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TUESDAY POETRY

Tuesday Poem by Umar Abubakar Sidi

9 January 2018
Things Poets Do Bad poets do not see poetry as light or the…
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Tuesday Poem by Akin Akinwumi

2 January 2018
Five Haikus 1. I put down the year Like a mad dog. Once welcomed, It…
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A Poem by Yemi Soneye: Christmas Special

25 December 2017
Christmas on a Street A girl holds herself out of the window like…
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Tuesday Poem

19 December 2017
After Making Love After making love we hear footsteps, familiar…
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Tuesday Poem by Ayomide Owoyemi

12 December 2017
HOPE Wherever the heart seeks is home. Back home we had no hope, Hope,…
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Tuesday Poem by Efe Ogufere

5 December 2017
DANCING i this woman’s body is not a home, beautiful broken…
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Tuesday Poem by Peter Akinlabi

28 November 2017
A Failure of Speech A surfeit of light throws Dark images onto…
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Tuesday Poem by Adetoun Samiat

21 November 2017
Worship (for Olamide's lover) Your body is my religion: god…
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Tuesday Poem by Saddiq Dzukogi

14 November 2017
A Poem with a Line from Carl Phillips My body folds into a small space,…
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Tuesday Poem by Adebiyi Olusolape

7 November 2017
Why I Write I See See the toddler sitting Upright in an opening…
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Tuesday Poem by Roland Nduka Akpe

31 October 2017
What a Lichen Like lichen I likened what you meant to me to…
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Tuesday Poem by Dami Ajayi

24 October 2017
SHOESTRINGS Of all things to filch, you chose shoestrings perhaps…
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Tuesday Poem by MissMeddle

10 October 2017
Where to put your hands when kissing a man Bones. trace the…
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Tuesday Poem by Tares Banigoe Oburumu

3 October 2017
I was drowning in what seemed to be a memory, not mine, something…
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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.

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