Α̲̅πϑ they sat down Under the canopy To mourn or celebrate? Our loss their gain With peering eyes Jagged hearts and sagging breast Dirty wrappers, the villagers But I look on with dismay The Read More
May 172013
Poem
May 082013
She came in a duffel coat To the mill of words Bearing a beautiful heart On a beautiful day, nay a Beauty to behold. The soul, a plethora of Riches like that ancient Queen of Read More
May 032013
I usually approach Layrite’s poems with some caution. I know if I read them in a hurry I will come back to the first line understanding little. In order words, the poet tries to ensconce Read More
Apr 292013
Through the sun flakes The moonlight shining Even under the rainfall We were always happy It was like a gift A melody playing Tranquil and peaceful We were two sweethearts Until that day came Read More
Apr 132013
Not every rain is a blessing The floods, the erosion… hurricanes bring more pain Even to those eyes that were raped of their possessions The rain is bias in its selection. Keep your house Read More
Apr 102013
Come dance with me Omoge Sewa to rewa Allow me drown in the Power of your amulet Come close to my right Don’t hide your brilliance from my eyes Come close to my left Read More
Mar 062013
Beneath those worn tombs standing on the parched earth Just beyond the green mangrove fenders Scavenged by wild foxes from fallen boulders Lie the bones of men who fought for truth This profaned plot, this Read More
Mar 012013
TIME IN A BOTTLE – ILERIOLUWA (SENGA) I did time once Yeah, I did time in a bottle Locked up in the green ones And the keys thrown down the bottom Flaming stream coursing through Read More
Feb 122013
With tears i fall At snail’s pace i plummet into another space Hoping you will catch me I fall like every time Breaking myself into every parts I hold out hands to clutch yours To Read More
Jan 192013
Each day takes a breathing shift: With Man’s Holy Communion To welcome the next And sweetly smiles with each serious sweat Soaked with frail fears and tinkle tears To fix existence, the yin must mix Read More
Jan 022013
I blame the fathers for the situation of the present Though some may claim that they were absent But the situation of things Gives little or no room for any to be left out of Read More
Jan 012013
Woke up with a smile. Life did not smile back. Vita, why don’t you pick on someone your size? You who takes men halfway and turns back. Leaving them to shuffle along till Mors might Read More
Dec 242012
If these words, those words Cannot quicken the beats of your heart, Cannot cause a surge of your emotive heat I’ll stop using them, yes, I’ll say them no more But these words, those Read More
Dec 232012
I am a genius Better than Venus. I may not know mathematics, But I know something that can benefit the masses. Life is like a fight Though things and times may be tight, I live Read More
Dec 122012
I long for sunny days Where the hibiscus and the dongoyaro And the elephant grass, is hued, a golden yellow. Where the little boys with starry eyes And runny noses and broken lips With Read More
Dec 112012
What a huge distress upon a stress What a good heart housing upon a satanic arena A country worth a giant Now nothing but a beetle A beetle is a mighty discription But Read More
Nov 192012
Palm oil on my shirt Okin biscuit in my pocket On my way to school Not a care in the world I had forty Naira in my hands A stroll on Zambia road Barnawa shone Read More
Nov 112012
I am a man And not a no man. I am a sum of divinity and humanity I believe in the uniqueness and reality of my personality. I have come to understand that in this Read More
Nov 052012
15-06-2008 Blank page Inspired by a blank page Tempted… To rage, Or to write like a sage? All in all, Pinned to the wall One must cover the blank page. Tasking, Read More
Oct 312012
That hole inside, Dug by the shovels of the mind… That dark brightness Where the eyes cannot see… That emptiness, yet filled With fears and wilted hopes… That strangling shadow That stays even in the Read More