Poems
We have got a collection of thought-provoking poems authored by poets from different backgrounds.
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....
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 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
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 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 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 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....
IN THE NAME OF TRANSCENDENTALS by Ibe Obasiota Ben
IN THE NAME OF TRANSCENDENTALS by Amarachi Iwuafor In the Name of Transcendentals - Second Runner-up of the 2020 Kreative Diadem Annual Creative Writing Contest (Poetry Category) in faith i write that this poem is not a hangman even though there are too many lifeless...
SHE STARED BACK AT US WITH HER EYES CLOSED by Amarachi Iwuafor
SHE STARED BACK AT US WITH HER EYES CLOSED by Amarachi Iwuafor She Stared Back at Us with Her Eyes Closed - First Runner-up of the 2020 Kreative Diadem Annual Creative Writing Contest (Poetry Category) When death walked in, it took in its arms one person, ...
HYDROLOGY by Chiwenite Onyekwelu
HYDROLOGY by Chiwenite Onyekwelu Hydrology - Winner of the 2020 Kreative Diadem Annual Creative Writing Contest (Poetry Category) You were my first undoing. You whom I met at the shorelines of my life. In the sizzling of oatmeal too close to ruins ...
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