This frivolous feeling That keeps My veins thrumming My chest throbbing My blood gushing My limbs trembling My face flushing My eyes twitching My voice failing This inordinate feeling Gruelling That despite how rarely you [...]

As if serene silence filled the place I traced… I saw… I felt… I wondered… What practiced quietness!! Tensed with cold Sweeping my mind Or does it linger still? Such peace or peace? I ask [...]

He held her close to his broad chest He was set to leave, She wore her best ‘honey Please can i finish my make-up When you return, you can hold me nonstop’ He stood behind [...]

I am the lizard I climbed the mighty Iroko; I leaped from its heights to the earth below But no lips sought to sing my praise. So I shall beat the drums And write for [...]

I gathered water in my palms, and cupped the sun in my fist; I claimed the wind as my own but who can drain the ocean? I chased a star as it fell even the [...]

Don’t tell me it will get better Don’t tell me I will forget her Like a ripple slowly erased from the water The curve of her neck is etched in my memory The way she [...]

…ha ha ha, you’re all doomed for one end… ha ha ha h,a paaaain! What an irony, Terror’s evil laughter, sounded above the tears and cries of a dozen girls he left in the room. [...]

I was in class. I wasn’t in class. I was physically in class but my mind was far away from it. Or at least, far away from whatever it was that the lecturer was droning [...]

3.55 am Central Mosque, Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria. The man in the prayer robe and turban makes no noise as I enter the room. He doesn’t even turn. I hate to think that I’m expected. [...]

  (translated from the original pidgin English version) If that rascal had not palmed me the shandy, I would have removed the side-mirror of his bus. I examined the green note before lodging it with [...]

“Mr Whyte, Mr Whyte….” I stared blankly at the doctor…and dimly heard him calling my name. I could see his mouth moving, and he was  saying something to me. Nothing was getting through my foggy [...]

If you don’t want to wake up on the wrong side of the bed, make sure you had slept on the right side of it the night before – the very right side. Harold Benson [...]