THE ALLEGORY OF A TIRED MUMMY, BY OHIKHEMOTA OO VICTOR
This allegory relates the story of an evolving country, Nigeria, showing the different things she's personified to have done. Symbolism and metaphor help drive home the point that this country that we speak of, although has come a long way, has a whole lot of journey-ing left to do.
"i love the way i’m stared at like the old photograph of a dead relative.
life is nothing but an upturned mud house, rattling with shades of darkness that cry within."
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10/17/2022
2:21
THE BOW IN THE SKY, BY BOLUWATIFE ANIMASHAUN
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10/15/2022
2:02
ENSLAVED, A POEM BY OGECHI VERONICA
They come with a cupful of pinned promises
Singing songs of salvation to our weary ears
With these drowning drooling dreams
And ripping ripened realms
They came with bells of dismembered peace
To shred the rope of our unison in pieces
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9/7/2022
1:39
AIN’T WE ALL BLIND? A POEM BY BURAIMO OLOYEDE
Ain’t we all blind from the inside?
To have been ripped off the good life we all deserve
To have been dead long of ignorance and inability of one voice as humans we are
To have allowed thieves and crooks to have their hands in every pot
To have been slaughtered off our vision by hypocrites and deceivers of change
To have let humanity suffer, pain, and agony we never deserve.
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9/7/2022
1:49
HOME, A POEM BY EDWIN OLU BESTMAN
“many people have prayed/ some fell in love with the holy spirit/
others engaged the church with Christ on their lips.”
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