Creative Poems That Topped The 2023 List This Year!
If you are an avid poetry lover and would like to cap off your already exciting year with some mouth-watering pieces, this is the time, here and now! I have drawn some sites you can visit to check the works of vibrant poets who are busy shaking the world…
Timeless – These Short Poems By Fortune Omosola Will Get You Thinking
Zilch In the first world, money hides in a cell and kills people, In Nigeria, lack invites indigents to a bloodless genocide, Afterwards, eggheads burn their learning evidences and head to slavery, opening their mouth once a month. In tones…
4 books by Fortune Omosola that you must read!
Fortune Omosola stands out not just for his job but for his multifaceted artistic weaves. Beyond the immediacy of news reporting, Omosola’s talent transcends the confines of the studio, resonating through the written word and his…
The disciple – A poem by Dimmachukwu
THE DISCIPLE I love love, I really do, No matter how it shows up, it’s beautiful. Love in a garden, love in a triangle, Love on a tree and even love wey no gree. Love is incorrigible, an incurable virus, Lined on the faces of its disciples and…
Alive in December and other poems by Caesar Olugbeminiyi
ALIVE IN DECEMBER In December, Carnival breathes life into Calabar. Dancers – Fine, stout, lean, In many bright colours, Armed with a smile, a wink — more, As Visitors cave into night’s delight. In Angola, Men relive Peter, on the holy…
You came this far to live in hell
I haven’t come this far to live in Nigeria’s hell, there is a bat whistling in my face, there oodles of stench holding form in poverty, I am unpainted. My luxury items are my thoughts as I bend my back to see the sky. I wonder what being a…
Let dreamers dream – A poem Rolawe Omosola
Let dreamers dream, in dark sentinel circles, holding the circles for flames. As it worships heaven, the blades sharpen in the heat of its furnace, begging for salvation Charcoals of pain enticing pleasure. If these dreams fade away, a man would have…
SWEET POISON – By Fortune Omosola
Knowledge is a nuclear weapon, noxious. To know is to saturate in insatiety, ever consuming, never giving back. There are consequences for seeing this world differently; do not question it. Every aha moment comes with its own perilousness. The ignorant…
Formless ( A poem by Fortune Omosola )
Formless Sewing without the knot is a mystery, it is like riding a headless mule on a narrow road, The pot needs the lid to steam, But this, This is fire without heat. The soldier is lifeless, he breathes, his life, unpredictable, fear is beneath him, he…
Sons of thunder – A poem by Fortune Omosola
Sons of thunder The sons of thunder hide between the master’s thighs; With battle sticks, scooping horror stories. They dare not to wink as darkness evaporates in flooding motion, from the wind panels on open roofs. The gazelles in flushing…