Category: Poetry
Post-Partum | Oloyede Michael Taiwo
pro caffeinating in the throes of this whitlow in my head, rheumy, blustering, sharp; suffused in a maelstrom of emotions this pain is oval, a tear in the gum large at the base turbulent, with a curved face, and vertices symmetrical to an Alzheimer’s wreckage a swoon in the long in the tooth soot of […]
Two Poems | Linda Crate
brought every fire i saw the fissures of your soul, and i blamed myself; but you are responsible for yourself— saw you walking in hell in one of my dreams, and i cried; but now i see why you were walking in the darkness alone it is what you have earned for […]
Two Poems | Lynn White
Do You Remember Do you remember when the future stretched endlessly ahead, when the older looked forward to a contented retirement and the younger to all the joys of life and living. Now the mists are down swamping everyone in a gloomy miasma and the future is closing in moving closer and closer, a […]
Four Poems| John Grey
THE GUITAR I pick up the guitar for no particular reason. It’s an old friend that I’ve neglected these past few years. I start with a simple e-chord, strum with the back of my fingers. I listen to the blend of strings, then pluck them one by one with my stunted nails. I prefer the […]
Four Poems| A. K. Genova
I No Longer Wear Coats Someone yanked my coat from my chair. The chair rolled out from under my bottom. I bottomed. My coccyx crunched. I’ve never conceded to so much as a serape since. Once coats calmed me like bluebirds or Tony Bennet, the coat of his tongue. A bounty of belts laced my […]
Four Poems| Januário Esteves
1 The disgrace that hangs in the air, That also brings the negligence of harm How slowly steamed the sweat Running down the windows of cornification Often composing priesthood pleonasms Using sweet potatoes as contraceptives To stop the human overpopulation Whose will occur from memory that is damned In muffled cries of rock calcinations, In […]
A Booktiful Love epitomises poetic-storytelling in a conscious manner
Reviewer: Emmanuel Ojex It’s okay to start small– Little beginnings with no endpoint in sight A Booktiful Love makes for a wonderful journey read. The author, Tolu Akinyemi, goes out of his way to touch the heart, eyes and soul of the reader of the book. From the very first poem in the collection, […]
A Poet Craves for a Better Society in “A Constellation of Cravings”
Poets are the conscience of society and they are fond of using their poetic voices to affect society positively. Oluwaseun Alele, the author of “A Constellation of Cravings” makes a case for the importance of poets to make society a better place for us all. The first poem we will analyse in this review […]
Missionary Might As Well Have Two Meanings – A Review Of Silk Psalms
Authors: Jide Badmus & Alozor Michael Ikechukwu Publisher: Inkspired The topic of passion is often not discussed in Nigeria. We are a nation that does not talk about sex except in hushed tones and with innuendos. This is the status quo that Jide Badmus and Alozor Michael upset with this chapbook and what makes it […]
Four Poems| Katrenia Busch
The Oracle of Birds For air is to peace Earth is to war This here I now release Whether close or from afar Division found at my feet Different at the ground Congealed at my head, the clouds throne, their seat Where the air itself is found For war is awakened in […]