Early last month, my pastor saw a vision for me and said I should pray and fast. He said he saw the angel of death hovering around my work place like a hungry hulk for Read More
Apr 242013
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Apr 152013
Why do you want to marry me? Is it for the public cheers For ever moving age inducing fears Hope it’s not for those calls without For the calls within will soon die Like recalcitrant Read More
Jan 042013
You returned to Enugu on the 23rd of October 2009 after your father’s burial. You didn’t want to talk to anybody in your neighbourhood yet because you were tired. Your eyes were still heavy Read More
Nov 232012
MY BUTTERFLY Gently hovering around it Carefully negotiating the best entry point The colours are irresistible You approached Thrust your proboscis into its juicy pool Like a dragnet it kept holding you fast Your wings Read More
Nov 212012
The road to Nsukka was alive with hills and mountains of different sizes. Melvin could see some smokes coming out from the hills up in the sky. They made him think about the volcano his Read More
Oct 032012
It was the cool evening when the breeze was still and the trees did not shed much leaves to litter the compound. Bird’s chirped and hopped freely in the compound. The birds flew away Read More
Aug 212012
Nwanne stood in front of their new home at 50 Abam street Aba. She couldn’t see Onu and Otisi again to play with. “They must be big boys now like these ash boys here”, she Read More
Aug 032012
Please don’t ping me yet! My BB had not been working for some time. Glo network had been so so erratic; but mine was a special case. I recharged my phone on Monday. I didn’t Read More
Jun 212012
If facing the skies the fish cannot heaven see. Scientists sky-rocket and yet nothing see The tail looks like moonlight tale How could I see you without that long sleep? Ending a man in Read More
Feb 092012
Christmas was the celebration I had grown up to dislike. I always wished December never came. It was the time other kids in my street dressed in their December new wears and romped pea-cockishly up Read More
Dec 202011
Jumoke introduced us to the first vendor – Mr Omoleghinwa who was to take us on accounting. Mr Omoleghinwa was accompanied by a pot bellied man; the one he later introduced as Mr Femi. It was Read More
Dec 172011
24th November 2008 was a Monday. I woke up at exactly 5am. I punched the noisy alarm clock that stirred me and hissed a long “mtcheeeww” as I remembered Read More
Dec 092011
Nwautam was the spirit masquerade that they said came from the world inside the waters. Every 26th of December was for Ekpo Nwautam at Eche road field in Aba. I had heard so much about Nwautam Read More
Dec 082011
No Victor No Vanquish (1) No victor no vanquish” he says After battering me for three years Like the clay prepared for mud house As if in search of a greedy mouse My house Read More
Nov 302011
Life is just but a bore No wonder babies cry I think they want to go Back to where they came Better if they had gone Before we cut the cord Linking miserable world Read More
Oct 062011
I’ve never killed before” he said and looked up and around the darkness filled room as if he suspected somebody eavesdropping from the window side. “Paul’s case was such an unfortunate one”; he continued “I Read More
Jul 272011
The motor park was a harvest of crowd – people pacing up and down, some of them had no destination; travelers dragging their bags and boxes along with them as they jostled for vehicles; touts Read More
Jun 292011
Nwanne sat on the floor with her legs curled in front of her like a Fulani beggar. At intervals, she looked up at her father Etee Kalu as he ate his dinner of akpu and Read More
Feb 222011
I have been here waiting
A granny in my endless cradle watch
Waiting for the lather to descend
From the mother tortoise in the fables
So that I can climb to the heavens
Reminiscence of the yester years
Feb 212011
T’day the hunter left his house with his dogs To hunt for games in the forest logs Before the hunter pulls the long gun The dog caught the game without a gun The game is Read More