Colours of home I hear the call of / darkness when I lie/ in my bed/ listening to the worship songs/ that sin sings to my body/ God goes green but/ I am...
Author - Joshua Idowu Omidire
Joshua Idowu Omidire is a vibrant poet, editor, blogger, and social media strategist. His poems have appeared in Footmarks, Our Legacy of Madness, The Sky is our Earth: An- thology of 50 young Nigerian Poets. He was the winner of Professor Eruvbetine’s Poetry Prize. He also won Professor Hope Eghagha’s Drama Prize in 2012. He has been published in Pulse, Ynaija, Praxis, Literary Horizon: An International Peer-Reviewed English Journal, etc. He reports for The Journal Nigeria.
He loves reading hard books, listening to music, and scooping inspiration from the stream of mundane activities. He enjoys playing with street photography, graphic designing, and photo editing.
Words, like human beings, hate to be discriminated against. This is because they, like human beings also, have dignity. There is no form of discrimination in...
There is a voice journeying through the wilderness. It crouches here and stands there seeking to break free from entangling labyrinths. It is water here and...
Have you ever recited or read a poem that jarred in your ears or almost broke your jaw? A number of things could be the cause – the ungrammatical...