Half formed thoughts Still birthed, they haunt My mind their play ground In greyed corners they abound Remnants of a creation lost Death should be their conception thus Yet they partake of actions formed And [...]
Jan 252012
Eldee
Dec 192011
“What’s up? What are you doing here?” “What are you yourself doing here?” “Typical Nigerian, answering one question with another.” “Abeg free me jor“. “Talk naa, what are you really up to?” “Ok. Mmmm…I am [...]
Dec 192011
THE TRAVELLER Tired, she unclenched her fists. The crushed petals, still shocked, clinging lazily to her, to each other are caught in the wind, and swept into the arms of the lie once held, dancing [...]
Dec 142011
riding the winds of Ani’s birth from lunar wombs to pregnant stars birthing UV rays that darken skins that skinned Igba i am… dum dum dum dum dum dum the sound of Igba sailing ether [...]
Dec 122011
In the pockets of our purple class three school shorts amid crumpled one naira notes, Okin biscuit wrappers and “fast-guy nor be thief”s he forsook our youth Travelling many Benins to Jeminis*, okin biscuits to [...]
Oct 232011
Silence, shadows and fear Guilt, remorse and tears Silently wish to be free Free from pain Free from anger From it all Yet still I long for you How can I When my heart yearns [...]
Oct 222011
Jun 262011
what a fate mocked the King of Beasts ………a god born bound a godslavegod a slavegodslave ……….what a fate smiled his laughter Damned clock! I roll over and knock it off the stand. It [...]
Jun 192011
Shards of black hope float in streams of Sango’s tears From the reflections; The lines on her face mapped the fate of the world, The scars on her back mocked the age of noah’s ark, [...]
Jun 182011
For a while now, my keyboard and I have been at war. Everytime I try to feed him with the crumbs of bread falling to his pads or whenever a bit of ash at the [...]
Jun 142011
I went scavenging one morning with dad and found God beneath the bow of an old broken Armistad, rusty nailed to some wooden structure, seemingly unperturbed by His diminished stature. Politely, I lied, asking if [...]
Jun 102011
A black widow eating off Camus’s hands. She whirls her brush, painting “misfit” and I pretend it is art. I am a liar for claiming wisdom. Our world defecates now and then while she lays [...]
May 242011
…..distance seems your comfort In the deep, ’tis heard, you hold fort Emptiness, your weapon against thought The ensuing victory will taste like butt cheeks An anal victory in the world of vaginas Dear friend, [...]
Apr 302011
One night the extra bone found a use in the morning he ribbed her his new muse inspiring him to shooting stars but all she could aim for were glass ceilings in spite, she gave [...]
Apr 272011
In my solitude, amidst unbroken kolanuts and white chalk the empty anthill finds it’s historian, my Chi…. tracing Uli lines in the sands of Abame Amadioha’s fate by oracles in woodfree uncoated patchments that die [...]
Mar 122011
WHEN WE ARE BUTTERFLIES….The soft pattering of an evening autumn shower
A soothing prelude to my lover’s entrance
whilst waiting, I deign a dip in the memories of still lingering touches
And drown when you leave me
Mar 062011
I am a Nigger You are a honky And we are both this poem. Our poetry ate hate and defecated political correctness Like a puritan’s vest sent forth to cleanse monkeys It is St Andrew’s [...]
Feb 132011
‘Tis said we live to die Why waste time feeding dreams? Well sir…I can’t but stir the sauce while my clock ticks Bounty feasts for dead hicks For if a corpse ever a meal dined [...]
Dec 122010
Each time I rise to the morning of my African sun My presence splits the rays into the many colors of life And only reddish-purples escape the prism Continuously reflected by the inviting mangrove Jacuzzis [...]
Dec 052010
Time just dey flow This yeye bus 41A no gree show Starting to feel like I’m all dressed up with nowhere to go This driver don turn me to schedule pawn See as the bus [...]
Nov 242010
Today, the sun fall out like say person dey pursue am,
I come say make I wear garment, full gadging….
Na summer, babies go full street, men go dey achohol, full swording….
As I come dey stroll down Byres road, my guy just fall out from one side
Nov 202010
See as tears dem free range for my runway
Oh’boy nor be small thing ooo, man dey sway
As alarm dey blow bobo like palm tree
Who nor go, no go know, abi
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Nov 182010
Footsteps draw nigh
The towering heights of bipedals shadow the earth
And the King of Beasts smiles
Simulacrums bound by time spheres devoid of power
“slave god slaves”
mocked his laughter
“god slave gods”
Nov 152010
In the night we had risen like phoenixes
From the ashes of St John and Andrew’s ventures
Ebony pain glistening in the moonlight
Vengeance exposed by the glistening shards called our eyes
For come the sun, melanin should rule supreme
Nov 122010
For the play is themed in the insane stupidity of god images
Gandalf the White gave sentience to carbon molecules and cast them out
The objective; “find chocolate flavoured starfishes”,
With the eating of babies in the sweet Mephistophelean sauce of handmade sin,
a Greek gift of free will offered at every turn.
Jul 262010
Honey And Sugar A stranger let me in the other day I stumbled and almost fell Sharply different place I could tell Don’t want to start anew, I felt. Cannot park my heart in here, [...]
Jun 302010
Scriptures of street dreams flood the ether Innocent of how the world schemes, the Child entered The reality, a smoke filled weightlessness Flicking the butt, I watched the Man fall with it in helplessness It [...]
Jun 282010
Jun 252010
Again the dream greys Boogiemen and fiends reign And still yet I arise A flight of waxen wings The dour taste of dust How do I get to nirvana Every step, a dance of pain [...]