Nigeria Poetry Magazine

08/05/2023

Poetry World #6

It's like riding a blue bike through a lavender field on a bright sunny day. Enjoy poetry and photography by artists from around the world. Featuring new work published in Nigeria Poetry Magazine.

Wax Poetry and Art presents Poetry World #6. Poetry World collects new poems published on the Wax Poetry and Art Network.

24/09/2022

Announcing: Poetry Contest #16

Wax Poetry and Art invites all poets to participate in Poetry Contest #16. Submissions are accepted from all places on Earth. Submissions close December 31st. Click to read guidelines and submit.

Wax Poetry and Art publishes poetry, fiction, visual art, and photography from around the world. Read guidelines for submitting to Poetry Contest #16

07/09/2022

New in Poetry World #4:

Udoka
by acilegnA
(Lagos, Nigeria)

Udoka was nicknamed, "the parrot." He would talk and talk till your ears fell out.

The entire village avoided him. A simple "good morning" could end up being a three-hour conversation on anything. From why the sun was not as hot as the day before, to how he felt the akaraseller adds garri in her beans so it swells to become more, to how the rain fall did not fall as hard as it did the previous time.

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Read 'Udoka' by acilegnA, poet from Lagos, Nigeria. Published in Nigeria Poetry Magazine, part of the Wax Poetry and Art Network.

02/09/2022

Wax Poetry and Art presents:

Poetry World #4

Read what's on the minds of poets from Canada, Nigeria, USA, England, Eswatini, Scotland, South Africa, Tanzania, and Brazil.
(Listed in order of appearance).

Wax Poetry and Art presents Poetry World #4. Poetry World collects new poems published on the Wax Poetry and Art Network.

01/09/2022

Wax Poetry and Art presents,

Poetry World #4

Capturing the poetic breath of humanity, this new issue presents 25 new poems from an international roster of poets. Take a journey around the world, in poetry.

Wax Poetry and Art presents Poetry World #4. Poetry World collects new poems published on the Wax Poetry and Art Network.

01/05/2022

Wax Poetry and Art presents,

Poetry World #3

Featuring new poems from around the world, including "Riding in Cars With Black Boys" by J.Victoria, and "Tagged in San Francisco 1942" by Marjorie Sato-Bukowski. Published, edited, and designed in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada by Kirk Ramdath.

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Wax Poetry and Art presents Poetry World #3. Poetry World collects new poems published on the Wax Poetry and Art Network.

26/01/2022

Questions and Wishes

by Alozie Chigozirim Ekene
(Lagos, Nigeria)

Tell me something dear,
Are you tired of everything in this world?
And are you still trying to fill that void?
Or is there something that you're searching for?
Have you been longing for change?
Yet everything seems to remains the same?
It seems to you like you're nowhere near the shallows,
So deep and far back, you can't even notice your own shadow.

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Read the poem, 'Questions and Wishes' by Alozie Chigozirim Ekene, poet from Lagos, Nigeria. Published in Nigeria Poetry Magazine, part of the Wax Poetry and Art Network.

14/11/2021

Betrayal
by Nurudeen Ibrahim
(Ogun State, Nigeria)

You turn a blossoming house of coral beads
To one full of black slimy stones.
You turn a barn full of giant yams
To one stocked with knives and spikes

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Read the poem, 'Betrayal' by Nurudeen Ibrahim, poet from Ogun State, Nigeria. Published in Nigeria Poetry Magazine, part of the Wax Poetry and Art Network.

09/10/2021

New in Nigeria Poetry Magazine –

"Betrayal" by Nurudeen Ibrahim

You old wrinkle-faced unruly demon.
Sitting busily and working in the hearts of men.
Spinning and weaving with black cottons.

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Read the poem, 'Betrayal' by Nurudeen Ibrahim, poet from Ogun State, Nigeria. Published in Nigeria Poetry Magazine, part of the Wax Poetry and Art Network.

09/10/2021

New in Nigeria Poetry Magazine –

"Questions and Wishes" by Alozie Chigozirim Ekene

Is there always someone there to replace you?
Just because you're scared to portray the real you?
Do you think to the world it's fair?

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Read the poem, 'Questions and Wishes' by Alozie Chigozirim Ekene, poet from Lagos, Nigeria. Published in Nigeria Poetry Magazine, part of the Wax Poetry and Art Network.

19/09/2021

Wax Poetry and Art presents

Poetry World #1

Read new poems from around the world. Poetry World collects new poems published on the Wax Poetry and Art Network. Enjoy and share the poems in this collection, and submit poetry for the next.

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Wax Poetry and Art presents Poetry World #1. Poetry World collects new poems published on the Wax Poetry and Art Network.

14/02/2021

Poetry World #1: Poem 13 of 17

Published in Nigeria Poetry Magazine

Break-in-Transmission

by Osuluku Woyengideigha Favour
(Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, Nigeria)

Break in, Transmission!
Transmission is a burglar
Cracking through the windows of routine
Inputting and displaying
Broken news on untampered screens
Tonight

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14/02/2021

Poetry World #1: Poet 1 of 17

Published in Africa Poetry Magazine

A Confectionery Post

by Chukwunenye Glory Ngozi
(Ketu, Lagos, Nigeria)

Sunset finds me dreaming:
Of bites of pleasure, each melting flavor -
My tongue is a store of every taste.

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13/09/2020

First Place – Poets of Nigeria Contest #2

Someone's Been Living Inside Me

by Chigeru Delight
(Port-Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria)

I never believed in me,
bewildered by the lustre I see now.
I tried a little shivering through fright.

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27/08/2020

New in Nigeria Poetry Magazine:

Unrequited Love

by Progress John Attat
(Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria)

Unrequited love
Is a phenomenon,
One I’m experiencing right now.
I sit waiting for just a little attention from you

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18/07/2020

Poets of Nigeria Contest #1 - First Place

Mood Trips

by Molokwu Dayan
(Lagos, Ikotun, Nigeria)

I want to sing about loneliness,
The lyrics clear on my tear tracks,
My voice wobbling with every sorrow on pitch,
My lungs filled with sadness,
So my breath is a whistle.

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02/05/2020

45 Poems of Protest: The Pandemic

The Birth of a New Song is Now

by Blessing Omeiza Ojo
(Abuja, Nigeria)

Who taught birds how to sing? I don't know.
Life is a miracle: how birds strung songs
with sweet serene melodious tone and flap
their wings as backups, painting the world
into a nirvana. There's a bird in my mother's neck.
Those glorious days, she flew it and our room
became colourful so much that every thing
you touch becomes a rainbow.

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