Poetry

Two Poems by Damilola Oyedeji

Woman — you’re in a rhombus of cuffing vines, surrendered to a chokehold, this is the maze-mold that forms you, you’re oblivious of getting away or a way. this is

WEAK WINGS WOULD SOAR, SOMEDAY

Education is like quenching a thirst; parched throats, desert-like bodies roving minds scuttling through time’s lounge puddles on mind-fields, hollow down in drizzles modify into understanding as roots gather and

Six Poems by The Philosopher Poet

Windrush Squared Trains, planes, and automobiles. Transformers and transporters of livestock. First, they were ships but then they took flight. So fast and so far, that we barely felt the

FIVE POEMS by Echendu Chukwudi

CORNFIELDS Life a calligraphic corn field, Trapping the swirls of our chase, Past scarecrows and muddy platforms, We are familiar characters, Navigating the vast field, Developing, and gearing further In

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