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November Leaves
COLORFUL PETALS OF GLOW AND OF SHADING SNOW
Colorful Petals of glow and of shading snow
Know and show where to let go
One step at a time
One step at a time
One person, one breath
At a time
One lesson, one test
At a time
Everything done
At a time
Everything done
In...
Apocalypse – Poems by Nnaemeka Oruh
Apocalypse
Pattering on roofs
Like defiant horse hoofs
The whirlwind;
Deafening thunderclaps
Dark night seared by
The brightest of lightning
Harbingers of the deluge
The heavens opened
Sheaths of rain, linking up with
Other sheaths ‘raining’ from underneath
Tarred...
An Opening Eye – Poems by Chris Msosa
6:30 TRAIN
When she passes
through these parts
The Iron serpent resting
the ground
Violently comes to life
morning becomes
A noisy Trap
interrupted by her careless churn
A raging bull ranting below her
And the onlookers will tell you
nothing less
They have been...
The Blood Orange Sky – Poems by Abigail George
The blood orange sky
My brother and I believed in ghosts from an early age.
When we were little we thought they would haunt us to an early grave.
They drowned in the air like swastikas; armies in flight.
When...
Everything Nubian Goes – Poems by Princely Hope Glorious
Ebony Speech
Moons and moons ago
we would go to the mountains at night
and dance softly in the moonlight,
like the flames beneath a brewing pot
we would speak in song
with whistling willows in the glorious
tongue of my forefathers,
which kissed the heart
like whispers...
A Matter of Size – Poems by Charlina Daitouah
B.C.
I present crisp dollar bills and
a human deity.
Settling in the circle of dust, hands
and interlocked feet, making bitter
obeisance.
I search for new gods. My fathers’
gods left for the city.
So, I stand before translucent
beings in the seat of gods,
who...
Three Months of Courtship – Poems by Anele Mkhwananzi
Intense mo.
Tattooed on my soul like a painted fart
sprouted in my vision like coloured raindrops
through a rainbow – the banner of races at odds
God’s reprisal at pious displeasure
your silky contours sing the silent mayhem of tortured prayer
variegated spasms...
Poetic Pasteurization – Poems by C. Uche Onuora
Sacerdotal Prelude
In the beginning…
And squeamish raindrops
Dodge thirsty acres, as
Mollified mules trudge, in
Brace of rifling ploughs…
Displaced Dibias chafe
Raise militant shoals, by
Sharing...
Rape of Innocence – Poems by Ebele Chizea
RAPE OF INNOCENCE
Bloody Rivers
It was Sora who caused the flow
Barely a moon ago
She played ten-ten in dusty playgrounds
Under sunlit skies
Groans and Moans
The earth’s womb threatens to implode
Her insides smell like death
Flies and vultures ballooned with...
Telescope to the planets – Poems by Abigail George
If I was writing a prayer for peace
If I can see from where I am
Standing (next to my bedroom door.
This is ajar because I left it like
That) through the window made of
Lines of yellow light, shiny parts
At my front door and stare into the
Face of a stranger, what...
