Poems
We have got a collection of thought-provoking poems authored by poets from different backgrounds.
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 ...
“We should always be looking to create opportunities” – Interview with Uchechi Princewill
TABLE TALK"We Should Always be Looking to Create Opportunities" - Interview with Uchechi Princewill Uchechi Princewill is a fiction writer and medical student at the University of Benin. He is a founder and administrator of The Story Tree Challenge. His works have...
NOTES ON CRAFT: ON SECOND PERSON POINT OF VIEW by Olakunle Ologunro
Notes on Craft: On Second Person Point of View by Olakunle OlogunroDear Writer, The second person point of view (POV) is a very tricky one to pull off. It’s not as though the other POVs are easy, but with the second person, there’s the additional damage of trying to...
PORTRAIT OF LOVE AS AN ARSONIST by Oluwatosin Babatunde-Olotu
PORTRAIT OF LOVE AS AN ARSONIST by Oluwatosin Babatunde-Olotu I I was eight or nine when I learnt to balance my gaze and heart on broken bodies and dreams. Each time father returned from another fruitless journey to Egbeda in Ibadan, he’d mouth denial as if...
