featured poem: Manifesto by zamantungwa

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] everything you have ever imagined already is. just pluck it out of the ether curl it up in your fist charge it up with good intent and throw it out to the world. with every fleeting thought...

Sophia the Greek Goddess by Uduak Robert

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] I am sought after by many Yet never to be seen by any I’m as lifeless as the black sea Yet i outlive history and posterity I am Sophia the Greek goddess My virtues are innumerable My...

Shampoo by Ayodeji Morakinyo

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] Running off her hair Down her brown neck In swirls and whirls As troubled soapy water That would not stay put Thick in the plastic Imprisoned viscous fluid Lackluster solidifying water Of ingredients manufactured In the parlours...

There Will Be Blood by Esosa Omo-Usoh

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] A Nubian babel Herded to submission A defining heritage Traded for duplicitous salvation A rebirth inspired In the throes of passion Between the overlord And his floral mistress A servant’s robe discarded For a servile ideology Servitude...

Failure by Azola Dayile

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] Failure, a thought more than success We find more scarier. Supposed to do more harm than Good to its bearer. Failure, something we all don’t Want to be its carrier. Failure, chooses not between Superior nor inferior,...