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Reginald moved over, ignoring the painful chorus his body was singing and grabbed Femi’s...
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Stage four.
Fear.
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4ran6 on March 20th, 2011
Funmi-F on March 18th, 2011
I’m falling
Deeper and deeper
Faster than ever before
I know where this is going
Yet I fight
Continue reading Maybe…
4ran6 on March 15th, 2011
Trust has caused many hurt, Distrust, much more pain. Love breaks, yet mends, Hate breaks, crushes and ravages beyond reason. Courage might leave scars, Cowardice, an incurable wound. [...]
Read More Enigmatic Variations
Adewale S. on March 13th, 2011
The fear ‘n your face, that I may never get your riddle, yet exposed the urge in your heart. No healthier spring could nurture love’s floret. ‘Love, son’ you said, ‘is the ability of someone to take someone else’s bullet’. [...]
Read More To Dad. Wherever he is.
Ld Otakpor on March 12th, 2011
WHEN WE ARE BUTTERFLIES….The soft pattering of an evening autumn shower A soothing prelude to my lover’s entrance whilst waiting, I deign a dip in the memories of still lingering touches And drown when you leave me [...]
Read More Short poems in A-minor
enoquin on March 12th, 2011
I woke to the sound of mother’s wail. which relative had died again?’ I wondered. Mother’s wail always had to do with relatives which we could hardly recall or ones we didn’t know. She’d start by saying, when one [...]
Read More My Brother and I
ouduehi on February 26th, 2011
On the day that I saw the world. For the first time, frightening, I so feeble, So wide and big and filled with people. I, weeping for the loss of the cocoon that shielded, They, rejoicing for the gain of a one so awaited. [...]
Read More The day I saw the world.
bard on February 26th, 2011
Minutes tickled, I watched with joy Our conversation, the first I could not understand Not the first, but a first. Where is my thought? My crush! My fault? Not sure, [...]
Read More I’m simple, I crush
Shope on February 26th, 2011
The colour of the day was red. Red is also the colour for tragedies-and of blood spilt all over the bathroom floor. How fitting. St. Valentines day-loves day and tragedy, and folly all rolled in one.
The day [...]
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ouduehi on February 25th, 2011
The blazing mid-day sun had morphed into the orange orb that heralded the evening and still the figure under the dwarf palm tree sat. Neither the billows of dust that swirled in the air, tossed up by the strong [...]
Read More The Watcher
Mariaah Ali on February 24th, 2011
We met on a dry, dusty and windy January afternoon; the gleam of sunshine piercing through the windowpane could shatter glass impenitently.
The first time I laid my eyes on you everything stood still for a moment and the [...]
Read More Innocent Emotions
Clinton Ifeanyi McDubus on February 22nd, 2011
After the last anonymous phone call, Tosin does not have any idea what to expect. He is absolutely certain that it has to be something unpleasant that the anonymous caller is leading him to and even though he pretends [...]
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ouduehi on February 21st, 2011
‘I know what I’m doing. Really!’, Kally insisted to me as I turned away from her to pick up my mobile that had just started to ring. This discussion was beginning to bore me. How many times have I [...]
Read More Famous Last Words
Diva Divine on February 19th, 2011
As I lay in bed thinking about him, wondering and wishing, it suddenly hit me. That day is upon me once again. In my twenty something even years (odd seems like such a negative term to use and yes….I [...]
Read More Love as I know it..
neo-lite on February 17th, 2011
I and my friend Johnny High sat and got elevated into the stratosphere of the essence of life and there we meditated. when we came back to earth, i decided to write down his musings as narrated to me [...]
Read More the beauty in ugly
enoquin on February 15th, 2011
This is a poem by someone that hates rejection and yet hopes to find love [...]
Read More Will you take me like that?
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