‘Flower Blooms’ by Esther Eriwayo is a coming of age poetry book that documents familial challenges and subsequent breakthroughs. The book tells a single compelling story through fifty different, descriptive and connected poems that aims to hold the reader’s hand through the experience. While most
Tropical Man Fall: The wind cries Wendy, as bodies resonate with its hypothermic rattles. The ground is a tapestry of yellows, shapeshifting as the wind demands, the sky obscured by yellow laden trees constantly waving hallelujahs. Wendy chills with the Michigan, as the wind seeks her Tropical man in a temperate land, brace up for the
Kaltume Akubo’s Sonnets for Motherhood is compilation of 51 poems tailored for women who look forward to, or have experienced the joy of childbirth. The writing is accessible and easy on the eyes, it is meant to be read out loud in quiet moments of
BACK GOES THE HUMMINGBIRD The eagle glided and screeched to a halt Deserting prey to find another course Alas! King of Aves Why do you retreat in such haste? Why do you return in such a hurry? Hurriedly, it said "Back goes the hummingbird, For the flytrap, has from the bowels of its