Sep 182011
stephen
Sep 112011
Favourite Character: Segi Book title: The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives Author: Lola Shoneyin There is no doubt; ‘the secret lives of Papa Segi’s wives’ is one of the most talked about novels in [...]
Aug 282011
Before her third birthday Ronke began to write. She started talking a few months before then and it was only extra amazing that she could wield the pencil at that early age. All she could [...]
Apr 062011
Thrown round them Like a spiritual eclipse Like eyes deeply famished By an un-ubiquitous heart An ushering hug
Apr 012011
NEPA 2 Me and him My nephew Barely four Was watching tv…
Mar 252011
(For the men who dug trenches for communication lines all across my town) This pounding sound fills my head, Like the cracks on some dry white feet On the hard ground On the auto-numb [...]
Mar 212011
What in the world Would I do with a petal At this time of all thoughts At this time Where am told a hand is in my hand And it feels like am wearing [...]
Mar 202011
NEPA The moon is so dim today The stars have taken a holiday My mind is willing to speak… I’d have so much desired To write here and now A poem of you
Mar 202011
With futile spectacles And starched white coats In the midst of funny looking glass ware They stand immobile
Mar 162011
THE SPIDER AND THE WALLS I once watched a spider work Between two walls Swinging back and forth Up and down Pulling here Pushing there
Mar 162011
(For those who lost their loved ones during the biafran war ) Where am I Where have I gone I ask the vacuum That vims ‘round me And the three sets of footprints Stuck [...]
Mar 152011
The morning opens Like a carelessly closed boudoir Of a dainty princess Of voluptuous pulchritude
Mar 142011
My love am yet to meet I stir, what shall I see first? Her hand, her face, her breast or feet? What shall feeble the thirst?
Mar 132011
The time of the day
Like an interrogation session
Of a prisoner of war and self
Like the lives of the cat…
Keeps on coming
It’s hard to understand
What they nowadays sing
Not what is
God knows, not what is!
Mar 122011
SMOKES AND SMILES
The period is shown again
Flaunted and brandished
But has always been here
All along
Like our redundant hunger
Brief and intermittent