Close your eyes to the lines Spun here on this page So you can see through The heart dancing here. One badly battered by fate, But retains its verdure. Pierced, shot and drowned In the Read More
Nov 242013
Poetry
Nov 212013
I took a detour while I was walking down memory lane Ended up at a station, looked around and saw a train That took me to a place in the city of the blind Never Read More
Nov 172013
I like you because you smile With those sad lines On your shiny black face. You allow strangers To drink milk from your cup, Not that your own children are filled. I like those firm Read More
Nov 152013
There comes a time in November when it’s only less Than a hundred thousand seconds to Christmas. What brings Christmas to our doorstep every year? What drops Christmas like a gift box laced with Read More
Nov 142013
Earth Rising The morning star spreads it light Over the earth, as it rises. Casting a shadow on its offspring. Arise oh earth! your time has come. At the height of noon, it sparks. Consuming Read More
Nov 092013
Rain pours out of the eyes from the soul To wet the dust As seeds watch us grow and follow us Is it the sun’s warmth That melts a cold heart As its light gives Read More
Nov 082013
Every barrel of crude Lifted from our oily Soils and waters Is in itself a tight mixture Compounds and blood. Blood of heroes Sung and unsung. Heroes whose fires Where blown out Before their prime. Read More
Nov 052013
This is an open book, Internet enabled, Hindsight empowered resit exam. My parents are getting a second chance at Parenthood Perfection, Through my virgin hands. I have been the guinea pig, The critic, activist and Read More
Oct 292013
GROANING FOR RELEASE I believe in God The only supreme being Sole founder and creator of the world But as for man He is in my worries the least And in my eyes only a Read More
Oct 272013
The wino had a crooked stagger, he was high off life Trying to drown all his sorrow and strife In bottles of booze, gin and juice, no-one to control him, never had a wife Now Read More
Oct 242013
Let the music take us to a place where we can mend our broken souls Allowing our imaginations to take us on a quiet stroll To an abode that no-one else can find Built on Read More
Oct 212013
Joel is the kinda guy you’ll find kicking it on the roof top Waiting for the sun to drop so that the moon can pick up from where it left off And he’s famished, the Read More
Oct 202013
That night to the Pastor’s house they went and knocked and out loud they wept “We have been banished and rejected Oh! How we feel so rejected We really need someone to house us everywhere Read More
Oct 192013
I was halfway on the road to nowhere Sliding down, tumbling over curbs It felt so good; it felt so bad I felt the rush; I felt the shame Something changed, I got saved Somewhere Read More
Oct 182013
The sun would shine just to dot her eyes with its light With a smile that resplendent, there’s little wonder why GOD gave us sight I was drawn by her appearance, so artistic in its Read More
Oct 162013
DIZZY DAZZLE (written sleepily) Fiercely, ferociously, you’re pulling me Vehemently, voraciously, you’re hauling me Softly, subtly, I’m falling in Into this abyss, Losing to a kiss You say “Come to me You’ll find Home in Read More
Oct 162013
Africa pays tribute to a man Whose works gave African Literature a say. Death visits every man But there are men, time can’t take away. He lived a life of great glory Leaving a legacy Read More
Oct 142013
I want to write a poem; Caught by calm…pen in my palm. Oh, what will I call this poem? My clock is ticking, my thought is clicking While I ponder, ink flows in the realm. Read More
Oct 142013
Look but don’t touch He tells me But my cravings and curiosities drive me Just this once and no one would know Never knowing it’s a deep dark hole A single bite and no one Read More
Oct 132013
Twas on this date I came forth Patiently in mum’s womb I laid Am so sure I didn’t kick her much She could plainly testify to such With much prowess I grew up with wisdom Read More