by Iliya Kambai Dennis | Aug 19, 2023 | Poems
thighs stained with blackspots from my lips: a virgin begins to enjoy life after a night under her lover’s skin Iliya Kambai Dennis is a writer and poet from Kaduna. He has been published in Salamander Ink Magazine, ARTMOSTERRIFIC, FERAL: A Journal of Poetry and...
by Iliya Kambai Dennis | Aug 19, 2023 | Poems
there are things that’s not supposed to stay but have refused to go… my lover has trapped me in a rabbit’s hole singing creed of deliverance. kyrie eleison… on our bodies that has become a secret vessel concealing sin— a sacramental of unwanted desires...
by Salim Yakubu Akko | Apr 8, 2022 | Poems
tears from a gloomy stream, came & took away my little being as i lay down counting the unhatched days i planned to weave into a book of glistening memories. & a razor blade was given to me to shave my head of sorrowful histories interwoven betwixt...
by Eniola Abdulroqeeb Arówólò | Oct 22, 2021 | Poems
this is what i have gathered to offer everyone who visits me these days—a mural of perpetual grief, a map showing multiple states of sorrow. another palestinian returns home stretched on a berth of grief with a stray bullet crevicing his skull. on the TV, a lady...
by Chibuike Kingsley Agbo | Aug 13, 2021 | Poems
Abandoned castle in an ancient citya body foreign to happinesslife is a tragedy cruel and mercilessugly carcass in a whitewashed sepulchre A hush of laughterfrosty without form and girthif time heals everythingwhere then does it go when death knocks? void is a ripple...
by Chibuike Kingsley Agbo | Aug 13, 2021 | Poems
Trapped in a body far away from homearms stretched like a mother longing for her long lost childrust of iron in the prison of our memoriescradling a song that knew not our names we were no seers of fortunewithout forearming reality emergedcracked open like a solemnity...
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