YORUBA DRUMS Welcome to Africa Mr White Welcome to Ilaro my friend so glad you honoured my invitation this is the Redeemed Church I know we play your drum kit and blow your saxophone with coloured lightings on the … Continue reading YORUBA DRUMS by Oghenero Ezaza | Christmas Cascade Issue 9 | PAROUSIA Magazine
His Name Heals A man thinks of how to run. He thinks of how to live He thinks of how to rest. [In the house of things that eat us up] —When life turns purple, He wants his body … Continue reading His Name Heals by Abioye Samuel Akorede | Christmas Cascade Issue 9 | PAROUSIA Magazine
Pain Relief Only the eye-witness The very soul bereft of the paradise bliss The mouth that chewed the apple of death Can of truth, tell the true tale of loss But surely I can tell of my own experience … Continue reading Pain Relief by Olatubosun David | Christmas Cascade Isue 9 | PAROUSIA Magazine
In God’s Country I walk barefoot in God’s country Lost in thought Only the screech of seabirds Break in Waking me out of my grief Shaking me out of my half-dead state I sit down in the sand And … Continue reading In God’s Country by Arlene Antoinette | Christmas Cascade Issue 9 |PAROUSIA Magazine
We are delighted to announce that PAROUSIA Magazine has been ranked among the Top 50 African Literature Blogs. This is a good news for us and we are excited about it. We are ranked 31st on the list … Continue reading PAROUSIA Magazine Ranked Among Top 50 African Literature Blogs
PAROUSIA Magazine is calling for submissions for it 9th Issue to be published by December 2018 during the Christmas Celebration. The theme of this forthcoming Issue is The Christmas Cascade Issue. Isaiah 7:14 14 Therefore the Lord himself will give … Continue reading Call For Submission: CHRISTMAS CASCADE ISSUE #9 | PAROUSIA Magazine
BETRAYAL We were in the garden of doom eleven of us with him. He said we should watch an hour, an hour that took eternity to elapse. Praying within boundary of wills, he poured libation of sweat and blood to … Continue reading Two Poems from Benjamin Elemide | PAROUSIA Magazine
For today Release me, God, one more time, from carrying these boulders of regret and guilt that I have created through thoughtless acts and blind inactions. They are part of my journey now, forged into my past with no … Continue reading Three Poems from Thalia Dunn | PAROUSIA Magazine
Hurrahing in Harvest Summer ends now; now, barbarous in beauty, the stooks rise Around; up above, what wind-walks! what lovely behaviour Of silk-sack clouds! has wilder, wilful-wavier Meal-drift moulded ever and melted across skies? I walk, I lift up, … Continue reading Hurrahing in Harvest | A Poem by Hopkins, Gerard Manle | PAROUSIA Magazine
JOURNEY I looked out of the train window I saw a young woman sat next to the sitting statue on the bench if you didn’t know he was not real you would never know. The woman sat opposite me gets … Continue reading Three Poems by Marc Carver | PAROUSIA Magazine
Pied Beauty Glory be to God for dappled things— For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; For rose-moles in all stipple upon trout that swim; Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings; Landscape plotted and pieced—fold, fallow, and plough; And áll trádes, … Continue reading Pied Beauty | A Poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins | PAROUSIA Magazine
GOD’S MIGHTY ATOMS By Reinhard Bonnke 1. Physics teach us that the atoms, although so miniscule Possess ferocious potency one hardly can control. Each atom is a power pack and so is each believer, If we can say “Christ lives … Continue reading GOD’S MIGHTY ATOMS | A Poem By Reinhard Bonnke | PAROUSIA Magazine
THE MYSTERY OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Part 1 By Gideon Cecil Shakespeare’s legacy to mankind is rich indeed. His gifts to the English Language excel those of all other poet’s put together. He has put words and phrases into men’s … Continue reading THE MYSTERY OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Part 1 By Gideon Sampson Cecil| PAROUSIA Magazine
ON THE WALK TO EMMAUS Plodding through with him on Emmaus road You don’t know you know him He colours history you nurture as fantasies with pictures, with quotes with facts, with truths like he’d seen it on … Continue reading ON THE WALK TO EMMAUS | A Poem by Oluwafemi Babasola | PAROUSIA Magazine
The Windhover To Christ our Lord I caught this morning morning’s minion, king- dom of daylight’s dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon, in his riding Of the rolling level underneath him steady air, and striding High there, how he rung upon the rein … Continue reading The Windhover by Gerard Manley Hopkins | PAROUSIA Magazine
The Love Slave When I would falter and stop on the way My heart lose courage and I fail to pray, Remind me, deal Lord, of the cross on the hill, Of the man who hung there, Love’s mission to … Continue reading The Love Slave by E W Kenyon | PAROUSIA Magazine
