TUESDAY POETRY

Tuesday Poem by Umar Abubakar Sidi
Things Poets Do
Bad poets do not see poetry as light
or the…

Tuesday Poem by Akin Akinwumi
Five Haikus
1.
I put down the year
Like a mad dog. Once welcomed,
It…

A Poem by Yemi Soneye: Christmas Special
Christmas on a Street
A girl holds herself out of the window
like…

Tuesday Poem
After Making Love
After making love
we hear footsteps,
familiar…

Tuesday Poem by Ayomide Owoyemi
HOPE
Wherever the heart seeks is home.
Back home we had no hope,
Hope,…

Tuesday Poem by Efe Ogufere
DANCING
i
this woman’s body is not a home,
beautiful broken…

Tuesday Poem by Peter Akinlabi
A Failure of Speech
A surfeit of light throws
Dark images onto…

Tuesday Poem by Adetoun Samiat
Worship
(for Olamide's lover)
Your body is my religion:
god…

Tuesday Poem by Saddiq Dzukogi
A Poem with a Line from Carl Phillips
My body folds into a small
space,…

Tuesday Poem by Adebiyi Olusolape
Why I Write
I
See
See the toddler sitting
Upright in an opening…

Tuesday Poem by Roland Nduka Akpe
What a Lichen
Like lichen I likened what you meant to me
to…

Tuesday Poem by Dami Ajayi
SHOESTRINGS
Of all things to filch,
you chose shoestrings
perhaps…

Tuesday Poem by MissMeddle
Where to put your hands when kissing a man
Bones.
trace the…

Tuesday Poem by Tares Banigoe Oburumu
I was drowning
in what seemed to be a memory,
not mine,
something…
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.