PLEASE IS IT NOT INSANITY? Please I want you to be my Jurist Even if you’re not a legal luminary I know you can separate the good from bad Even without consulting any oracle. I must talk my mind … Continue reading HAKUNA MATATA! by Onwuchuruba Francis Ikedichukwu – Issue #3
IN YOUR PRESENCE In your presence I am safe I am joyful, I am obedient Out there I am entangled In a web of immorality In your presence my heart is pure My heart is repentant, my heart finds … Continue reading CRAFTSMAN by Oghenero Ezaza – Issue #3
…His Bone Cord A lesson taught; To remain still at HIS Blood-bled cross, peering Deeply, sprightly into the consuming Darkness and desecrating Locusts, For these parlous things Who come benign In drape tongues to smudge and Extirpate Jesus’ submitting Sheep, … Continue reading Poetry from Francis Annagu
UGLINESS Ugliness, of evil beauty I come in spill feel of painted words Shaded in large lines of hated hues Galleried a facebook dread of hurtful look Readers, I hope you won’t puke? Hell is such … Continue reading Poetry from Tanimonure Richards Adewale
When the evening fellowship had ended, all Christians but Mrs Kimathi, left. For the members of this fellowship, this was not unusual: Mrs Kimathi always stayed behind for counseling. Mr Kimathi, her husband, had married a second wife: … Continue reading The Devil Tempted Us by Samuel Kamugisha
DO NOT Do not trade your heart to please anyone Search deep down in your heart And settle the cravings in your heart She is dearest to you Do not shun your conscience to love the world Agree … Continue reading Poetry from Oghenero Ezaza
SUN BLOOMS IN GODMAN Our days have were numbered Not by ‘Odomankoma’ But by creed narrations Made out of sparkling dust cities Chirped out of factory machines. Yesterday, a war sagged our home– And our souls drained! It … Continue reading Two Poems from Nana Arhin Tsiwah
Words of Blood Soon the pure thrust of Our lay Would draw blood Blood that would spit fire in form of venom To burn all crabs and dogs to ash Blood that are spittle in Our mouth To … Continue reading Two Poems from Ojo Taiye
MY STRENGTH, MY PURITY My strength has strength in multiply ten because my heart is pure with no sinful sour. The vigors of my mind has prevail over sap inaction of frozen sin Instill my heart so I … Continue reading Three Poems by Amore David Olamide
AWARENESS Sleepy neutrons and reclining protons – Sliding inward, I find myself At the edge of a map Approaching a world of serenity Beneath the apparent Chaos, instability and discord Of daily stressors. In these times, It is difficult to … Continue reading Poetry from Rick Davis
BLESS MY SOUL ………………………………………… Ingrate! Was it not written in the holy book that I fulfilled the prophecy, created a future for you and your unborn generations? Who could have done that if not a generous me that was … Continue reading Poetry from Ojo Omeiza Blessing
You can read this publication in PDF format of PAROUSIA Magazine Easter Issue by following this link A HOPEFUL ALTERNATIVE We run into another day; “of sorrows, shames and frets” We wake to printed headlines; “of bombs, disease outbreaks, and … Continue reading Poetry from Adebote Seyifunmi
You can read this publication in PDF format of PAROUSIA Magazine Easter Issue by following this link Calvary: A Meditation “But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water.” … Continue reading Poetry from Sylvia Riojas Vaughn
You can read this publication in PDF format of PAROUSIA Magazine Easter Issue by following this link Holy Communion This Lenten season comes with a call, inviting me to make a free fall, prostrating before the altar and ceaselessly praying, … Continue reading Poetry from Inalegwu Omapada Alifa
You can read this publication in PDF format of PAROUSIA Magazine Easter Issue by following this link DRAW ME NEARER. Today, I’ve come like a mud in water I have come like a child with no mother I have … Continue reading Poetry from Amore David
You can read this publication in PDF format of PAROUSIA Magazine Easter Issue by following this link WE CRY ABBA FATHER Years before the foot of our fore-fathers ate from the plate of earth, he fathered our fathers as feathers … Continue reading WE CRY ABBA FATHER by Ogunsanya Enitan Olaoluwa
