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One Poem By Riak Marial Riak 

Riak Marial Riak is a South Sudanese poet and writer. His work has been featured in Brittle Paper, Eunoia Review, African Writer Magazine, Nthanda Review, and elsewhere. The origin of water  and the gleaming pools  bubble  bright when its shores woke  frozen by night wind …

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One Poem By Obongofon Etuk 

Obongofon Etuk is a passionate poet and a student of pharmacy at the University of Uyo. Writing poems has been his creative outlet, and he draws inspiration from the works of renowned poets like Shakespeare. IN WHAT MEASURE DOTH DESCENT BEFALL… In what measure doth…

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One Poem By Olajide Olawale 

Olajide Olawale is a communication and language arts student at the prestigious University of Ibadan, Nigeria. Echoes of the Soul As twilight’s tender touch envelopes all Where shadows dance with whispers of grace, I wander through realms of poetic thought, Where words unfurl, untamed and…

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Two Poems By Dayọ̀ Ayílárá 

Dayọ̀ Ayílárá is a lawyer, business consultant, cartoonist, graphics designer and calligrapher. He writes from Abuja, Nigeria. His poetry focuses on nature, the beauty in pain, hope, love, and loss. The Butterfly Life Circle (For Justina Babade) I remember the day (on this road called…

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Two Poems By Olaseni Kehinde Precious 

Olaseni Kehinde Precious embodies the multifaceted roles of a poet, content writer, blockchain researcher, and SEO specialist. Mother’s Radiance A majestic oak blooming towards the heavens Like a sapling breaking through the fertile soil An Unwavering lioness cradled me A luminescence in life’s labyrinth Through…

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One Poem By Sarah Adeyemo 

Sarah Adeyemo is a budding poet, student, avid reader, literary enthusiast, and guitarist. She writes from Ekiti, Nigeria.  Fragments of a Broken Voice I rise with balls of sweat, Flowing down in torrents Through my cheekbones, Down to my palpitating chest. Who can read words…

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One Poem By Mubarak Said 

Mubarak Said is the 3rd runner-up (poetry category) of the 2022 Bill Ward Prize for Emerging Writers. His works are forthcoming and published in World Voices Magazine, Brittle Paper, Icefloe Press, and elsewhere. Last Word About The Polls Anything I start to love  hates me….

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Two Poems By Nkemdilim Lilian 

Nkemdilim Lilian is a poet, calligrapher, and novelist who hails from Anambra state. She is a final-year Law student at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. She is passionate about writing. Brother  Here, where I know not a soul,  Not even mine. There, where they dashed…

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Eboquills Annual Anthology Launch 

We’re so excited to announce that Eboquills has launched an annual anthology. The submissions window opens today, 30th June 2023, and closes on 31st July 2023. For 2023, our anthology will be a curation of fine poetry- all forms of poetry. Theme: Our Girls: Their…

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One Poem By Abubakar Shittu 

Abubakar Shittu is a 22-year-old from Ilorin, Kwara State. Our Mothers Will Smile On a day the tree leaves will stand erect, Facing up in their colorful green and yellow, just like the smile forming on each mother’s face, their joy knowing no bounds. Countless…

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One Poem By Olamilekan Yusuf 

Olamilekan Yusuf is an emerging poet, who is also an undergraduate at the University of Ilorin, where he pursues a degree in biochemistry. Colors of Hope Today, I learned that light is light Even when it is short-lived, this lesson Began with syllables that cut…

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One Poem By Abdulbasit Oluwanishola 

Abdulbasit Oluwanishola is a young Nigerian poet who writes from Ilorin, Kwara State. He’s studying Agriculture at Usmanu Dafodiyo University Sokoto. Portrait of a Broken Home Carry the night & you are lost.      —AbdulRazaq Salihu The day your sister carried the shadow &               darkness ripened…

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One Poem By Raymond Favour 

Raymond Favour is an 18-year-old from Ito, Ika Local Government Area, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. Fighting Demons This smiling face camouflages a desert of grief- a heart bleeding from cuts engineered by scalpels clinging to the hand of people I tag loved ones. You see,…

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One Poem By Joemario Umana 

Joemario Umana is a creative writer and poet, whose poem “an iroko tree with fiery beards” is forthcoming in the anthology publication of NSPP 2022. Tears is not a Metaphor for Weakness  The sleepy lantern trying to stay awake and the crickets with the frogs…

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Two Poems By Abiodun Salako 

Abiodun Salako (he/him) is a Nigerian Journalist, Copywriter, and Resident- at-Sea. In his spare time, he daydreams of Eden. Weekdays At The Home of Our Bones It’s just me and you,  drinking milk like adolescence,  frothing at the mouth with snacks,  and using our faces…

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Two Poems by Ahmed Aisha 

Ahmed Aisha is is a Nigerian poet, a computer science student at Oscotech, and an Auditor of the Association of Nigerian Authors, Osun State chapter. Program To Calculate My Grief Using C+ Language  Question: Calculate your grief using C+ language. /*a program to calculate my…

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Two Poems By Alobu Emmanuel 

Alobu Emmanuel alias Noble Alobu, believes nature holds a great deal of magic. His pieces & poems are featured/forthcoming in “agape review”, “nantygreens”, “celestite poetry”, and elsewhere. SongFlower. —for Victoria. When you sing, the Nightingale listens in a bid to steal your tunes. Songbirds flutter…

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ÀLÀKÉ By Dayò Ayílárá 

Dayò Ayílárá is a lawyer, business consultant, cartoonist, content writer, graphics designer and calligrapher. ÀLÀKÉ À-l-à-k-é, when I first gulped the litres of your beauty through the funnel of my eyes i knew I was under fire, your petrol tanker has set my wool heart…

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One Poem By Arikewusola Abdul Awal 

Arikewusola Abdul Awal hails from Shaki, Oyo state. His poems have appeared on ilamagazine.net, williwashpress.com. Teen Lit journals, and elsewhere. Paper Bird (To Father) Tell me, Is this the beginning of another end? Every morning I see your bloodshot eyes aiming at the lekeleke birds…

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Two Poems By Aloysius S Harmon 

Aloysius S Harmon is an emerging poet who writes from Liberia. Their work of poetry have been included in Synchronized Chaos’s issue, Spillwords, Eve Poetry Magazine, and elsewhere. The Day Her Body Went Mute death swallowed my grandmother when i was twelve. some memories hunt…

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Two Poems by Dayò Ayílárá 

Dayò Ayílárá is a lawyer, business consultant, cartoonist, graphics designer, and calligrapher. He writes from Abuja, Nigeria. His poetry focuses on nature, the beauty in pain, hope, love, and loss. Old Garment I have to be full of play put my old garment away let…

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One Poem By Ayiyi Joel 

Ayiyi Joel is a 19-year-old poet from Edo state in Nigeria. He has works published/forthcoming on Synchronized chaos, cathartic lit, The Beatnik cowboy, poemify, Nnoko stories, and elsewhere. Boys are tender too Again  Another star  Fell from the sky. At the college hostel. A body…

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Two Poems By Olalekan Hussein 

OLALEKAN HUSSEIN, NGP VI is an emerging poet who writes from Lagos, Nigeria, where he studies in the Arabic/Islamic institution, Darul Falah. Autopsy for Dead Flowers What name do I give everything around me that got swept by a grasping air after telling God not…

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One Poem By Michael H. Brownstein 

Michael H. Brownstein’s latest volumes of poetry, A Slipknot to Somewhere Else (2018) and How Do We Create Love (2019) were both published by Cholla Needles Press. In addition, he has appeared in Last Stanza, Café Review, American Letters and Commentary, Skidrow Penthouse, Xavier Review,…

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Two Poems by Fatihah Quadri Eniola 

Fatihah Quadri Eniola writes from Nigeria. She is a member of HCAF (Hilltop creative arts foundation), Black Girls’Tales, and Nibstears Poetry Cave. Tango Drip by drip,  the world trickle into a body of water. The drops  echo in the tranquil air, ventilating the  amused hearts…

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Two Poems By Bisola Bada 

Bisola Bada is a Business Psychologist and writer from Nigeria. She writes about the intersection of life, beauty, love, and everything in between; she writes especially for the girl child. I forgive myself in pleasing patriarchy I am a sinner but I forgive myself because…

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A Poem By Thadeus Emmanuel 

Thadeus Emmanuel is a writer, poet, and critic. He is a student of Economics at the Taraba State University, Jalingo, Taraba State. The Poem My Mother Used to Write Me Tell me,    have you ever        watched your mother, on a cold afternoon—       …

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One Poem By Olayioye Paul Bamidele 

Olayioye Paul Bamidele is a writer and a student of mass communication. His works have appeared or forthcoming in Spillword, Lunaris, Artlounge, Afreecan, Ice Floe, Terror House, and elsewhere.  Everything Names Me everything names me – grief, pentecostal babel, spittle gun,  vodka speech on the…

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One Poem By Adamu Yahuza 

Adamu Yahuza is a budding poet and spoken word artist from Kwara State, Nigeria. His poem, ‘Catalogue of memories’ has been nominated by Oneblackboylikethat Review for 2023 best of the Net Prize. A stranger once knocked on our door & went with my voice watch…

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A Poem by Fatihah Quadri 

Fatihah Quadri is a Nigerian Poet, creative writer, and literary critic. She is a member of the Hilltop Creative Arts Foundation. She writes from Ibadan, Oyo State. Dear heathen I would have loved to speak to God in your name, You were overdone That your…

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One Poem By Meshack Ifada 

Meshack Ifada is eighteen years. He is an aspiring poet from Nigeria with works in Brittle Paper, Spill Words Press, Jalada, and elsewhere. Principle of Water & it is true; the fruitlessness of washing the knees. I know what i please to not be deliverance….

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A Tribute by Benyeakeh Miapeh 

This soulful tribute to Abunic Sheriff whose works Eboquills had previously published is moving. Benyeakeh Miapeh writes from the heart, lamenting a talent snatched too soon by death. We pray that the soul of the departed finds rest. A Broken Lament For Abunic  you told…

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One Poem by Toluwalogo Niji-Olawepo 

Toluwalogo Niji-Olawepo is a writer from Nigeria who finds expression in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. She is also a medical student. 219, 000 Hours 140,160 was the beginning of flowers blooming. The uprising of bending branches, heeding the call of the bright sunlight. 157,680…

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One Poem by Ismail Yusuf Olumoh 

Ismail Yusuf Olumoh is a Nigerian creative writer and teacher, poet, spoken word artiste, graphics designer, content creator, and video editor. He writes from Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria. This is how I pray [after Sodiq Oyekanmi & Yahuza AbdulKadir] each day the sky gown quintuples,…

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One Poem By Wisdom Adedeji 

Wisdom Adedeji, NGP xi, is a Nigerian genre-bending writer. He studies Geography at the Unversity of Ibadan and writes from there. Repentance I sit on the palm of God, & toy with the devil’s testicles. There is no space in hell again, & right now,…

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One Poem By Salim Yakubu Akko 

“The Funeral of Grief” by Salim Yakubu Akko is a searchlight for wellness and stability or its remnants in a chaotic nation. The poet’s simple language is beautifully embroidered with poetic expressions. Kwaghkule, Jacob – Contributing Editor (Poetry)  The Funeral of Grief i want to…

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One Poem By Moses Victor Jassa  

“Struggle from the Wag” by Moses Victor Jassa examines alcoholism. The poet paints a vivid picture of a liquor addict with related imagery and beautiful metaphors. I am delighted to share this piece with you. Kwaghkule, Jacob – Contributing Editor (Poetry)  Struggle from the Wag I…

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One Poem By Alshaad Kara 

Alshaad Kara’s poetry is a window into broken souls. His poem, “Ictus” leaves one marveling at how pain can be beautifully woven into poetry. It is a pleasure to share this incredible piece with you. Kwaghkule Jacob – Contributing Editor (Poetry) ICTUS I filled my…

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Two Poems By The Dark Poet 

The Dark Poet’s poems- “Uninvited Guest” and “Past glory” – are lamentations of untimely encounter with death. Written in honor of victims of fate, these poems contain ‘graphic pictures’ of how people stepped out armed with hopes and dreams only to meet death. Kwaghkule Jacob Contributing…

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One Poem By Judith Maikaho 

Judith Maikaho, through her poem “Before It’s Too Late,” views the world through eco-critical lenses. Her poem is cautionary because it sends a strong warning note to all abusers of Earth and Mother Nature. I am very happy to share this work with you. Kwaghkule,…

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One Poem By Olowo Qudus 

Olowo Qudus’ poem is a representation of a thousand dreams and their point of convergence. It depicts the fate(s) of sojourners, the stories they string along as they journey, and the trouble of the road. Olowo Qudus does a good job at capturing the most…

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One Poem By Anderson Moses 

Anderson Moses has succeeded in breaking conventionalism in traditional poetry. His poem “I will Re-teach my Tongue how to Remember a Boy” is brewed with originality by which a modern but old story of sadness, grief, and pain is unveiled with mastery. Kwaghkule, Jacob –…

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Two Poems By F. O. C. Ikwuemesibe 

These two poems by F.O.C Ikwuemesibe are rich with relatable imageries that provoke reflection on the COVID-19 pandemic and environmental consciousness. Each line reverberates with a certain tenderness that is difficult to name. I am very delighted to share these beautiful pieces with you. Ehi-kowoicho…

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One Poem By Abrahim Bah 

In this poem, Abrahim Bah chants a dirge for unrequited love and the incessant turbulence of a love affair, especially such as have the weight of the romance resting too heavily on one lover. Clearly, the poetic persona, a victim of a one-way-traffic love, is…

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One Poem By Omodero David 

“Sugar on wet Sand” by Omodero David is experimental and daring. The teen poet seems set to take the poetry community by storm and our fingers are crossed. – Editorial Team Sugar on wet Sand “The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places;Surely…

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A love Poem By Abas Dan 

We know that if love was a god, only poets would qualify to be its priests. We are thrilled to share the love poem, “Letter to Ronke”, by Abas Dan. – Editorial team Letter to Ronke Dear Ronke, Cuddle me tonight,for last night my mat…

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Two Poems By Ogah Friday David 

In “Portraits” and “Colours”, Ogah Friday David writes about love and memories. The poems are sensational and such a delight to read. – Editorial team Portraits I paint on your shadow/ a cloudof lilac metaphors/ portraits of ovatekisses round the rim of your waist in…

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Two Poems By Ifenaike IfeAyomipo 

Rhythmic. Moving. Fantastic wordplay. These poems are best adopted for a stage performance but they still sit on the page with so much grace. Ifenaike IfeAyomipo is a refreshing voice. – Editorial team Recycling my father knows these men. I know them too,history tucks their…

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Two Poems By Bobbybryan Uzoma 

Life teaches many lessons via ordinary things and poets often volunteer themselves to harvest and share these lessons with the world. We are pleased to see how Bobbybryan Uzoma does this in these two brilliant poems. – Editorial Team You never know what you get…

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Two Poems By Joshua James Onuh 

Poetry is not always about the aesthetics of concrete poems and the symphony of rhymed verses. Sometimes, it is didactic. Other times, it documents the Afro-wits and wisdom passed down by our ancestors. This is what Joshua James Onuh does with his poetry. These two…

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Two Poems By Akeem S.A 

Documenting the times and seasons in lines and in verses is the obsession of fine poets, and Akeem S.A is not an exception. In these poems, “The Lads Rising, the Monarchs Falling” and “Wrecked Dream” he writes about the state of affairs in his home…

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Sacrilege By Shitta Faruq Ademola 

Shitta Faruq Ademola’s poem, Sacrilege narrates the girlchild’s plight with sharp imagery. He wears the rather tight shoes, which fate gifts women, and takes a few steps, and recounts the feeling which came with every stride in lines and in verses. Sacrilege a pleasant poem…

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A Tale of Two Cowards 

Written By: Samuel Adeyemi today, i am more splinter than bone,more shard than glass. i wouldrather break than bend for at leastthere is a finality. the pages of my life flip above thecandlelight; chapters charring to grey,though the paper hasn’t lowered into theflame. isn’t torture…

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The First Twilight & the First Hand 

Written By: Nwàohà Chíbúzor Anthony The Poet, Nwàohà Chíbúzor Anthony tells a melancholic ‘story’ in the poem, “The First Twilight & the First Hand”. Love and loss, two powerful and universal themes are central in this piece. The emotion every line evokes is powerful! In…

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Death Unmasked (Covid 19) 

Written By: Eduardo De Bosco The Liberian poet, Eduardo writes about the new tempo of life in Liberia since the pandemic. The closing lines are full of hope and positive vibes. This is a beautiful poem written in the form of a letter to the…

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Fireflies 

Written By: Franklyn Orode A professional civil engineer and poet writes a poem about nature Often they come on some forlorn eveningsThese distant relatives of the sparkling starsOut in the open field like innocent childrenPlaying on rainy days, oblivious of our painMyriads of fragile angels…

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Blood on the Wall 

Written by: Edwin Olu Bestman A Liberian poet writes about COVID-19 and the situation of things in Liberia Here we are againLosing our love onesIt’s raining harshly in our cityCOVID -19 ruining our homesAnd tears rolling off the windowpane Silent screams!Different voices playing in our…

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Diary Of A Boy Wearing A Frown 

Written By: Abuoya Eruot  i want to vacate earth without experiencing death each friday sermon,i yearn for a place that’s not even safe for god in plain language,my depression makes me tiptoe/jump out of my body into heaven/ for a dire aid but the atmosphere spins at…

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Sickle Cell Is the New Tribe 

Written By: Jeremy T. Karn for bijoux  you’ve heard about flowers thatgrow in the dirt.   there are flowers with thorns that grow in thebones & some that grow in your aunt’sbackyard garden     every morning as you fix yourbones in your body & dress for the…

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The Phantom’s Refrain 

Written By: Samuel Adeyemi A boy walks into a bar,swings the door openlike he is the wind’s first child.But a boy has no mother.The world commits another absurd adoption.A boy is another loose string on the cello,another wrong piano note,whose sound is swallowed in the…

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A Thing Too Stressed 

Written By: Precious Uwen when we started loving it was like we got new clothes. and we’d never stain it. But we wore our love repeatedly for days without changing it. We wore our love with the same pattern, with the same style. The same…

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BARE 

Written By: Oluwafemi Babasola Baby, I’ll walk this bridgeto you,even if all my feet feelis a thread strong as thespider’s web. Baby, I’ll fly to you,even if it means divingfrom this cliff withuntested wings. I’ll lift these layers of skinsthat cover me.I’ll unveil these masks…

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My Crush is a Black Hole 

Written By: Naphtali Festus Adda 1:13 am.i think of Prudence. how she flashes her teeth. how she weaves words like a basket. her beauty. her baritone voice – my phone rings, it’s another message from Quora digest, it reads; what is a black hole? //…

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To My Next Abuser 

Written By: John Chizoba Vincent When next you come stretchingyourself into a different nameless river,I beg to connect to your tide and waves,do not force me to spread my legsagain like those that came before youdid; I have not seen my period afterMallam Musa’ prayers…

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I am a chalice 

Written By: Maxwell Opia-Enwemuche I am a chalice full of sweet wine & my wine is for my priest, a priest I will yield my body & soul. Do not desire me for pleasure; look beyond my enticing hour-glass body & embrace my conscious cerebral…

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Meditation on Writing 

Written by: Pamilerin Jacob I fail miserablyat my most beloved habit. Suddenly, a stone is a stone. A cloud is a cloud. &the water in my cup possesses no ancient history. Not a symbol. Nota metaphor. The mornings are stripped clean of magic: birds, no…

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1967 

Written By: Samuel Junior Irusota (In Memory of Victims of War) Here: parents go to bed with no hope Of seeing their children in the morning Here, everywhere you go, all you see  is a basket of Bones__ Here, children are left homeless & defenseless…

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of rejection letters 

Written by: Olaewe D Opeyemi i must admit, i do not know too much about letters — any kind of letters except for the ones i was forced to write in school, the one WAEC asked us to write, the ones i wrote in farewell…

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Will You Still Be Family? 

By Joshua Tom A minor chord and then an arpeggio like a blonde on balé a question danced on my broken heart. When the melody goes to bed and there’s no strum or click, when our world goes silent will you still be Family? Oh!…

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Gabriel Dkings: Slavery 

Once we were slavesSold to the tragedy of lifeBeaten by the rain of sorrowSailed on the boat of difficultyLost in the forest of fearFound in the middle of confusion Where frustration became our new names Our minds were chained with liesSo we sang songs with…

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Gideon Emmanuel: Cobwebs 

How do our lives dangle in the scale of fate, Scared of a balanced end in the trap of death How does our conscience lay ambush to our trust And our mistakes like preys, lay When shall our thoughts be free from lust And our…

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The Editor’s ‘No’ or Nod 

Last night, the editor looked through a pile of poems, where mine hid, with a smear of mama’s anointing oil, wrapped in the first prayer I mumbled after my last rejection. (Is there even a thing as last rejection? Is rejection not a long endless…

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A POET’S SOLILOQUY 

“When tears are in your eyes, It’s time to look inside, Your heart will find another way” –Enya Are poems not the pallbearers of a poet’s dead dreams & hopes? I am awed by the way they donate their shoulders to bear the pain Of…

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THIS IS HOW I MADE MY WINGS 

With sunken eyes in tired sockets, a girl ran after her father’s sigh; seized it, slit its throat, hid the blood-stained knife in a lawn of solitude & became the dream her father had on the night of her conception. She remembers her mother’s words,…

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AN ECHO OF SILENCE 

Because we do not preserve memories from decay By immersing them in vessels filled with formalin, I tried to remember you today- your smell, your kiss The beats and lyrics of the songs you said your heart Sang for me, but I can’t remember any….

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THE NEW DEATH MANUAL 

Pain is like alcohol. I do not know how many shots gets you tipsy, But the first time life served me shots of pain, I staggered home, entered into a poem & passed out. At dawn, mother dispelled the hangover with these words: “Daughter, pain…

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AN ARTIFACT OF A GROIN WAR 

Ekoja’s body was a haunted house. Haunted: by a glowing darkness; by a cocktail of voices fading into silence; by footsteps echoing a numbing pain. [You’ll never know that scars are ghosts until your deepest wounds die but you still hear their voices in your…

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STICKY NOTES 

We read the sticky notes on her wall today, “What separation technique is used To separate pain from life?” “How does a fish who lost its gills survive? Does it befriend the tides or surrender to The fangs of the waters?” “As a man releases…

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Even Death Has Regrets 

This is a slightly revised version of a poem published by Parousia Magazine in 2018. We thought to share this with you in the spirit of Easter. Enjoy this sizzling Easter poem! Stuck in the throat of the wind is a song, a dirge for…

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To woo a man 

Who said a woman must sit still like a statue or sculptured image under the tree of love and wait till the wind of fate blows down bat-eaten fruits into her outstretched hands? Who said a woman cannot stand upon her feet like a human…

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Shrines 

Today, a cold sinner will find warmth by sitting around the fire in a pastor’s mouth. but this sinner knows not that communion is a purgative which causes constipation, so he’d eat one piece of bread, and his tongue longs for another, then a drop…

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One of you 

Do not ask me again Why I hop from tree to tree like a monkey It is because I am in a frantic search For healing herbs for my bedridden country And just as the thunder’s applause welcomes the rain And the torch of lightening…

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Tell Papa 

Ujunwa, have they told papa that I am a story wrapped in a parcel, Held in place by a colorful ribbon of tears? Did papa believe them when they told him, That I am the ashes of burnt dreams, Waiting to be whisked away by…

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A Letter to Dawn 

As soon as mama weaned me
Papa stood by the corners of my mouth
With a gourd, full of wisdom
And told me; “Drink, my child, drink!
For life is a journey through a desert
Where there are no oases.”

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Come Watch Me, Dance Naked 

Jaachi, I am the tree which died in the seedlings you refused to tend. I am a memory you cannot drown in a keg of palm-wine, for like a feather, I will float upon the rivers of your thoughts till you recall and regret the night when you abandoned a broken flute at the village square, for I am that flute and wholeness found me in the hands of a drummer boy who lost his drumsticks.

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Bonfire 

God is like that favorite red dress she got on her tenth birthday. she loves it so much but it no longer fits. Her father never stopped saying she was a poem he wrote in her mother’s body & forgot its lines. So when he…

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BRITTLE 

my father’s voice is a dark hole. when I was six, I fell into it, tasted his liquid darkness and I became a light- too bright for the prying eyes of dawn. In my sojourn, I have climbed seven mountains of tears and crossed ten…

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Derivatives of Silence 

. a lady is holding god’s obituary- she painted it on a canvas of pain with the crayons of his silence she is saying; “i’m not an artist but i watched god die in the tears of a little boy, who was born with a…

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