Tag: Lion and Lilac
Book Review of THIS CITY KNOWS MY NAME by Abayomi Abiru
I sow my hope in the loam. Soon, I shall have A garden radiant with dreams… //Seedling In A New City Abayomi Abiru displays his transcendence as a poet and storyteller in his debut book; THIS CITY KNOWS MY NAME. With similes, metaphors and imagery guiding and exposing, the charm of words enshrined in […]
Sometimes I Wish It Could Always Be Day | REVIEW
Sometimes I Wish It Could Always Be Day is a collection of poems that feed the soul of every wandering reader. Poems in here do not fear challenging the thoughts of explorers on its canvas. This is a book of poignant lines with a message for the black and thriving soul. The author, Ajibade, definitely has […]
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 […]
Broken | JB Favour | Fiction
18/07/2021 Chains… Blood…. Tears…. Sweat…. These words might help you envision captivity or one needing rescue or freedom of some sorts. But maybe…just maybe you thought wrong. The one who truly needed rescuing isn’t in chains. At least not literally. But if you cared just enough to look harder for a second more… […]
Being Beautiful: Conversation With Toluwalope Molake, The Nigerian Artist Awakening African Pride And Identity With Hair by Adeola Gbalajobi
It is seven on a breezy Tuesday evening in Newcastle. The weather has been erratic all day. It would drizzle for a while and then give to a clear sky with a shy, lazy sun. I launch Zoom on my laptop. At the other end is Toluwalope Adebisi Molake on hazel brown, cowries adorned dreadlocks. […]
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 […]