March Poetry Collection
iTell stories and everything beautiful receives poetry and short story submissions from several writers across African countries.
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The following entries were collated for the month of March, 2023
POEM I: MY FRIENDS
by Joel Oyeleke
were together for lifeyet they only lived theirlove inside of winks, blushes and butterflies fluttering wings of affection.I learned that you can be 2 metres closeto your lover and yetbe too shy to love,or even the world would be too quickto be against it.Often the space between distant loversis that spark in the heartthat says; no matter what, love is our bond.
POEM II:
by Daniel Jacinth
A long age Expired. When at last, we knew how little Would survive us—how little we had rebuilt Out of the huts of history’s shame Up from a past that’s grounded in pain I rise I'm a black ocean, leaping and broad, Welling and surging, I bear in the tide. Leaving behind nights of terror and fear I rise Into a wondrously clear light Bringing the blessings that my ancestors gave me, I am the intuition and the hope of the enslaved person.
A long age Expired. When at last, we knew how little Would survive us—how little we had rebuilt Out of the huts of history’s shame Up from a past that’s grounded in pain I rise I'm a black ocean, leaping and broad, Welling and surging, I bear in the tide. Leaving behind nights of terror and fear I rise Into a wondrously clear light Bringing the blessings that my ancestors gave me, I am the intuition and the hope of the enslaved person.
Believe me, my heart beats for youAt every bit of the talking clockOn ny love's wall and all it ticks isYour name, loudly that the deaf, I, canHear with my ears & see with my blind heart.All I want from you is not just a momentWhich keeps in bank, ephemeral enjoyment,Rather, a home in your beautiful heartWhere I can shroud my shivering love.Oh, the pretty Eve! Can i be your Adam?
ABOUT THE WRITERSJOEL OYELEKE IFEOLUWA (W.C V), author of THE THEM IN ME (DIREWORDS 2022) is a budding poet, student, avid reader, literary enthusiast and writer from Osun state, Nigeria.
He keeps his poems simple yet deep and real.
He has poems published on outlookIndia, poemify, ourpoetryarchive, yellowhouselibrary, poetryplanetbookpublishinghouse, ccaf.africa, 7th Chinua Achebe Essay/Poetry anthology, storymirror, artingarena, and elsewhere.
He is currently a poetry Reader and Editor at ARTING ARENA Magazine.
OLADOSU DANIEL JACINTH is a poet, novelist, songwriter, musical artist, scriptwriter and ghostwriter. He has worked as a ghostwriter with different writing firms.
He's currently a ghostwriter at Premier Royal Writes, and also a music journalist.
ABDULRAUF OLAJIDE is a young poet from Nigeria. He writes about nature, love, pains, the evens and the odds in his country, Nigeria. His works have been published in world voices magazine and forthcoming elsewhere. He was the second runner-up of the WVM June Contest, 2022.
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