RENDEZVOUS I I have slept through storm But how do you sleep in this GET UP and pray So you don’t fall into temptation My spirit is greatly troubled Like the sea by the tempest He moved a … Continue reading POETRY | RENDEZVOUS by OGHENERO EZAZA
PAROUSIA Magazine is calling for submissions for The Gospel Issue #5 to be published by April 2017 during the Easter Celebration. This issue welcomes narratives on the Death, Burial, Resurrection and Ascension unto Glorification of Jesus Christ which as seen … Continue reading Call for Submissions PAROUSIA Magazine The Gospel Issue #5
In the silent and cold nights, When the stars thronghola In twinkling lights Across the distant brooks, A lone Shepherd’s gleeful looks Tell the memory of Bethlehem song And the undying themes In the immortal hymns. Biography: Shola … Continue reading BETHLEHEM SONGS by Shola Balogun
We have fallen, all dust, from His glory Each in Sin’s gutter, has gone astray. From whence we stood is all wreck and sandy We have fallen- all dust, from His glory But His mercy calls, formed us a … Continue reading FALLEN DUST AND A REMEDY by Showunmi Olawale Michael
Baby Jesus the greatest gift that God ever gave Mankind Your presence in our hearts this Christmas is indeed precious and priceless gesture and that’s why on this merry day I can’t help but welcome you into my mind, … Continue reading Baby Jesus by Kariuki wa Nyamu
SANCTIFY ME Wield my eyes around your words like the wrap of dust in a whirlwind that if I may kiss dust and swear at/ against your generousity (air-breathe water-drink, food-eat, words-speak) with my yearn for sins & iniquities, I’d snap back into life in your words. My mouth. Never let it rest in praise of your infinite mercy running into my soul & washing all my worries into a tiny fleck of crushed dust & dirt. Wrap my tongues into tunes of psalms of you, O! Lion of Judah & pride … Continue reading Two Poems by Nome Patrick Emeka
I-THOU I sit In a coffee-house As I so often do, Alone, But never Left alone Sitting anonymously In the warming crowd Disappearing In a favorite Stuffed oversized Chair As if hiding In a peaceful Winter cloud. I peer … Continue reading Two Poems by Rick Davis
O infant beautifully beyond description O Christmas lily come Be present with a regnum-sacerdotal presentation Hail the dawn of bliss felix-Navidad day for fame Oh! Blossom yonder Serene Weather Come Oh! Firm and fire Yuletide So bliss for … Continue reading MERRY XMAS by Odoemenam Joseph Echezona
GOD WHY? God, I’m already on my kneels Before unsealing my sinful lips Asking for your mercy Because I know it is sinful to ask you “why?” God, I’m a contrite sinner with an unclean heart But looking at your … Continue reading Three poems by Onwuchuruba, Francis Ikedichukwu
…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
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
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
PAROUSIA Magazine is calling for submissions for it third issue to be published by September 2016. This issue welcomes narratives that are standard for Christian publications. Interested in Fiction, Creative Non Fiction, Poetry, Review, Interview, Photography, Painting, Drawing, Graphic and other creative art works. Submission is open to every writer regardless of age, experience or location. Submission for PAROUSIA Magazine Issue #3 is now open . Poetry: Send up to 3 poems per submission of any length and style. Fiction: Send 200-1000 words for Flash Fiction and 1000-3000 words for Short Fiction. Creative Non-Fiction and Essays: Send … Continue reading Call For Submissions PAROUSIA Magazine ISSUE #3
Dear Readers, Welcome to the Second Issue, the Purity Issue of PAROUSIA Magazine: A Christian Arts and Literary Magazine. This Purity Issue explores narratives on virtue, morality, abstinence, righteousness, integrity, decency etc. but not mainly as it welcome other narratives … Continue reading PAROUSIA Magazine Purity Isuue #2
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
