Poems
We have got a collection of thought-provoking poems authored by poets from different backgrounds.
MIRACLE MOUNTAIN by Timi Sanni
MIRACLE MOUNTAINby Timi Sanni Winner of the 2022 Kreative Diadem Annual Creative Writing Contest (Poetry Category) with a line adapted from Samuel A. Adeyemi's 'Flight' In the same heat with which I've forged my convictions,they bend now. This is one poem for pain....
Winner of the 2022 Kreative Diadem Creative Writing Contest
Winner of the 2022 Kreative Diadem Creative Writing ContestHere is the highly anticipated list of the winners of the 2022 Kreative Diadem Creative Writing Contest. Now in its sixth year, the prize seeks to recognize the best literary works by Nigerian writers aged 21...
PORTRAIT OF FADING, INTO A SONG by Olowonjoyin Mohammed Sanni
PORTRAIT OF FADING, INTO A SONGby Olowonjoyin Muhammed Sannia chord strums in my earpieces & that’s how I know how to unwear some memories that cliché tears in them like tornadoes cliché havoc. my skin, a burnable piece of grief, & songs, fires soothing the...
HOW DINNER COMES IN MY HOMETOWN by Ayodeji Israel
HOW DINNER COMES IN MY HOMETOWNby Ayòdéjì Israel perhaps, this lunch of smokes with dried bodies and red wines of sad bloods with elegies of jubilation fumed in the air whenever a fork rattles a flesh is no more redolent, my neighbours packed in a pair of chickens...
THE CATERPILLAR’S CALIPERS by Jake Sheff
THE CATERPILLAR'S CALIPERSby Jake SheffI. So much depends upon the muse’s invocation, Glazed with white feathers all abandoned at The rainy entry; signs of fire are present: Cain and tar. A self-made song to justify The ways of death to kings, or justify The...
THIS LAND IS NOT AN HABITAT FOR US by Enobong Ernest
THIS LAND IS NOT AN HABITAT FOR USby Enobong Ernestin this dream a family bends down to search for the body of their father among the remains of bomb blast a new orphan is soaked in the colour of a loved one's blood i wake up, pleading God’s son’s blood tv is on....
HOW TO MOUTH BROKEN PSALMS IN AN EARTHQUAKE by Wisdom Adediji
HOW TO MOUTH BROKEN PSALMS IN AN EARTHQUAKEby Wisdom AdedijiShortlist (Top Seven) of the 2020 Kreative Diadem Annual Creative Writing Contest (Poetry Category)1 It's okay to let go. to spread your palms over the clitoris of your shadow & mouth your fears like the...
THE CLEANSING by Taiwo Odesanya
THE CLEANSINGby Taiwo OdesanyaShortlist (Top Seven) of the 2020 Kreative Diadem Annual Creative Writing Contest (Poetry Category)Say, frustration is the seed mothering these Bullets the earth is puffing, Say, it is the gun flooding this heat, These droughts, these...
FOR THE FIRST LOSS OF INNOCENCE by Adedamola Olabimpe
FOR THE FIRST LOSS OF INNOCENCEby Adedamola OlabimpeShortlist (Top Seven) of the 2020 Kreative Diadem Annual Creative Writing Contest (Poetry Category)your first kiss was a crime scene. stolen from you in the darkness of your mother's kitchen. it slid down your throat...
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
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 ...
IT IS HOPE THAT KEEPS THE FLAME OF DREAMS DANCING by Balogun Abdulmueed
IT IS HOPE THAT KEEPS THE FLAME OF DREAMS DANCINGby Abdulmueed Balogun Winner of the 2021 Kreative Diadem Annual Creative Writing Contest (Poetry Category) It is hope that keeps the flame of dreams dancing, even when the wind of forlorn throws at it a thousand blow....
