MOONSCAPE Night came and enshrouded the world With its veil of darkness. Soon its torch, the moon, appeared...
Author - Marvel Chukwudi Pephel
Marvel Chukwudi Pephel is a prolific Nigerian writer who writes poems, short stories and other things besides. His works have appeared or are forthcoming in Pyrokinection, Jellyfish Whispers, High Coupe, The Kalahari Review, The Avocet, The Naked Convos, Peeking Cat Poetry Magazine, Praxis Magazine for Arts and Literature, Academy of the Heart and Mind, I Am Not a Silent Poet, PIN Quarterly Journal, African Writer, amongst others. He was shortlisted for the 2016 Quality Poets Competition. His poetry was selected for the Best New African Poets 2016 Anthology. He is currently a two-time winner of the Creative Writing Ink Competition (Ireland). You can follow him on Twitter @Marvel_C_Pephel.
TO THE PAINTER OF DREAMS Paint my dreams blue, For it is in it I will swim – sea. For it is in it I shall soar – sky. Paint my dreams blue, For...
Limpopo. Bafana is born to a farmer and a seamstress. It is a cold morning, so cold the doctors worry for their own health too. He is the first son of Mr...
When Chike read in the magazine, Nature, that frogs abandon their offspring in the water, he became angry with frogs and with his mother. “Pastor, is it...
THE EVE MANIFESTO I. GIRL The last time I saw her, There was tenderness in her eyes. She was a tender verse, A mellifluous song. Today, she’s a bunch of...
Lagos, Circa 3096. The streets of Victoria Island wore a sophisticated look. Old folks in every house lived with a gadget called Lagoonborg; other cities were...
SOMETHING TELLS ME I SHOULD RUN To you. To the fire that is a memory. To remembrance that is grief. Something tells me I should run To the haunted rooms in my...
