Category: Poetry
Two Poems|Oloyede Michael Taiwo
Election This candidate is parvenus stamped his face on a loaf of bread for a street to feast on fear and calumny clad his face and his cologne drips of impropriety; Incessantly dodging questions and queries slung at him by the masses His words were coquettish Only the street that had his coveted edifices […]
Four Poems|Psalmuel Benjamin Oluwasheun
WHEN YOU SEE A BOY CRY Boys don’t cry, only leak. the abs & chest are wide enough to hold a torrent after every lynch. When you see a boy cry, grief has just pinched his soul. This is a sour song of dark rhythm– Its lyric is aligned with bitterness, & aches, […]
Four Poems|Grace Alioke
A Plea For Gratitude’s Face how would my lips roll out all the gratitude growing wings in her garden, or how would she sprinkle all the affection as lilies on your mild face, fair one? for you… you, Buttercup, are the breeze that warms my face whenever fear’s fierce breath […]
Makeshift| Michael Verderber|Poetry
Have you ever wanted something / so much you could just kill it? Strip away your conscience / take the fake just to refill it Suffer silence of your empty dreams / throw yourself into the river Isolated sitting “beside yourself” / neither of you are the giver [ Makeshift ] I […]
Four Poems| Maed Rill Monte
Hate is Catching Spiders (and Fleeing Flies) I can think of myself as Kurapika (My world’s not as fancy as anime) with a cross planted in the heart, (it’s more complicated than that) the cross ready to crush it to a pulp (like spiderwebs holding the dead) the moment I turned my hate away […]
Three Poems|Ivan Peledov
What a Waste A fox would never ask a rabbit where the trees are going at sunset, but clouds kiss empty freight cars and slowly implode. Awkward steps of the priests can’t repeat the pattern of the stars. Darkness curses them all, along with cows, traffic lights, flying saucers, divine flesh and fake music. […]
Four Poems| Sharif Shakhshir
Paradise for Coyotes For Katie I want to go broke with you. I want to face disaster and chase other foolish stars with silly names among the monosaurs and pegasi Let’s cross unwise hemispheres like coyotes disrespectful of borders. When the bad men build their sad conspiracies and chase us into the darkness the […]
Four Poems|Paul Tanner
pesky logic I serve her. then I use the hand sanitizer. she watches me rubbing my hands together. I’m clean, you know! she says. I have to do it after every customer, I tell her. oh, charming! well what about YOU, eh? she points at me from across the counter. […]
Three Poems|Peniel Gifted
COUNTRY BY THE RIVERSIDE Here lies a country- By the riverside of dolor Tapping nutriment from Runnels of Hades. Her cubs sip from bass In gushing songs- lunching Beebread, tanks wailing. Her husband- floater like a Widowman, nesting at Bermuda’s Bank, angel expecting- one day My kindred soul will be back. DARKEN […]
Three Poems|Sofiat Omowumi
LIFE OF A VIRGIN Sometimes, I see my waist Clad in your arm’s shawl. I feel your succulent lips on mine Like a well-cooked cow-hide as we take in each other’s breath. Then, I see myself underneath you, You unlock the door beneath my navel With the key between your thighs and we feed […]