Theme: Longing Sam Ojiyi Desires burned to ashes in fires and blew away with the wind Love gave birth to biting obsessions and the pain of labor they bring Stretched beyond the perception of  being a misunderstood fiend Poetry in motion drowned in oceans of love potions, she is… Oluwadamilola Hybrid Your body..  Curves and […]

Theme: Hot and Cold Oluwadamilola Hybrid Hot and cold.  Life’s simple code.  Tragedy unfolds.  Before success untold. HighPerMind I laid still to catch my breath between the fire and a feel of ice. Burnt in half as the offering, I was half to the ground ashes. Numb, mute and frozen Still was my other half. […]

Theme: Muffled Voices Oluwadamilola Hybrid Eerie air.  Strands of hair.  Standing on the edge.  Of faint muffled waves.  Desmond Adeoye-Adetoba In the horde of multiple voices lay the symphony                                Yet three became the loudest and cacophonous.         […]

Theme: Memoirs of a cabbie Oluwadamilola Hybrid Number 10, Watford street Four of them stopped my taxi Two minutes into the journey Four had become two through the rear view mirror Desmond Adeoye-Adetoba Day 1. The epileptic engine spluttered to life.                         Day 2. […]

Theme: Thorns and Roses Leonell Echa She killed a wolf and the Fae arose This is not a tale of minions Her passion and guilt were purely rose Now she bears this crown…or thorns Oluwadamilola Hybrid Good and evil Together in wholesome rhythm Roses are beautiful It’s thorns inevitable Vera Bonny He was the thorn, […]

Theme: The Guilt Leonell Echa Many were called but few responded Did the others find defeat? ‘Cos Mary had found what he never wanted… And it did smell like feet. Oluwadamilola Hybrid I erred, i begged, you forgave. I’m here still filled with the guilt. If in my heart still dwells an unease. It must […]

Theme Purity Oluwaseun Okunlola The purist sought purity through and through. The chemist said it was untrue. I for one searched top, bottom and middle And found it did not ring always true. Leonell Echa I’m unaware of the word But i am of God If good is to heart that is pure Then bad […]

Theme His Trojan Horse Umar Jimeta Achilles had his tendon, but that his weakness Hercules had his strength, but Zeus didn’t need a goddess Samson fell for Delilah, and his gift she came to destroy All they had to do was burn the horse. but the gods are to blame for the fall of Troy […]

Theme: Rudolph the slam charm champ! Leonell Echa Dear Rudolph, I heard you’re rich now A real G would go for a spare magazine, but i’d say Go for Gold Besides, you’ve killed enough already. Sincerely yours…Dolphin Desmond Adeoye-Adetoba The Ruddapoet with the poetic rudder Steering words in patterns of tingling rhymes Our minds you’ve […]

Theme: She was my country Bash Amuneni She was a country… A yard sprawling in feats of virgin intentions “Shagged” in multi tones of lure in oily sedation To a tang of rust and a cherry of hope- she was a country GrandS.U.N In-timidated, Timi dated Initiated, In-tense…Present continuous? Obvious scars, black eyes evidenced receipts, […]