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TUESDAY POETRY

Tuesday Poem by Ibukun Adeeko

19 June 2018
Ordinary by Ibukun Adeeko The whim of the wind in the wild does…
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Tuesday Poem by Dami Ajayi

12 June 2018
CELLULOID (1993) All fools make pictures But pictures are no…
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Tuesday Poem by Soonest Nathaniel

5 June 2018
Dark Black ... for Achalugo... In the swamp where alders grow, the…
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Tuesday Poem Special by Niran Okewole

29 May 2018
THE SEVENTH LESSON The river is a python dancing   It pirouettes,…
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Tuesday Poem by Tunji Olalere

8 May 2018
ABOSEDE Then the women began to cry under the gaunt almond tree your…
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Tuesday Poem by Adebayo Lamikanra

17 April 2018
A Woman’s Body A woman’s body is Whatever you want it to…
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Tuesday Poem Special by Yomi Ogunsanya

20 March 2018
  The Strays For the anthropologist manqué from Ijebu…
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Tuesday Poem by Logan February

13 March 2018
Insulin Yes, they warned him about the sugar rush. And no, he…
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Tuesday Poem by O-Jeremiah Agbaakin

20 February 2018
fusion (for Akinsanya Damilola) does not start    with a…
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Tuesday Poem by Joel Benjamin Ntwatwa

13 February 2018
They Will Carry Me One day They'll take me away, Away, On a rainy…
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Tuesday Poem by Tonney Ibe

6 February 2018
RELEASE Maybe our scars are different, But we have both bled: The…
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Tuesday Poem by Dami Ajayi

30 January 2018
Tonight, you found my ire where I carefully hid it; You forced…
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Tuesday Poem by Chibuihe Obi

23 January 2018
after two swigs of absinthe, i yield myself to the philosophy…
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Tuesday Poem Special by Emmanuel Iduma

16 January 2018
I have tried to be a magician crossing seven seas and oceans, having…
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