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I’m pleased to say that it felt like home journeying to the birth of this book. Of course home is where the “art” is. This chapbook contains 20 poems scribed from the very core of my heart.
“Dancing With The Tides” sends a message or talks about the need to being in equilibrium with the happenings in the world and not to be too attached to one specifically.
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Abebi
Cries of a baby
Tears of Iya Abebi
Evil some people call life
Isn’t it darkness that brought her to life?
At birth she takes a sweet full
Colostrum it is called
Nigeria, I call Abebi
Iya, I call her forefathers
Abebi did not grow like others
When a father drinks the milk,
of the child
Doesn’t the child’s belly get bigger?
Abebi did not take in
Enough milk while growing,
even though, filled with milk and honey
Abebi is now weaned on garri
It was on one of those nights that I remembered something she used to say whenever I complained about unanswered prayers: “Maybe the body is the first altar God builds. Maybe when you can’t speak, He listens to the ache.”
and I held the ocean within my bone marrow and could leap on the back of an unbridled gust of wind, without tripping out of my own skin. Suppose my prayers did not hiss out of corners of my teeth like calloused hands and fall flat on the earthen ground like a spilled...
The Things That Bury Us By Munachim Amah (Georgia Review) Brought together in holy matrimony by their shared faith, things start to fall apart when the husband, Jonas Odimegwu, stops going to daily mass, opting to join a mysterious group of people who do not believe...
When merry morn did grace my soul's abode, I held within the sun's embrace the bliss, Of naked beams, of grace, of hope bestowed, In beauty's palm, all wrapped in tender kiss. At dawn's sweet call, I rose to greet the day, Like dew upon the humble weed's green blade,...
Do you know how to mend a broken mirror? It is very delicate work. Time-consuming, attention-demanding. You must be prepared for the little pieces that bruise your fingers, for the waves of doubt that urge you to let them go. You must be prepared for the voices in...
The Sprinng Writing Fellowship is a FREE and intensive 6-week online mentorship program for developing Nigerian, Ghanaian, Liberian, and South African writers with great potential and willingness to learn. The fellowship is only open to writers between ages 18 and 25...
Notable Fiction and Nonfiction by African Writers in the First Quarter of 2024 Allah Have Mercy by Mohammed Naseehu Ali (The New Yorker) With a father who is constantly away, a twelve-year-old boy and his cousin find themselves at the mercy of their uncle, Usama, a...
The smile on my brother’s face ran away with his hope & he is searching through the rising sun, wishing to catch them from the scattered rays. Since the day the insurgency started, he became a walking corpse- digging for a sanctuary. I stripped my ears naked to...
The people in your city are inflated by a need to slash and burn, and you are already a dress unraveling at the seams. The wind will take you like a jester starring in a staged farce, toss you hither, thither, smash you against stolid-faced walls and wrinkled roofs,...
If there is one genre that has captured the imagination of people from all walks of life throughout the world, it is folktale. The teachings and lessons in folktales depict the realities of life and the immediate consequences of actions, whether good or bad. It...
