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EUPHEMISM by Samuel Adeyemi

EUPHEMISM by Samuel Adeyemi

EUPHEMISMby Samuel Adeyemi Second Runner-up of the 2021 Kreative Diadem Annual Creative Writing Contest (Poetry Category) Murder by a scalpel is pronounced death,  not surgery. There is no intricacy    when the blade drowns in a body, whirling inside like a wet...

ELOCUTIO by Olaitan Junaid

ELOCUTIO by Olaitan Junaid

ELOCUTIOby Olaitan Junaid First Runner-up of the 2021 Kreative Diadem Annual Creative Writing Contest (Poetry Category) depending on // how //    it is handled     //   a poem //  could be //  a knife //     like a toddler //      with boobs //  i handle   my grief  ...

BITTER KOLA by Olalekan Hussein

BITTER KOLA by Olalekan Hussein

BITTER KOLAby Olalekan HusseinShortlist (Top Seven) of the 2020 Kreative Diadem Annual Creative Writing Contest (Poetry Category)Where are those beautiful days? When children pluck their happiness at night Listening to folklores under the mango tree smiling at them...

OEDIPUS TRAVAIL by Bayo Aderoju

OEDIPUS TRAVAIL by Bayo Aderoju

OEDIPUS TRAVAILby Bayo AderojuShortlist (Top Seven) of the 2020 Kreative Diadem Annual Creative Writing Contest (Poetry Category)I   Yesterday, the village rainmaker held rain. This morning, wind mimicked rooster,  woke a storm, blew rainclouds' eclipsing garb...

MEMORIES by Abdulmueed Balogun

MEMORIES by Abdulmueed Balogun

MEMORIESby Abdulmueed BalogunShortlist (Top Seven) of the 2020 Kreative Diadem Annual Creative Writing Contest (Poetry Category)A young man walks through  a hunted street and his phobia  resurrected from its tomb    Yet he walks, but with his eyes closed, ...

LIFE IS A PROPER FRACTION by Damilola Omotoyinbo

LIFE IS A PROPER FRACTION by Damilola Omotoyinbo

LIFE IS A PROPER FRACTION by Damilola OmotoyinboShortlist (Top Seven) of the 2020 Kreative Diadem Annual Creative Writing Contest (Poetry Category)i am neck-deep in a quagmire, my mind is a  gallery holding the dire portraits of my life   on my flesh, pain has...

THIS THING CALLED DEATH by Blessing Anaso

THIS THING CALLED DEATH by Blessing Anaso

THIS THING CALLED DEATHby Blessing AnasoShortlist (Top Seven) of the 2020 Kreative Diadem Annual Creative Writing Contest (Poetry Category)I was twelve when I first saw it, Cells fat and pink, the colour of cancer, I saw its fingers in Ma's falling hair and in her...

MELODY OF ANARCHY by Ajani Samuel

MELODY OF ANARCHY by Ajani Samuel

MELODY OF ANARCHYby Ajani SamuelShortlist (Top Seven) of the 2020 Kreative Diadem Annual Creative Writing Contest (Poetry Category)Our land is Atacama desert for The past two weeks Yesterday, I met my brother praying For rain under our stairs So last night, it rained....

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