When i was just a skinny little lad my mother always told me there’d be moments like this. Dimple-making moments, she’d call ‘em; sunlight bouncing off corneas, white with innocence and latent dreams, visually Read More

An Ode, a Sonnet, a Ballard, a Triolet Poems from my heart Truly sent My hand writes What my heart speaks My heart speaks What my mind feels Words capture my mind’s imagery Poems give Read More

I met another one today Ears perk up in anticipation He’s short and stout and speaks funny He’s a man   He’s a reporter Doesn’t earn much He’s a man   He’s just a polytechnic Read More

Ensconced in the embrace of bonding mouth speak What emotional brew Is thus stirred? Scalding crimson anger? Righteous Jealousy? Perhaps the sickly palor  Of gray indifference? Or most likely that green-garbed streak of mangered canine Read More

I lick, tease, linger and squeeze Between the mounds, wide valley and your lovely twin peaks My reward is a moan, a groan and a come-hither sigh Yet I get no further than a man Read More

“I had to meet you here today There’s just so many things to say Please don’t stop me ’til I’m through This is something I hate to do We’ve been meeting here so long I Read More

When we lose someone in our lives we feel pain and sorrow. This loss can either come in form of death, quarrels or disagreements. The cause really doesn’t matter; the hurt is still the same. Read More

Friendship is like rare wine That’s pressed from a choice vine Being carefully crushed and punched Settled, fined, locked and stored It suffers from neither blight nor fault As it stands barrelled in a darkened Read More

Is it the glint in a mother’s eyes when she playfully winks As the suckling on her breasts of nourishment quietly drinks? Or her anxious supplications to God At moments she fears for the worst Read More

  OMG!!! The test was positive. It was like a dream and she took a second look at the pregnancy test and it was a plus sign instead of the minus sign she had hoped Read More

Now I’m looking in the mirror. I’ve been standing here for about ten minutes; staring into the glass. I do not recognize the image in it. I’m serious. The face; my face, it looks familiar Read More

False Image of Ourselves Achebe is stung by the hypocrisy and vain-glory common with Nigerian leaders. He is angry at the blatant self-deception by those who do not care to make Nigeria genuinely great, but Read More

This revolution must be publicized, because clean is the innocence on those babies’ eyes, and the infant things fight to rise like the morning sun, to find where life settles cool. This revolution must be Read More

  By Ochuko Tonukari Not too long ago, an exciting debate came up in our local church. It was such that we heatedly discussed ways in which parents need to re-examine placing gender stereotypes on Read More

Night bears the burden of our departure it wears and tears under the yoke of cold breaking its own silence with endless sighs of longing and neglect   confusion calcifies in our bones leaving stories Read More

  Oh yes, kill me What else can you do? No, what will be left, I ask When you seize that Which you know gives me life And hold it …. Even the carpenter’s vice Read More

Betina and Peter in their marriage have witnessed many trials. This is their dialogue in the aftermath of an occurrence which threatened to destroy everything they both held dear… Betina knows a place and a Read More

The whole class heaved a sigh of relief when Dr Abajingin decided to call it a day. We’d been in class for four straight hours supposedly listening to EEG 401 lectures. The course, Electromechanical Wave Read More

Death is neither friend nor foe Tis’ an ally deserving a rally by those sullied with the pains of reality Death! Life it doth not take away, terminal illness gladly held at bay O the Read More

The Nigerian youth is a creature of woes Left all the time on his own To contend with all manners of foes And live a life of little fun   Day and Night he struggles Read More