CRADLE AND GRAVE
By Oladeji Popoola Her mouth opened wide Frightened by the haze of dust That was swallowing up the restless Children chasing away a whirlwind on the playfield that sprawled beyond …
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The Mothers
By Brownie Vocal It’s in nature’s nature to give life. Everything with breath, Earth made alive. The birds, the bugs and where they live – the trees; She made them …
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By John ‘Dare Okafor My words are not your words They stink of perpetual repetitions Clad in the embroidery of insecurity. ‘’Love your fate’’ Preacher man said. My fate is …
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By Oladeji Popoola The world is on her knees pleading with the virus for ‘life again’ The world is in her sickbed, longing, dreaming and hallucinating. Isn’t it some days …
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Corona Virus (in my Letters to the World)
you whose huts are firewood of burning gas time to woo the ocean is around your neck if your slippers itch your feet like thorns, man- age the groan till …
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