thanks y’all. i appreciate your readership, as well as your taking out time to post comments.

Your poem hasn’t got flaws, I must say. Really nice. I have a poem too with the same title as this, and when yours was tweeted by Admin on twitter and i saw the title, I felt “Wow”. Well, mine is on a different […]

When I read a poem, I focus on 2 things: the subject matter, and then the style. I look out for a blend of concreteness bw them both, not bcos am searcing out for the errors in it (of course there’s no perfect […]

Thanks all- for reading and leaving your comments. I appreciate.

Theme, dialogue, relevance of the subject matter to contemporary society…its all intact. There isn’t so much of narration. The story tells itself through catchy descriptions and short commentaries in the ways […]

Hmmmmm. Nice work. I read through it over and over, drawing out themes, and its relevance to the society. Reminds me of Adichie’s words in Half of a Yellow Sun: ‘How much do we really know about the feelings of […]

This…this is a nicely written poem. Essence unveiled, imageries trapped, diction given a smooth flow- it is easy to notice the spontenous flow of emotions as you wrote these lines. I have nothing against this […]

I love the fact that you have time for poetry aside your schedule as a lawyer. Your poetry is nice, but I do not really appreciate your approach to to the subject. I would prefer if you made it personal. That way […]

@chemokopi thanks man. You read Peters too? That poem was my favourite, and back then even though I did not fully understand the subject matter, the first stanza stuck to my heart. I had to rep it. Thanks to the […]

@chemokopi: pls were you referring to lines 5-7? Oh, that was intentional. I wanted to have both simile and alliteration in the same line. I’m sorry I didn’t understand you early enough. I guess being naughty is an addiction.

@jollyone, @chimzorom, @chemokopi: thanks for your commendations. It’s how I know I haven’t failed in my art. @chemokopi mentioned “truncate rhythm with a skewed meter”. Hmmmm. I had to first try to understand the […]

@obi-young. I read your comment over and over, showed it to some poet-friends and I saw that look in their eyes that showed that they were feeling just what I felt, the way I felt it, and yet there were no words […]

@obi-young. I read your comment over and over, showed it to some poet-friends and I saw that look in their eyes that showed that they were feeling just what I felt, the way I felt it, and yet there were no words […]

I smell your feminist theme. I love your approach to the subject, just as much as your simplicity of diction. It’s a good poem, I must admit. However, I’m yet to belive in the existence of a perfect poem. I do not […]

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At age 7 I went to live at my father’s in Lagos. I coped with living with him. Much because I didn’t grow up in his love I couldn’t call him daddy. Often, I watched him beat up my mum and I saw dawn fly […]

Is this supposed to be a review, or are you trying to praise a work you didn’t really write about? @ikhide should please find out how to review a book and not the writer.

I would have loved it if these thoughts were written in poetry. I think the taste sags, because the emotions are heavy but the words used to convey them are light.

I really love the poem. I love the flow of thought and expression. The words work well together like thread on a uniform, to convey the deep emotions from within.

Thanks Elly…

WAO. I really appreciate that you love those lines. Art is the one real way to live forever…

Lost inspiration? I want to believe it was only asleep, but not lost. Thanks to y’all.

I love it when a poem is prosaic and yet retaining the flow of poetry in its every line. That is what you did with these line- your message is well passed, and your theme is well developed like an essay: it has an […]