pulling in all manner of matter and kindness Taking it all, letting nothing escape The many varieties of vampire Stalking through William Burroughs’ Western Lands Through Milky Way Los Angeles…and worse Vampirism is as American As the Internet Always taking more than giving Dead and dying, always more […]
Four Poems | Ramachandran M A
This Time this time you set off for a house in the shadow of a leaf this time you stand in a house that doesn’t exist still this time you open a door and a window to the garden this time in the leaf-fall this time neither your father […]
Once Upon A Virus – A Work Of Art Inspired By A Poet’s Survival Of The Pandemic That Rocked The World
Reading poems as a child was such a bore sometimes. Though I read them quite often, I never enjoyed it. I was never a fan. It was as if they hid the written words in a painted veil waiting to be unmasked by the reader-a daunting chore I felt I wasn’t yet ready for. Even […]
Affection & Other Accidents – A Poet’s Grief and Vulnerability watermarked in this collection of poems
Reviewer: Creative Titan Dami Ajayi’s latest release “Affection & Other Accidents” is his third volume of poems, after his first volume “Clinical Blues” and his second collection, “A Woman’s Body is a Country” which were released to great acclaim. This new release reveals a poet at the peak of his literary powers. Like the […]