ARÚGBÓ Ń ṢOGE and other poems Flourish’s ARUGBO N ṢOGE, a collection of satirical and didatic poems, is one of its kind in the African world of Literature, especially in the West-African world – a setting where the need to correct negative prevalent issues is greatly emphasized by different writers. This truth foregrounds the purpose […]
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TRIBUTE TO THE MEDICAL PERSONNEL TO THE KNIGHTS OF THIS DAY The surge of a pandemic; blood gushes, turns torrent. Tales of its deeds kept men on their knees. And like a bolt from the blues, it came upon us. Then arose savants of Asclepius; medic pundits in the white regalia, knights with glittering sheaths
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COVID-19 A poem by AfolaOluwa Emmanuel Sweet bee that stings the whole race, ebullition that ripped off Land’s peace. Bringing the whole world on her knees, one legend that silence world’s pride. Paroxysm pandemic; who steals the earth riches. Agony in world’s happiness, covid weapon of the unknown. Land of battle why thou at peace?
PRAYER FOR NATIONS A poem by Nkechi Joy James Moving from country to country, cutting lives short. Living tears to families, friends and love ones, if there be any still left. God, what is happening? Please, heal us. COVID – 19 is spreading; taking people from Earth to unknown destination, heaven or hell? A disease
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THE PSEUDO SMILE THE PRICE FOR SUCCESS The tears behind my smile, the sorrow behind my grievances, the ugly being behind the amazing soul, the pains I pass through in seclusion, the feigned smile I give in public, the goal is not to look like what we’ve passed through, hence the reason for the superficial
Dear womb-man Dear womb-man, I have read of how you bugled; bugled in pains against the patriarchal societies. I got to know from history how you struggled; struggled for your voice to travel across many communities. Glad to know the struggle was never in vain, and unto many today, it has become a gain. Dear
2019, MY HITS AND MY MISSES by Olabayo J. Awodirepo 2019 was indeed a wonderful year full of challenges, hits and misses. I am not the type who writes New Year resolutions, but at the beginning of 2019, I did pen down a few things I would like to get done before the year would run
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Christmas anthology WHAT I SEE Others see Xmas, I see Christmas because Christ is the only reason for this special season. Others see it as a time to party, I see it as a time to praise. Others see it as a time to place extravagant price on products, I see it as the reason
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Story title : The temptation I almost fell for I met Sandra while I was observing the 21 days on camp during my NYSC year. She was everything I was looking for in a lady. “Oh, the Lord just sent a blessing my way” I had thought in my mind. Her eyes were so tempting
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“Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time. Grace Abbott The eerie and pretentious stillness that consistently deluge our present day society is
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