Mommy and Daddy are fighting again. They would never say it but I know it is about me. I am seven years old but I can’t sit, can’t talk and can’t walk. All I do Read More
May 212013
Sunshine
May 152013
I was surfing through the NS slush pile when I saw it. I froze. It was mid-morning, i needed to eat, dress up and drive fifty miles to my day job, but at that moment Read More
May 102013
Without your words, Your palms are claws Tracing a path of pain On my tense skin, Without a sound, I am unsure If this is heartfelt, Or mere couplings, Occasioned by excesses Of fluid, In Read More
May 072013
Kakai scowled as he read the summons to the council meeting. As The Overlord of Critville, he saw first hand the plunge in quality of the planet’s exports. He had done his Read More
Apr 282013
King of fruits Your sweet juice Delights Me in ways Hard to explain Its rivulets Trickle down My lips My face My everything Yet The best of you Is savoured through My tongue’s tastebuds A Read More
Apr 252013
Writing is a craft, in the hands of a master it becomes an art. – N. B. Cole Just because you can speak English doesn’t mean you can write. It is as difficult as learning Read More
Apr 222013
This is the first in a series called Enestera Chronicles: The Weeping Coffers. It is a sci-fi story set on Enestera,a fictional literary paradise planet modelled after Naijastories. Some characters in the series might seem Read More
Apr 172013
She kissed me I kissed back We were one at last She swore before the Whole world To love only me Till death. I believed her then, Regret it now That my wife’s Escapades are Read More
Sep 042012
Prostrate he lies Before the ancient shrine Muttering mystical mantras, Beseeching Amadioha, God of his fathers, For justice and vengeance over his enemies With bowed head She’s reciting her rosary Intoning the words With quiet Read More
Aug 292012
So you are a big girl now? You prance about in platforms Step on toes with defiance Toss your hair in arrogance Like a peacock in a lone dance. When will you come home? Mama Read More
Aug 272012
Women Of Africa Arise Arise! women of Africa, Arise! daughters of brown skin Full lips, strong arms And black kinky hair, Lift yourself from the ashes Of oppression pain and poverty, Leave your past shame Read More
Aug 242012
I am happy here The streets are gold And the angels are friendly I get to see you all the time I feel no regrets hurt Confusion anger or pain Mine is a peaceful repose Read More
Aug 212012
Under your watchful glare I feel my coverings pale, Then vanish altogether Beneath your orbits shower, I lay uncovered and bare Nothing is hidden, No cover up allowed You unveil my soul Open me up, Read More
Aug 192012
I was over you, Over your clean strong scent Your warm hugs and pink peppermint, Done with longing for you To call at midday And ask How is my queen today? I had conquered Read More
Aug 162012
Sometimes I long for you like Prisoners long for Freedom, I crave for you like Lizards crave Harmattan, Thirst for you Like nomads do For cool water, Yearn for you Like an weed addict Does Read More
Aug 142012
Enestera, Fairest of planets In the vast endless galaxy Of the World Wide Web, Clement port for the Nigerian writer, Hospitable harbour Of Bibliophiles, Literati, Editors, Critics Award winning playwrights And wannabees. Enestera Read More
Aug 122012
Disenfranchised, Robbed of my entitlements Stripped of my most sacred rights, My just deserts taken away My property pillaged ignominiously, Robbed of a voice Now I am mute, Fleeced of my feet Now Read More
Aug 092012
Ours was not love at first sight It was more of a furious fight, I was not sure if we would last But Feelings, fickle, change fast, Each day saw your loyalty grow And Read More
Jul 252012
ASTERISKED Idomo surveyed the list of humans he was assigned to destroy with a malevolent gleam in his eyes. It was a long list, six thousand, six hundred and sixty-six beings long. He had all Read More
Jul 122012
Sister, How can you be gone? Dead, departed deceased? Or all these depressing things they say you are? Have you forgotten all our plans? And the promises we made to each other? Or was that Read More