River Moon By Om Carter: A Lyrical Journey of Love, Healing, and Melanin Magic
River Moon by Om Carter is a hymnal of love, hope, and healing. It contains a hymn for everyone who delights in the warmth and peace of blissful romantic companionship. I experienced the sheer magic of watching whole love stories sit gorgeously in the poems…
Àdùké: A Poem By Dayò Ayílárá
Dayò Ayílárá writes from Abuja, Nigeria. His poetry focuses on nature, the beauty in pain, hope, love, and loss. To measure your smile i will take my traverse up the mountain range child of gladness, your dawning changes attire like white weather soaked in yellow…
Ada: A Poem By Joshua Jason
Joshua Jason is a budding poet and writer, and an undergraduate at the University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria. Adà The oceans speak more honestly to those willing to drown, I talked to the stars about you most of them held my wishes for…
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…
Two Love Poems by Olabode Olanrewaju
When it comes to writing love poems, it takes a certain ingredient which when absent makes the poem a gathering of cliched lines. We found this ingredient in Olabode Olanrewaju’s “Lovers’ Web” and “Thunderbolt.” Each poem struck a chord and made a statement that is…
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…
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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