Friday 27 February 2015

"Rocking-On With Edaoto And The Afrogenius Band"

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                         brings you: "Rocking-On With Edaoto And The Afrogenius Band"







Rockin-On With Edaoto and the Afrogenius Band is a monthly event of every first Thursdays, it features poetry, music and other genre of the art.

March edition will be featuring:

Obadikah Brass Band

Wale Ojo

Uche Uwadinachi

Time: 6:59pm - 10:00pm

Venue: Freedom Park, Near St Nicholas Hospital, Lagos Island.

Date: 5th of March 2015

Gate: FREE Freedom park entry applies: N200

Don't miss it!

Sunday 22 February 2015

"SHARING LOVE IN DIRE TIMES" DAY 9

 DAY 9

"I will teach your eyes how not to grow weak
when you look at me
I will teach your mind how not to forget every words I love to speak
If dying is drowning in the river of your untainted alms
Where your hold speaks of the safety of Noah's ark
I will die so many time just to protect your
eyeballs from getting dark"



 NOT LOVING YOU IS A PUNISHMENT


I'm done perusing the mystery that shrouds the real me
I don't want to learn me anymore, for my dream is being holy
And being holy is loving you only
Don't question my insanity
Just show me the light
That has been buried at the center of your heart
Open your eyes to this reality
That discovered the real me at the edge of your nose
The lids of your eyes
speak of the worth of gold
your moonshine eyes truly create paradise
That matched my reckless love life

I will teach your eyes how not to grow weak
when you look at me
I will teach your mind how not to forget every words I love to speak
If dying is drowning in the river of your untainted alms
Where your hold speaks of the safety of Noah's ark
I will die so many time just to protect your
eyeballs from getting dark

I left my breath in your nose
So you can be whole
So I can live in the deepest part of your soul
To learn everything that makes up your whole

With you I come alive
Like your shadow will not ceased to sprout to
life
With you I come I alive
Like happiness is condemned to create
laughter or make you smile
With you I come alive
for loving you is the only beauty I derived from life.
























Kemi Bakare "kemistree" is an experienced young performance poet who had assumed the position of a performance director for AJ HOUSE OF POETRY ( A poetry performance organisation based in Lagos Nigeria AJEGUNLE)

She is a member of Y.P.I "YOUTH PASSION INITIATIVE", an organisation that is out to change the mindset of young people towards possibilities and uncommon community development. kemistreee demonstrates vastness of resources and utility as spoken wordpoet, her themes and performances compels attention from all. She emerged as the overall winner of WORDSLAM V organised by GOETHEINSTITUT LAGOS 2011. She reviewed a shortlisted children literature for LNG award 2011 and won the LOUDTHOZ best poet for the month of may in 2013. Kemi has been shortlisted in various poetry competitions including the NIGERIA/ZIMBABWE POETRY EXCHANGE 2012 and her poem "Mute The Songs of Excuses " was published in the Black Communion Poetry Anthology 2013. She has performed in various events such as the Lagos Black Heritage Festival 2014, Word up,Coterie, Picturez Magazine Launch 2013, Wole soyinka and @80 poetry tour 2014 in Nigeria Just to mention a few. kemistreee has been featured by various poets and rappers and was ranked 4th best spokenword artiste, 11th poet that rocked Nigeria in 2014. kemi bakare emerged as the overall winner of the Eko Poetry Slam 2014 organized by the Eko Literary Society and MeroFM 97.7. She is the first guest poet in Nigeria to perform for the 3rd Annual Celebration of the Unseen Awards alongside Lagos state Governor, S.A.N Babatunde Raji Fashola. she is currently working on a collection titled "What I have become". This young poet featured in a video alongside other great poet who calls for peaceful election in Nigeria for 2015 as well as the "Stop the violence."video with the wordup crew.

(C)kemistreee



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"SHARING LOVE IN DIRE TIMES" DAY 9

DAY 9

"If you don't read this text message
Two things you will discover"
READ THIS TEXT!

 TEXT MESSAGE

If you read this message
Two things you will discover
How much I love you
How much I miss you

If you don't read this text message
Two things you will discover
How I can't stop loving you
How I can't stop missing you


















 Oku-ola Paul Abiola (PauDeSimple) is an award winning poet and author of "Oh! What a Calamity and Other Poems' (a collection of poems on HIV/AIDS) and 'WAKE UP POETRY' (A collection of poems on domestic violence)


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Saturday 21 February 2015

"SHARING LOVE IN DIRE TIMES" DAY 8

DAY 8
   
"As fright engulfs us with flames
Sadness holding in hands sword
With the moon dripping blood
To pace angers of lovers taste
The sun yawn widely with vivid shows
Corpses from nearby graves lay out bony hands
Allying with loneliness to ambush thought
Restricting our thought of hugging joy"

"THIS GUY DEY VEX O"


        LOVE IN THE CEMETERY

Embracing nights in cold
Cloaking arms with trial of covering ears
Preventing our whisper like mourning gong
Announcing the final gaze of the king
Here where a wink sounds like earthquake
With our souls pacing around dwellings
Hugging disgrace for loud sound of heart beat
That echoes aloud
With sound echoes that shakes the sky

Homing peace to be calm in our lot
As fright engulfs us with flames
Sadness holding in hands sword
With the moon dripping blood
To pace angers of lovers taste
The sun yawn widely with vivid shows
Corpses from nearby graves lay out bony hands
Allying with loneliness to ambush thought
Restricting our thought of hugging joy

The bitter night turns our enemy
The visit of the young morning
Becomes the dreaded invader of joy
Homeless souls seat on edge of grave
Feeding on our stories told only by gaze
Ghost offering us their torn dresses
To cloth our skin from the angered sun
Banished spirits frown at our story
For its not cooked to grace their pleas

At the peak of graces
When lovers last songs were meant to be sang
Graves start to spin in uniform
Leaving us alone in grave island
Where lovers cannot recognize their own gaze.
The whirlwind uprooting bones
To add spice to our silence
Skeletons move in troop with joy
That their sight would curse our happiness

When traveled to middle of day
Hunger chewing up intestine seems a friend
When ghost were parading
With body and eyes dripping blood
Reasons cloud in cool air
Choice take front in line
Gonging the ashamed heart to pile woods
In hope of two strike of stones
Will lit unending flame
That will in will of grace
Melt the ice and free the blocked lips
To let out songs in glory of acceptance.























Oko Owi Ocho is a poet, playwright and a novelist who believes strongly in the course of African emancipation from modern imperialism. He is the author of two unpublished collections 'Broken Rhythms and Archer of Words'.



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"SHARING LOVE IN DIRE TIMES" DAY 8

DAY  8

"Peace!
Just took a long walk like Jill Scott
A million voices throbbing her stillness, piecing the dots
Seeking for satisfying freedom from enraged contention
A bone that has clogged her throat stable with obsession"



PEACE CRIES



Peace!
Where is peace?
She is outside with her piece
Unhappy is the one written in her mind
She seeks for tranquil trailing from behind


Peace!
Just took a long walk like Jill Scott
A million voices throbbing her stillness, piecing the dots
Seeking for satisfying freedom from enraged contention
A bone that has clogged her throat stable with obsession


Peace!
Screams, begging beastly brother violence
For a treaty that ends war, an absolute credence
She preaches peaceful proverbs properly positioning purpose
Her echoing still small voice beckons all who blew her trombones


Peace!
Dies to walk these streets with bare feet
Tying strings from the north to the entire Nigerian sphere
She summons strong figures of speech to placate the repulsive gods
Whose grey horses has refused to drink from the pool with tender drops


Peace!
She cries daily in our blasts-ridden streets
When thousands unfed are silenced with death’s defeat
She wishes to be to be the pawn drawn by the paws of full resilience
Her vision is still bright in the darkness of calamity; relentless


Peace!
She frees your mind from backstabbing relics
Her presence clears the ominous dark sky in hysterics
The absence of her cannot mean war; she is no whore riding on the feeble
So, many who hold her hands on this road will feel her absolute piercing like a needle

©  Edwina 'Neofloetry' Aleme, 2015.






















 Edwina 'Neofloetry' Aleme is a Port Harcourt based spokenword performance poet, a graduate of Theatre Arts, University of Port Harcourt. She is a Freelance Makeup Artist, stage and film Actress, Playwright, a lover of the Arts in its totality. She is one of the founders of the fast growing poetry movement known as FIGURES OF SPEECH in Rivers State. She has performed in several states across Nigeria and Ghana. Neofloetry loves to travel for poetry sake; and has written several poems, short stories, playlets; though none has been published yet.


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Friday 20 February 2015

"SHARING LOVE IN DIRE TIMES" DAY 7

DAY 7


 "Then the voice of silence
 Loud and clear echoes d whispers"

 "I bring love"



        RED FLOWERS

 White gloomy morning
 On a dry green mat
 A squirrel racing towards me
 Red flowers on its beak, no lat
 And like saw dust my puzzled heart pours down
 Four red flowers
 On a little beak, no flag, no crown.
 Now restless i become in my gloomy bower.

 Then the voice of silence
 Loud and clear echoes d whispers
 "I bring love"
love pregnant with peace.
 Green and white yet swim in the ocean of black violence.
 Like titanic an avalanche before you lingers
 If in still born, love looses peace at your ease.





















 Assumpta Kelvin is a student of the department of
English and Literary
 studies,Kogi State university, Anyibga. She is a
contributor to the
 department's anthology of poems/short drama/
prose titled VOICES FROM
 THE CONFLUENCE: an anthology of creative
writing(2013).She hails from
 imo and lives in Abuja.



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"SHARING LOVE IN DIRE TIMES" DAY 7

 DAY 7

"Pledge are made like politicians
But before the cock crows
Denials are made like Peter"


       ON THIS DAY

This day is an irony
Of the confessions made by many lips
Blood split on white field
As love birds fight with passion

On this day Virgins become prostitutes
an exchange of flowers for flowers
This day passion begot sweet agony

This seasoned wind
Promised you gold
And took away your diamond
This day will leave many eyes sweating

On this Day
Passion will leave scars on many hearts
Fools will be made this day

On this day
Emotion and passion seems endless like
brass ocean
But it ends before the cock crows
Pledge are made like politicians
But before the cock crows
Denials are made like Peter

Turn the other side of this coin
And see the irony and deception of this  day.

This Day of
I love love
Love to love
But i dread those day called lover's day.






















CO THE BEST, is a young striving
entrepreneur that believes in
possibilities, the CEO, of CO THE BEST
iNTERNATiONAL®, a true Nigerian
with the birth name Okorode Christian.
Graduated from the Department of
Political Science, Niger Delta University. A
seasoned Life Coach/Motivational Speaker; a Spoken Word Poet and the Publisher/Editor in Chief of The Seed Magazine. Adding quality values to humanity and seeking wisdom to improve himself and man has always being his passion.



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Thursday 19 February 2015

"SHARING LOVE IN DIRE TIMES" DAY 6

DAY 6

"Once we come together
Betrayed by our eyes
Deep feelings for each other
Bringing us together
Over and over again"



   I  LOVE YOU

I love you
With a love that’s unsullied
I love you
With a love that’s complete
Refreshing, unaffected by events around
us
I love you in a totally unassuming way
With a warmth
That truly overwhelms me
I love you

You love me
With a clout that’s incredible
With compassion and absolute care
You love me
In an all consuming mode
Jealously and possessively claiming me
Even as I claim you
You love me

Fighting to stay calm
Pretending we can stem
This all consuming love
Radiating all over us
Ignited by passion
Once we come together
Betrayed by our eyes
Deep feelings for each other
Bringing us together
Over and over again
As we savor
This all consuming love.























Ifeoma Ndiolo - Enaholo is a seasoned media and insurance practitioner with vast experience in a working career that has spanned over 20 years. Having been a Teacher, Model, Actress, Journalist, Banker, Producer, Director and an Insurance Marketer; her inspiration her writing emanates from her versatile experience.
Ifeoma grew up in the Eastern part of Nigeria and moved to Lagos after her youth service year in Calabar.

She holds a BA (Combined Honours) in English and History from the
University of Nigeria, Nsukka and an MBA in Marketing from Delta State
University, Abraka.
Ifeoma has written three books – Panorama (a collection
of poems, Juggle the Dice (short stories)
and Hidden Treasures of the Heart
(a Novel).

She was trained as a journalist and
worked in the Television Industry for
six years before joining the Banking
industry for another four years. She
later joined the Insurance Industry, where she has had an over 12 year
career in Corporate Communications and Marketing. She manages to find time from her busy schedule to pursue her passion for writing.

Ifeoma is blessed with a husband and
three children.



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"SHARING LOVE IN DIRE TIMES" DAY 6

DAY 6

"Blessed are those who understand
Love easily
For they would understand
That love requires one to be
A loved"


    BLESSED

A valentine is nothing
Like a chocolate
Or a rose
For in a week, that shall be gone
But valentine remain

If love were always
Sweet to the tongue
Or fragrant to the nose
Each day would be like a
Valentine and we
Would go insane

Valentine just hang
Around the corner waiting
To be kissed long after
Special days have passed

But blessed are those
Who cherish well their
Lovers
For very few appreciate
This treasure as most desire
More while giving less

Blessed are those who endure
Love like a river
For the land which it moves
Will bloom making bounty
Exchange for labour
Blessed are those who understand
Love easily
For they would understand
That love requires one to be
A loved

And would not be liable to
Miss joy pursing pleasure
When each is dragged into
Love under duress

Happy valentine my love!
All my love is yours
Praise be love that brings
Us home
Pilgrims to those shores
Yearning vanities,
Sly smiles all that
Righteous anger rends,
Love have reconciled
Even in the darkness, where
Bitterness finds rest,
Thoughts of you are like a
Dawn of intent happiness























Nnaji, Chinenye Juliet, hails from Enugu State and was born on 23rd, November, 1998 to a family of six. she is  the first and only daughter of her family. she is through with her 0 level, but while in school, she was a science student but later came in contact with the "AJ House of Poetry" in her final year in school.

she started writing poems and have been opportune that her parents, let her attend some event like the Lagos Black Heritage Festival in freedom park. Cora at the British Council, Ikoyi, etc to perform and watch other talented poets perform …


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Wednesday 18 February 2015

"SHARING LOVE IN DIRE TIMES" DAY 5

DAY 5

"Nothing is powerful
As love shown,
Nothing is strong
As love felt
And nothing is so great
As love shared."


LOVE TODAY AND ALWAYS.

Show the cripple love
He will leap
Show him more love
He will walk.
Show him much love
He will dance.

Nothing is powerful
As love shown,
Nothing is strong
As love felt
And nothing is so great
As love shared.

Love is the essence of living.
The secret of living is sharing.
St. Valentine did it,
Mother Theresa did it
And we can do it today.
Through love we conquer all,
But by strife we destroy all.
Love is the mother of all living.


















Elizabeth C Uwandu is from Imo State, resident in Lagos. A graduate of
Mass Communication from Lagos State University.
I love expressing myself with poetry in a lucid and clear way.

ESSENCE OF VALENTINE.
As we celebrate this valentine, let show love to the deprived due to
circumstance by giving a ray of hope, succor and solace.



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"SHARING LOVE IN DIRE TIMES" DAY 5

DAY 5

"let’s do it again
like we do all the time
for alone we can do so little
Together so much is sure"


     LET’S DO IT AGAIN

hold my hand softly
fixing your fingers into mine
let me wrap them tenderly
let our blood mix
and form this flexible rope
let us swing on it
like we have always done
holding firmly, not letting go

let’s do it again
like we do all the time
for alone we can do so little
Together so much is sure
let me not swing alone
in this wide field
your loneliness i pledge
to quench
Together we form the force
for the feast
of fortune

let’s do it again
for you tickle me, as wind
My flowing river
your chats, likes and comments
your ideas, jokes and thoughts
your silences and motions
your teaching and insights
yours words of mighty heap
push thick dimples on my cheek

let’s do it again and again
It’s fine fun to do it with you
For you make me whole
You make me complete





















Amarachi Calista Attamah is an author of four literary titles; Tomorrows Twist (2007), My Broad Daydream (2011),, Akụkọ ifo Nnemochie
kọọrọ m (2014), it is a novel written in Igbo
language, and Making a
Difference (2014). She was awarded the Young
Writer of the year in 2011
by Young Creative Writers Society of Nigeria.
 The financial secretary of
Association of Nigerian Authors Enugu State.
Motivating the younger ones is
one thing she finds joy and fulfillment doing. She is a happy and simple lady who smiles a lot.


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Tuesday 17 February 2015

"SHARING LOVE IN DIRE TIMES" DAY 4

DAY 4


"In every woman like you with an ebony black layer
And gorgeous countless smile
I measure beyond common adage
Eyes can’t goggle to see crystalline"


A  WOMAN  I CALL HUMAN
 


I have listened to words
Reads tattered parchment story
And reflects on opinions
A woman is just a woman

But, when think deeper, I realize they are
Far away from the truth; reducing every beautiful
And gorgeous woman that scent like rose flower
And very intelligent to just a mere pressure



In every woman like you with an ebony black layer
And gorgeous countless smile
I measure beyond common adage
Eyes can’t goggle to see crystalline

And words can’t reduce your glamorous beauty
Recognizing the flame of your potential
Burning endlessly as the sun burns energetically


Your intelligence can’t be place under foot
Because you have cross the toll-gate that a woman is weak
Again, your courage speaks more in the light of confidence,
Boldness and steadfastness against the slogan of a world
That labels your brilliance and flesh



The endowed talent you have
Can’t be underestimated even as a woman
Knowing creativity unique like Egyptian tabloid
Making differences in the world
That always takes out possibility from actuality
Yet you prove new episode

That is why it will be an error knowing a fact and later twist it.


There is no best way to diction words
Than to craft it in this manner about what my eyes see in you
That is not rare in the pages of adoring a human not woman

I shared every word that falls from my mouth
See you not as pleasure for exchange
But a human I see not woman

















Fidel Davynovich is a freelance teacher, a poet and a critical writer who reside in Ajegunle, Lagos; and a member of Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM), a marxist organization. His literarily skill and writing has meed him a shortlist to be among the one hundred poets in World Peace Poetry International  held in Canada and another in African Street Writer in 2013 respectively. He is a revolutionary writer, writing  on issues that revolve around the hard social life of people, and uses his writing to expresses social change in human politics and government under the oppressor.




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"SHARING LOVE IN DIRE TIMES" DAY 4

DAY 4


"But I know love like I know the colour of my skin
Love is fair
Love is soft
Love is something unusual
Love can be anything you want it to be
But not a cloth too heavy to wear"

"She started
writing at the age of seven!"



    AFRICAN LOVE

The first time I met love
Love was dark in complexion
It always reminded me of Africa
My root deeply rooted in a falsified smile
Caused by the radiation of the sun
That never seizes to kiss my ebony skin

African love
A playlet written for queens and bees
These bees will rape you
And tell you queens
Just how much love is pain
"endure
So hang in there
No matter how much it hurts"
Your feet will one day bleed to heal
And even when your heart is broken by the wind
Love will definitely find you
And don't ask me when or where
Cos I don't possibly know
But I know love like I know the colour of my skin
Love is fair
Love is soft
Love is something unusual
Love can be anything you want it to be
But not a cloth too heavy to wear

African love
Believe me I've tried
And ever since I've know love
Love has never uttered a word
or whisper softly in my ears
And call me by my names
Nne
To mean mother
Nkem
My own

I want to kiss you from afar
Kiss you near
huge you warm
Forever glued
keep you in my heart long enough for you to see
I will love you soon
When my heart is matured
And my emotions ripe enough to be tasted
I will place my head on your chest
And forget that this world existing
African love
Believe me I've tried
And am still trying.





















Joyce Nwanokwai, hailed from the southern part of Nigeria, Delta State, she is a final year student of Criminology and Security Studies in the National Open University of Nigeria. she was born September 9th 1990, and started writing at the age of seven.


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Monday 16 February 2015

"SHARING LOVE IN DIRE TIMES" DAY 3

 DAY 3

"Borrow your smile for the sun
Lend your tears to the rain
Watch flowers spring across the plain
That much you're beautiful, that much and more"


           ADUNNI


Adunni
let the rumblings of our hearts
be a feasting of ours
and of the gods

Borrow your smile for the sun
Lend your tears to the rain
Watch flowers spring across the plain
That much you're beautiful, that much and more

Adunni
come dance
To the rhythm of my heart
Letting your anklets jingle to it's thump

like the songs of nature
the beads of love glittering along your waist
Journeying the stride of your thighs
Slaps single singles senselessly senseless

But beauty is shallow and smiles soon fade
When storms some and waves swell
Will the ship of our heart lock still stand?
Like aged cackles of the Beatles band?

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Adetimilehin "Vic'Adex " Inioluwa is a budding poet,
a student, artist and a public speaker whose aim is to
invoke crystal consciousness and asserts that
greatness that is meant for you too!

He also manages
an open source poetry platform called "thirty seconds poetry" (30sp)

find him on Facebook at Fb.com/victoradex94



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"SHARING LOVE IN DIRE TIMES" DAY 3

DAY 3

"I must love mainly the sad ones,
that were not loved
not by lack of lovers
but by lack of love."



  I CANNOT WAIT ANY MORE

I am in a hurry to wander by,
to love and praise world’s beauties,
before, all at once, they cease to be.
I must love mainly the sad ones,
that were not loved
not by lack of lovers
but by lack of love.
So proud of my want,
only will praise some wild
and lost in hidden waterfalls,
after untrodden ways.
I will break my heavy chains
and soon start my journey,
avoiding one chronic sadness
and the trampling of the ways
I will pass by.






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Edilson Afonso Ferreira is a Brazilian poet who writes in
English rather than
Portuguese, in order to reach more people. Has
been published in four
printed British Anthologies, online or printed
reviews like Cyclamens and
Swords, Right Hand Pointing, Boston Poetry
Magazine, West Ward Quarterly,
TWJ Magazine, The Lake, The Stare’s Nest and
some others. Short-listed in
four American Poetry Contests, began to write after
retirement as a Bank
Manager and is seventy-one years old. Lives in a
small town with wife,
three sons and a granddaughter.



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Sunday 15 February 2015

"SHARING LOVE IN DIRE TIMES" DAY 2

DAY 2 

"In songs of love we live
like one echoed by Solomon
in praise of a beauty to behold-
of a figure so 'eight' in shape
to attract the paintings of men
with all kinds of colours"
(so 'eight' in shape)


       ECHOES OF LOVE

These letters as hypnotism
cannot fall from the firmament
but shaping of a kingly kind
upon the seed of the living
echoing these letters.

In songs of love we live
like one echoed by Solomon
in praise of a beauty to behold-
of a figure so 'eight' in shape
to attract the paintings of men
with all kinds of colours

brushes of all types
to paint this green picture-
that of wood,iron and plastic
cascading in echoes of words
for ears to fly open
and skins to grow saintly sweats

now, love sweeps our streets
knocking doors to greet
in colour red
with flowers in pockets to share
among echoes of thunder,
but rain must fall to wet
and sun to suck our saintly sweats
as we hear echoes of love
from that silent part of the heart.





















Taiye kolawole is presently a student of Kogi State University, Anyigba.
Kogi state.He is also an indigene of the state (from kabba). He
does English and literary studies. He is a prolific writer and voracious reader who has had his poems
featured in two published poetry/prose anthologies: NEW VOICES FROM THE CONFLUENCE;
an anthology of creative writing (2013) and footmarks: Poems On One Hundred
Years of Nigeria’s Nationhood; edited by Akachi Adimora- Ezeigbo, etal.(2014). Taiye is base in Lagos.



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"SHARING LOVE IN DIRE TIMES" DAY 2


DAY 2


"The true secret of life is in life"
"In love, peace and harmony we pretend"


LOVE SPEAKS IN PEACE AND HARMONY

If bats fly in company
Bees can nest in regiments
Fishes should submarine in numbers
Ants are to march in battalions
For trust and undefiled love

The true secret of life is in life
If Nigerians can emulate the bats
If Nigerians can emulate the bees
If Nigerians can emulate the ants
For the trust and love undefiled

We pledge betrayed fidelity
Grievous troth from heartless hearts
Like serious covenant  of a drunkard
When we surrender ourselves for Utopia
Vows ageless and impotent like Methuselah

In love, peace and harmony we pretend
If we sincerely mind our future
Hope comes alive
Love turns to the necessity of mankind
And we smile when oneness and progress is our
watch word.























Ogundepo Titus Idowu was born 24years ago
and is a graduate of Public Administration.


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Saturday 14 February 2015

"SHARING LOVE IN DIRE TIMES" DAY 1

DAY 1

"I hear a wind of peace
Uprooting all tridax of bigotry
Cum cactus of chauvinism
And shoving them into the wilderness
To feed the soil with its debris"



WIND OF PEACE

I see a wind of peace
Coated in love likeness
Penetrating mortals heart
Tossing out hate shackles into oblivion

I hear a wind of peace
Uprooting all tridax of bigotry
Cum cactus of chauvinism
And shoving them into the wilderness
To feed the soil with its debris

I feel a wind of peace
Destroying dreams of diatribe
Abolishing acute arrogance
Ripping destructive heresies
All,into fragment of nothingness

I perceive a wind of peace
Cooling volcanoes' of racism
Erasing thoughts of avarice
That has hindered veracity
In this cosmos

I see a wind of peace
Dousing tempers of mortals
Whose dreams have been bombed
By demons masquerading as marabouts
Down the Sahara





















Ajise Vincent is a Nigerian who writes poetry. His works has appeared in
various print and online platforms. He is currently studying Economics at a
prestigious university in Nigeria.



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"SHARING LOVE IN DIRE TIMES" DAY 1


DAY 1

"Hunger, madness, deprivation
 No regrets!
 Die together we will
 rather than live apart!"



SLAVES OF PASSION

  The prison walls
  the warders whip
  the judge’s hammer,
  hit us in the brain!

  Our pasts- closed chapter;
  chains around us
  chastisement surround us
  the proverb hit us hard!

  Our choice we made
  damned the consequences
  ignored them totally
  we are victims of passion.

  Hunger, madness, deprivation
  No regrets!
  Die together we will
  rather than live apart!

  We remain entwined
  glued to each other,
  we are prisoners
  yes, slaves of passion.












*Ivvy Isabella Anito is a Nigerian poet and dramatist. She was born and
raised in the Niger Delta, Nigeria. She is a member of the Association of
Nigerian Authors. She is the Author of ‘Suitors from Afar’ a Play (Bulkybon
Books 2012). She lives in Lagos Nigeria.*

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Wednesday 11 February 2015

THE POETRY COURT IS CALLING FOR POETRY SUBMISSION TO CELEBRATE VALENTINE !!






THE POETRY COURT IS CALLING FOR SUBMISSION OF POEMS ON THE THEME = "SHARING LOVE IN DIRE TIMES''

Eriata Oribhabor: The political situation in our country has been turbulent. Notwithstanding, love and peace are great pillars upon which we build our hopes for enhanced socio-cultural and political tomorrow. If St. Valentine stood and died for love, it was a lesson for humanity. The poetry Court is a formidable body of poets with passion for love and peace, and have demonstrated these in diverse ways. In the spirit of keeping the Valentine week a worthy one. We are inviting beautiful poems that speak love, peace and harmony in this terrible times.

SUBMISSION GUIDE LINES

- All poems should promote peace, love and
harmony
- All contributors are entitled to a maximum of two
poems.
- Send poems to: Thepoetrycourt@gmail.com
- State VALENTINE POEM in the subject box
- Add short bio max 100 words

Poems will be published on www.thepoetrycourt.blogspot.com to promote love, peace and harmony.
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSON: 13th February 2015 mid night. Publishing of the poems on the blog www.thepoetrycourt.blogspot.com commences on the 14th of February 2015 through to 21st of February 2015.

Its a week for love
poems to be published on the blog,
so be among the poets to promote LOVE, PEACE and HARMONY with your pen.
Visit the blog from Saturday 14th of February 2015 to see if your poem
has been published on the blog, and also try to comment and share published poems on the blog as a way of promoting the poet who wrote the poem.

Let poetry speak LOVE, PEACE and HARMONY !!!

For more info call: Osigwe Benjamin 08069257714
or Usman Lawal Iyoma 08082960017

Monday 9 February 2015

Poem : WISHES ARE FANTASIES (Nigeria election 2015)

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WISHES ARE FANTASIES
(Nigeria election 2015)


Song

Nothing has changed.......
If not, than to have us sucked
More than they did...
Yesterday.........*3


We sell our trust to worthless buyers
In exchange for peanuts
We let them preach us decorate lies
For us to harbour hope for future blessings

They preach love but hold on so tight
To hatred in heart
They preach change but join the Abiku race
To inject us with pain

Beggars from different kiosk quarters
Scattered in streets, moving in tow
Clattering plates with their unturned songs
To win attentions, just for daily alms

And mummies line in death lanes
Straining their weak voices for already crushed wealth
That may not be revived
If hands folds on
With tight sealed lips

We lay our pains on titanic smiles
Merging sadness and happiness
Life and death
For fear is gradually kissing us out of life

We fix irony on words
To make wounded hearts mild
But we can't keep this ball of life rolling
On self propounded lies.

Wishes are dreams
Be the change you seek!
I will preach it
I will say it
I will sing it

Wishes are fantasies with wings
Flying away out of sight
With its betrayer's act
Abandoning you to drag yourself back into reality
Then hopelessness starts to parade in thought
Leaving one to wish
That he could not have sold himself to its mind's eyes
And here frustration befriends all static
wishers

I will preach it
I will say it
I will sing................ it
Like freedom songs.......

But certainly I won't dream it
For the income of illusions wishes
Are the shovels of our dead bones to come
Leaving the unburied dreams hanging
For more of our kinds to come drink
From glasses of pain and agonies

Direct and guide your trust
They are gods
And very priceless

Start now to chant your war songs
To be the change you seek
For there is no way out
Than we being the change we seek
Like Martin Luther King thought me
To always remember
That freedom cometh not freely to the oppressors
It must be demanded by the oppressed


Song

Nothing has changed.......
If not, than to have us sucked
More than they did...
Yesterday.........*3

Its time for the mass to know that the system is responsible for the moribund state of our lives, and we must put a stop to anti-poor government, and capitalism.
Buhari and Jonathan are not alternatives.

Poem by: Osigwe Benjamin
Song by: Momodu Ehiz