PEN Poetry Pot: THRENODY by Adamu Yahuza Abdullahi
To the skulls the ground swallowed To the dreams that got ruptured To the faces bereaved of smiles And afternoons of collapsed skeletons To the moments that tick behind the…
PEN YORÙBÁ: Etí ẹ Mélòó?
ÈWÌ Láti ọwọ Àbàlú Khadijat Opẹ́yemí Ìbà elédùmarè Ọba tí ń bẹ kí bẹbẹ ó tó máa bẹ, Mo ṣèbà ẹ̀yin àgbààgbà tí ń bẹ nílẹ̀ yí, Ìbà ọkùnrin, ìbà…
PEN YORÙBÁ: IKÚ OLÚBÀDÀN
ÈWÌ láti ọwọ Oyekanmi Abdulwarith Àbí OLÚBÀDÀN ti ìlu ÌBÀDÀN, Ọba Saliu Akanmu Adetunji (Ajé ògúngúnísò kinni) ni ojó kerìn din logbon osú kẹjọ, ọdún 1928 (26/8/1928), ó sì ku…
PEN Poetry Pot: GIMLET-EYED BUT SO FLAWED by Mazeed Mukhtar Oyeleye
GIMLET-EYED BUT SO FLAWED when the pen becomes the sepulchre of the ink, keeping it still like our tongues that stay blunt, in hiding, behind our sharp teeth; we become…