Tag: poetry
Three Poems | Taiwo Odesanya
In This Green Land In this green land, we do not breathe Oxygen, We breathe fear for we do not know, Where and when the next bomb or shot will fall, In this green land, we do not speak the language of love, It’s ethnic hatred that oozes from our mouths, We hide like Chameleons, […]
Four Poems | Michael Brockley
Aloha Shirt Man sings Rosalita, jump over the lion while he walks his German shepherd toward Halloween. He’s trapped in a mondegreen prison where he a capellas ain’t no woman like the one-eyed Gott and all the lonely Starbucks lovers. In this detour through cities built on sausage rolls, he is born again in a […]
Three Poems|Ahmad Al-Khatat
The Song of Life A song you’d be thrilled to hear, with eyes sharing their sorrows to the nightingale a grief’s mouthpiece takes me to innumerable nostalgia We hear the lyrics of the song, as clothes become wet from sobbing to the morning daylight, not moonless nights… Wings In the Wind Periodically, I see […]
Review of THE THINGS FATHER DID NOT TEACH US by Abimbola Alaka
Reviewer: Emmanuel Ojex The Things Father Did Not Teach Us by Abimbola Alaka is a collection of poems that deals with life — in its barest forms. The book touches on a lot of sentimental topics without being bathetic in the delivery of any poem in the work. Topics such as rape, domestic violence, […]
Two Poems | Tolu’ A. Akinyemi
No Room for Racism Would you take the knee with me? Would you speak out in my defence, Screaming that there is no room for racism? Would you take the knee with me As a symbolism of equality? Would you speak out in my defence, That Black Lives Matter? Would you take […]
Post-Partum | Oloyede Michael Taiwo
pro caffeinating in the throes of this whitlow in my head, rheumy, blustering, sharp; suffused in a maelstrom of emotions this pain is oval, a tear in the gum large at the base turbulent, with a curved face, and vertices symmetrical to an Alzheimer’s wreckage a swoon in the long in the tooth soot of […]
Two Poems | Linda Crate
brought every fire i saw the fissures of your soul, and i blamed myself; but you are responsible for yourself— saw you walking in hell in one of my dreams, and i cried; but now i see why you were walking in the darkness alone it is what you have earned for […]
Two Poems | Lynn White
Do You Remember Do you remember when the future stretched endlessly ahead, when the older looked forward to a contented retirement and the younger to all the joys of life and living. Now the mists are down swamping everyone in a gloomy miasma and the future is closing in moving closer and closer, a […]
Four Poems| John Grey
THE GUITAR I pick up the guitar for no particular reason. It’s an old friend that I’ve neglected these past few years. I start with a simple e-chord, strum with the back of my fingers. I listen to the blend of strings, then pluck them one by one with my stunted nails. I prefer the […]
Four Poems| A. K. Genova
I No Longer Wear Coats Someone yanked my coat from my chair. The chair rolled out from under my bottom. I bottomed. My coccyx crunched. I’ve never conceded to so much as a serape since. Once coats calmed me like bluebirds or Tony Bennet, the coat of his tongue. A bounty of belts laced my […]