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Mother; My Shiny Star – James Ohiomoba

Such love you possess so deep I feel it while asleep. With discipline and fear of your whip a mother’s love, I can’t see the depth of it. Nine months you carried me keeping me safe and fit. In pain you...

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I Love You Mum – Yeside Oyemakinde

I woke up feeling so cold. It felt strange, I couldn’t understand all of it.. My mind was wrapped up in different thoughts, I was so confused. To make matters worse, I saw eyes peering at me… “What are...

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A MOTHER; MY MOTHER – Halimah sanusi

When the home is upside down, She becomes the pillar that fixes it When the wind of sorrows blows, She absorbs it all to make her children smile. When the man(the head) feels weak, She becomes the neck...

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All I See is My mum – Obadote Esther

I walk into my room and all I see is my mom: the bedspread, the pillows, the curtains. Some she bought, others made. I take a walk to the kitchen, stops over at the sitting room, my mom again… she...

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Life Is Suspense?

“Suspense is life, you never know what to expect.” Such words I’ve heard for years from people that I look to with respect. Now seeing through a baby’s eyes I discover life with God has security and...

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Lukewarm Ness

Are you Hot? Or Cold. Remember when you were in the world. You clubbed every friday. You couldn’t count the girls you got laid. Or the guys that got you laid. Your everyday outfits revealed what was...

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FoOILish

Waiting with 9 other virgins in this room I’m tired already, won’t the bridegroom Come already? I’m checking my wristwatch, time is 20:16 Well it has to PM, Prime Minister of the gospel? But hey, when...

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Closer Than My Breath

I’m with you wherever you go.Just call me”I hear this all of the time.But I sit on my bed and I have travelled nations and seas alone.Slept out of my bed in the coldWalked in the dark aloneFallen into...

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A FOSTER KID’S ALLEGORY

As I sat in my bed, Gazing into the glimmering and starry sky And succumbing to the pull of the night’s dead silence Nostalgic feelings sought to scale the fence of my heart I tried to wage war against...

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Thank you, Abba

ABBA Father, I’m grateful for the grace and power  to be wealthy, healthy and well. Protecting my heart and giving wisdom, realizing the truth that saves from hell. Waxing strong in the benefits of the...

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Life not Skin

Do You wash the external part of your tank alone and leave the inner part?! Or you ensure that just the outer part of your car is sparkling..? You look into the mirror every now and then, Checking...

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Rhyme and Reason presents “The Excision”

Rhyme and Reason presents “The Excision” Yo! Are you a lover of art, poetry and rhymes? Then Rhyme and Reason Concert 2016 “The Excision” is where you have to be on June 11 at 4pm! The venue is The...

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The exTENT of His kindness

Jesus saved you from your mind crashing, why are you still the ONE DRIVE-in? Trying to clean yourself up with your filthy rag. I think you should throw in that towel Give up trying to run away from the...

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The Children

Do you hear the children crying? I can hear them every day, Crying, sighing, dying, flying Somewhere safe where they can play. Somewhere safe from all the dangers, Somewhere safe from Crack and AIDS,...

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MEET JANETTE…IKZ – The Excision 2016

Come 11th of June, 2016 by 4pm, “The Excision” which is the 2nd edition of the highly anticipated “Rhyme and Reason” concert will take place at the Dome, Off Admiralty Way, Lekki, Lagos. In...

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ALMOST (saved) by Ezekiel Azonwu

Watch Ezekiel Azonwu live, Come 11th of June, 2016 by 4pm, at the “The Excision”, the highly anticipated “Rhyme and Reason” concert will take place at the Dome, Off Admiralty Way, Lekki, Lagos. ALMOST...

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JIG-A-BOO by Jackie Hill Perry

Watch Jackie Hill Perry live, Come 11th of June, 2016 by 4pm, at the “The Excision”, the highly anticipated “Rhyme and Reason” concert will take place at the Dome, Off Admiralty Way, Lekki, Lagos....

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DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL

Dear diary, Today was the day it changed for me. The events of today have already been etched in my mind; Still I feel urged to pen it down. Well, here’s how it started:   As dawn announced his...

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DEAD TO MYSELF | ALIVE IN CHRIST

I see His blood-stained brows, Making a path for the blood flowing from His forehead. I see His arms stretched across horizontal wood; With rusty-old nails pierced into such beautiful hands- Hands that...

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Back & 4th by Okenwa Igbokwe (Book Review)

Okenwa’s ‘Back & 4th’ is a simple, relatable combination of pieces that are written with truth. Okenwa shows the struggle that exists within man’s heart to please God and also stop doing things...

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