By Imaobong Abraham In a quiet and serene atmosphere, Nerve relaxing and soothing, Lovely books speaking, Drinking from the well of knowledge, Soul refreshing like one gulping down living waters, Soothing balm good for the soul, These are my Dear …
By Dr Bassey Ubong My body clock went AWOL for it failed to tell me to rise. The church bell stopped on the roof of my residence when it sounded at cockcrow. The faithful must have finished the morning …
By Uboho Bassey What do you call a feast of Poetry? Mix a powerful imagination with a rich dose of culture, a tinge of logic, and a flair for words, and the result may just be a spectacular array of …
By Ekong Sampson Owners of the earth Let me breath. The penguin warns that you Spare me the luxury of torture In my own sea of plenty. Owners of the earth Your knees are heavy on My neck. Your fingers …
By Justice Ita Mbaba Gold is made by fire To glow and flare like flame It’s glory, thus, is a bye of glaze That shrugs a further blast. The purest form of wealth Is blurred in heaps of mud That …
By Tijah Bolton-Akpan I think of water as something deep: Dark innards of the ocean’s belly Well that buries the curious bucket Spilled drink Soaking into one’s underpants Self-willed gulp Transporting prescription pills to routine grave Or something wide: Marshy …
By Iboro Otongaran A time had come for dance and pithy songs And also for a moment to clear the forest In a feast for a man whose theatre sparkles With dance and drums, and casts a timeless If enigmatic …
By Ekong Sampson They rejected the Chief Priest After collecting his offerings. They protested: You are not from here You are not one of us You came from Wood. At noon the prince was proudly theirs; They swam in …