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Poets in Nigeria
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OUR MOUTHS HAVE BECOME A GRAVEYARD, A POEM BY AYOMIDE INUFIN D’GREAT & TAOFEEK AYEYEMI
OUR MOUTHS HAVE BECOME A GRAVEYARD is a spotlight poetic masterpiece written by multi award winning Nigerian Creative Writer Ayomide Inufin D'great which features prominent Nigerian Haiku poet Taofeek Ayeyemi (Aswagaawy), the masterpiece expresses the freedom of the society that has been taken away by high powers and authorities.
I’VE COME THIS FAR TO GET CLOSE, A POEM BY SAMMY WANKALA AND INUFIN AYOMIDE
I'VE COME THIS FAR TO GET CLOSE is an Afro-international collaboration between Kenyan youngster Sammy Wanjala and Multi Award winning Nigerian Creative Writer and the poem centered on the struggle from nothing to something.
I FOUND YOU
This is the story of a new found love. The birth of a beautiful romance.
CALL FOR SUBMISSION: OF BROKEN BRIDGES POETRY SUBMISSIONS
Absolute Poetry is calling for submission of poems for her maiden anthology themed 'Of Broken Bridges'
MY HOME OUR HOME
A poem on the domestic chaos at home and a nation at large.
THREE POEMS BY UMMILO
TWO POEMS BY UMMILO
AGATHA
But oceans are beautiful even in storms
She remain glowing in a coal mine
Bragging of mornings and love songs
Of parties and candle sauce
Of candles and glittering sights
but inwardly detriment and anguish
LIFE AND DEATH IN A GARDEN
About life and death but using the euphemism of Garden and roses. The roses are actions and results. The garden is life and leaving it is death.
UNFORGIVENESS IS A BLANK PAGE
I've been caged by unforgiveness for years without realizing the effect it was having on me. I lost joy and peace. Though I was hurt I felt I had the right to punish those who hurt me. The interesting side was that I was hurting those who were ready to love me. This poem is from a deep side.
BROKEN PEOPLE’S MUSIC
A poem describing the horrors of being broken emotionally, the feeling of aloneness, the anxiety and the feeling of sinking deep into ditch of sadness.