TUESDAY POETRY

Tuesday Poem by Ibukun Adeeko
Ordinary by Ibukun Adeeko
The whim of the wind in the wild
does…

Tuesday Poem by Dami Ajayi
CELLULOID (1993)
All fools make pictures
But pictures are no…

Tuesday Poem by Soonest Nathaniel
Dark Black
... for Achalugo...
In the swamp where alders grow,
the…

Tuesday Poem Special by Niran Okewole
THE SEVENTH LESSON
The river is a python dancing
It pirouettes,…

Tuesday Poem by Tunji Olalere
ABOSEDE
Then the women began to cry
under the gaunt almond tree
your…

Tuesday Poem by Adebayo Lamikanra
A Woman’s Body
A woman’s body is
Whatever you want it to…

Tuesday Poem Special by Yomi Ogunsanya
The Strays
For the anthropologist manqué from Ijebu…

Tuesday Poem by Logan February
Insulin
Yes, they warned him about the sugar
rush. And no, he…

Tuesday Poem by O-Jeremiah Agbaakin
fusion
(for Akinsanya Damilola)
does not start with a…

Tuesday Poem by Joel Benjamin Ntwatwa
They Will Carry Me
One day
They'll take me away,
Away,
On a rainy…

Tuesday Poem by Tonney Ibe
RELEASE
Maybe our scars are different,
But we have both bled:
The…

Tuesday Poem by Dami Ajayi
Tonight, you found my ire
where I carefully hid it;
You forced…

Tuesday Poem by Chibuihe Obi
after two swigs of absinthe, i yield myself to the philosophy…

Tuesday Poem Special by Emmanuel Iduma
I have tried to be
a magician
crossing seven seas
and oceans,
having…
DAMI AJAYI
Dami Ajayi finds a way to fuse being a writer into his busy doctor schedule. Known as Jolly Papa (JP for short) by his friends—a sobriquet he took from a song by Rex Lawson—the poet cum doctor cum music critic makes seamless transitions between these orbits around which his life rotates.