Your grace is yoke of my mind You, Whose decree I’m slave I am blind I see your shadow whisk away Resting in the arms of that deciduous tree, I kept the life of [...]
May 012012
samuel osaze
Apr 252012
That Eve when The rain of my sweat Bed-wetted the straps That strung me to the cosy back Of a distraught mother I remember the hurdle crossing your door When she was indifferent over [...]
Apr 062012
Help me tell the young goose to go take a cue from her older neighbour Her pride once had no bound; pure blonde and bold Now respectfully stained with patches of life Of a well [...]
Dec 022011
Let the ditties from our voices, the bass Igede has to give wipe off the sweat, sow a wilful smile on every lip; on every waist that bends like hoe. The voice of Igede [...]
Nov 262011
When will you live your life ? When will you be the man whose birth sent hungry hearts, waving the flag of freedom as if what was lost was found? A feverish joy caused a [...]
Oct 112011
…the beads on her waist as if dumb, dare not pine of the turbulence! The dancing rigors; numinous ambience of …an ancestral rebirth. Voices; chants of spiritual codes rife in this air drunk and dangerous [...]
Aug 192011
You! stoic slaver in whose rack the youths of Naija do labour in vain. You: Beast! That sips from lambs blood and feigns deaf ears to the punches of hunger drumming on the walls of [...]
Aug 072011
The Gong in her mezzo-soprano, modulated, sang on and cried in the endless flogging. The Bongo’s neck loosened in the unbroken slaps. Many hated their farms for a brother’s affair. The spectators? The Arena? [...]
Aug 022011
To the one who sits upon my head warmly and afflicts my soul with early baldness… tell him: that the streets have known my smell that as at yesterday, the dog even could recite my [...]
Jul 232011
Over caged, now citizen of rage ragged like an ancestral spirit in a finger-biting demo He stood; angry skeleton of a young man For this is the face of a Naija youth Transmogrified by [...]
Jul 202011
The black Boa whose green banner is crestfallen Is so heavy, with peevish foetuses causing her a swirl made her whimper over a once greeted grace gauchely sloughed off. And now; she slouches in the [...]