Prof Pius Adesanmi’s horrific death aboard the crashed Ethiopian Airlines’ flight 302 on 10th March, 2019, rightly drew an outpouring of responses from around the world. While many of the tributes were occupied with the … Continue reading ADESANMI: RELIGION AND THE PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL By Mike Ekunno | Essay | PAROUSIA Magazine
IMAGINATION & GOD Walking the neighborhood I am struck by the dishonest wind of sleeping embers in the eyes of fragmented souls. In my imagination urban speed is replaced by sugarcane stalks bending in breeze and deer emerging from shadows, … Continue reading IMAGINATION & GOD by Rick Davis | Poetry | PAROUSIA Magazine
SERMON ON MOUNT KNOWLEDGE He slapped me for no reason I wanted to slap back, but held back my hand for fear of treason I viewed my fused face and discovered the only solace was to cry As in such … Continue reading SERMON ON MOUNT KNOWLEDGE by TUMININU AIYEDUN | Poetry | PAROUSIA Magazine
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For Those Who Don’t Know Chocolate : Angelic Vision of Love for a New World Title: For Those Who Don’t Know Chocolate Author: Amirah Al Wassif Publisher: Poetic Justice Books & Arts Year: 2019 Pages: 44 ISBN 10: 1950433013 … Continue reading For Those Who Don’t Know Chocolate : Angelic Vision of Love for a New World by Joseph. S. Spence, Sr. | Book Review | PAROUSIA Magazine
IN NEED OF A NEED! A need is something that is an absolute requirement for survival primarily and every living thing, man especially has got survival instinct in him. On this side of creation, we all do all we can to make ends meet, in order to keep body and soul together; no breathing human is exempted from the rat race for relevance, eminence, and excellence to keep one’s social influence or prominence. If one doesn’t achieve all in his life time, he transfers the desire to his children and that continues for generations. There is no end to … Continue reading IN NEED OF A NEED! by Mary Joy Orola | PAROUSIA Magazine
1. Before you met me, my life. was a series of unfortunate events. this body was not mine and how to get away with murder was my google top search. I. in this deadpool too. needed no sense 8 to … Continue reading Poems from Prudence Okeoghene Emudianughe | PAROUSIA Magazine
His Shining and Unconditional Love (Septolet) Love Gracious savior Preserving our souls Such comfort Resurrection Saving grace His love for us Author’s Comments: The Septolet poem has seven lines with a total of fourteen words. It has two parts … Continue reading His Shining and Unconditional Love by Joseph S. Spence, Sr. | PAROUSIA Magazine
SLIPPING OFF I see Him healing my wounds, wounds that words cannot say Scars fading Filling my void, voids that I have long lived with I never believed in a God for a while Though, I dare not question or … Continue reading Three Poems from Damilola Omotoyinbo | PAROUSIA Magazine
NOTES TO GOD You guide the Pencil from My teeth As I write Words – Touching You. You spin Me dizzy Never lost But always Present. You are so Close to me And micromanage My happy soul With alluring … Continue reading NOTES TO GOD by Rick Davis | PAROUSIA Magazine
A Plea to Dear Lord I ask Not for silver and gold Nor for the luxuries that make one err I ask not for joy That makes for grief at sunset But that I may be your mind The best … Continue reading Two Poems from Olatubosun David | PAROUSIA Magazine
true self: lying on the pillowy bed i count my breath running from random thoughts like jonah fleeing nineveh i encounter a system of larks realizing that the observable universe is transient and less than real as i eclipse the … Continue reading true self: by Rick Davis | PAROUSIA Magazine
Inhale Easter Grubby months of heat, dawn hauling dry days of dust, wearing down, wearing through Lenten testing northern people discover resurrection in pastel flowers and trees bursting leaves while in this tropic land of dry and wet, … Continue reading Inhale Easter by Victoria Crawford | Easter 2019
The Empty Pot When I’d suggested to my son that we move the seedlings from the foyer to the corner of our lot, I thought I was saying Goodbye in the usual, sheepish way but, in late fall, he marched … Continue reading Three Poems from Rita Anderson | Easter 2019
SLIPPING OFF I see Him healing my wounds, wounds that words can not say Scars fading Filling my void, voids that I have long lived with I never believed in a God for a while Though, I dare not … Continue reading Three Poems from Damilola Omotoyinbo | Easter 2019
Awake! Awake my heart it’s time to pray To pray for all he’s done And raise the anthem loud and clear For Jesus made the way. Awake my mouth and sing his praise So sing it everywhere And let the … Continue reading Two Poems from Ogunojuwo Oluwaseyi Damilola|Easter 2019
