YOUR BODY TOO IS A HOME
Each morning, I eat the past with my breakfast and gulp my wishes with them. The more I chase them, the more they grow thorns on the basement of my...
Category: Poetry
Poetry: Paraphrasing an Ally’s Status by Abdulkareem Abdulkareem
for B Our friendship is like a luminous energy from a spectrum of light. I paint you with crayon wax on the sky of my canvas. On some...
Poetry: Another Life by Ayobami Kayode Tijani
In another life, i will collect roses and daffodils from the garden whilst The sun offers me my shadow as a Pregnant woman. The edge of my wrapper will shelter...
Poetry: Cinnamon by Omotoyinbo Damilola
a heart that mirrors the past is never present. this house recedes into a shadow. walls soak up groanings. my father’s portrait, an embroidery of bruised women. i am one...
Poetry: Schadenfreude by Habeebullahi Muhammed Yunusa (Baṣọ̀run)
this poem premieres linguistic prizefighting / at the commonwealth games. referee’s opener: like this contest, life is a labyrinth; you, minotaur; this match, jigsaw/sudoku—the more gordian; present puzzle piece, schadenfreude....
Classic Poetry: I Give You Thanks My God by Bernard Dadie
I give you thanks my God for having created me black For having made of me The total of all sorrows, and set upon my head 5 the World. I...
Classic Poetry: Abiku by J.P Clark
Coming and going these several seasons, Do stay out on the baobab tree, Follow where you please your kindred spirits If indoors is not enough for you. True, it leaks...
Classic Poetry: Abiku by Wole Soyinka
In vain your bangles cast Charmed circles at my feet; I am Abiku, calling for the first And the repeated time. Must I weep for goats and cowries For palm...
