Unassuming

An original by Oluwatobilola J. Agboola. All Rights Reserved ©

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Can we mend broken pieces of trust

trampled beneath the feet of deceit?

Forgotten Lover

An Apoetsbrain Original 2011 ©

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It appears you must always be by my side

For me to think more about you.

I know I may promise  you now

That I will think about you everyday that you are away,

But we both know that is untrue.

Mainstream

Featured Poem written by Bonsu Adjei-Arthur

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‘Sometimes, our best work is done in secret’ they say

But we all crave the day the public gets a hint of ‘our base’

Several stories get lost in the universe like those star gazes

Any reason why heaven does not record the crowd but the secret places?

When My Daughter Turns Five

Featured Poem written by Joan Toluwani Amos ©

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When my first daughter turns five

‘Princess!’ I’ll call her

Fighting the Lonely

An Apoetsbrain Original – All Rights Reserved ©

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I can see it in your eyes that you are lonely.

Beyond your smile, your actions, your clouding thoughts.

Beyond the things you wish to feel, and the things you wish to kill.

Beyond the though thoughts and the though actions.

Unsure

An Apoetsbrain Original Written 24.11.2012

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You are beautiful yet you ask

How beautiful am I?

You are strong yet you look in the mirror thinking.

Am I strong enough?

The Crazy One Within

There is something shocking about how far this other self of mine can go.

This retarded other entity of mine has no inhibitions or limits whatsoever,

But I do, I have to posses some. The lines are clear everywhere I look.

Yet, here I am, crazy within.

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Wholly Reaffirm

A featured poem written by Darlington Kelechi Obiora. All rights reserved ©

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With you, I feel whole and happy.

The minute we part, I feel empty and heavy.

It is like a part of me is no more.

You are my fate. I know.

The centre of my life.

For We Are Now All Mad

By Sandra C. Obiora. Written 28.12.2013

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This morning it felt as though I woke up into twilight.

At some point, twilight became dawn, and dawn was no where to be found.

Colours

Poem by Joe Onginjo ©

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I refuse to be the labels you give me.

The Advent

An Apoetsbrain Original 8/12/21 ©

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One quiet night 2000 plus years ago, heaven and earth collided in silence.

A baby was born.

Born to a virgin.

Born to heal the sick

Born to raise the dead

Decades Come and Go

An Apoetsbrain Original © Written 31st December 2019

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As I look out my window at bleak skies,

As I feel my way through the winter chill

As I think of glories past

As I dwell on things to come.

Viral

This is a featured piece written by Seni Joshua © All rights reserved.

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They’re the Millennials. The Gen-Zs. The Instagram, Facebook and Snapchat generation.

Fly

Featured Poem written by Joan Toluwani Amos ©

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To the one with whom I share so many things in common

Love Isn’t Perfect

Featured Poem by Olusola Bamisile (BB). All rights reserved ©

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Guess you are waiting to read another sad story

Or the title aligns with your thought process

But permit me to contradict myself

Love is perfect and perfect love chases all fears

I Dream of a Maze

Poem Written by Krystal Orellano Weldon © 2020

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I Dream of a Maze

I dream of a maze;

My world appears to be a mystery.

Words

Featured Piece written by Derek Oluwamuyiwa Fodeke-Rodgers ©

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If we talked…
If we talked and I spoke sweet words…
If we talked and my words cradled your face like they were hands…
If you heard everything you’ve ever wanted will you truly be happy?
Or would you mimic me?
Whisper the words you want to hear to your self.
Cradle your own face with your own words.

The Missing Game

*Note: This poem has been published with the New York Public Library Zine 2017 ©

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It begins as a creeping thought. Like an itch.

Easy to ignore, difficult to locate.

It graduates into an illness, and soon your mind is stuck on replay.

Like a swarm of butterflies with needles in their mouths.

I Lived!

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An Apoetsbrain Original Written 3/04/2020 © All rights reserved.

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I lived. I lived. I lived. 

I know that eight billion others exist alongside me. 

I know that others have come and gone before me. 

I know it has all been said before in different ways and phrases.

I know that in the picture of space and time we are smaller than a spec.

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Yet this is the beauty of our humanity.

That we can cycle through life enjoying what has always been enjoyed. 

Thus, I will not get lost in mundane thoughts. 

I will not get stuck in mediocrity.

One and all eight billion will know! 

I lived. I lived. I lived! 

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To Squash A Star

An Apoetsbrain original ©

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Tonight I looked up at a star as it sparkled so brightly.

I lifted up my hands in the freezing night and placed the twinkling Little Star between my thumb and index finger all set to squash it.

Love is Patient

An Apoetsbrain Original © All rights reserved.

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Love is patient, love is kind…

Love does not envy neither does it boast

Or so the saying goes.

‘I love you’ is said everywhere for everything at every time.

Love is uttered in every other sentence.

I Just See Another Human

An Apoetsbrain Original © All rights reserved.

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I know you have trillions in your bank account.

I know you have been born into much wealth.

Grey Skies II

Poem by Sandra Chukwudumebi Obiora. 13/10/2020 All rights reserved ©

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The Melancholy of grey skies is something I seek after.

Desperate at times to find myself.

Desperate to remain in that blankness,

Desperate to flee bright skies. 

My African Hair

By Sandra C. Obiora. © All rights reserved (Written 25.10.2013)

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My hair and I are not always the best of friends.

We sometimes fight, and we sometimes make up.

She gives me all this work and all this trouble,

Yet I love her for what she is, and what she represents.

Heart Burn

An Apoetsbrain Original. © All rights reserved.

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I feel it. In my chest, and in my throat.

As though a snail has lodged itself in my soul.

Sliding and slicing. Bringing with it poisons.

Love Isn’t Perfect

Featured Poem by Olusola Bamisile (BB). All rights reserved ©

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Guess you are waiting to read another sad story

Or the title aligns with your thought process

But permit me to contradict myself

Love is perfect and perfect love chases all fears

The Black Race

Poem by Sandra Chukwudumebi Obiora. Written 30/03/2020 © All rights reserved

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I woke up feeling pained within me. Pained for the world we live in. Pained for her cries, but mostly pained for the black race.

Salt & Ashes

Featured Piece by Tribes of Asaph

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I feared no end.

A joyful will, I penned it down.

Years went by, faces changed.

The Sun remained the same. 

Words

Featured Piece written by Derek Oluwamuyiwa Fodeke-Rodgers ©

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If we talked…
If we talked and I spoke sweet words…
If we talked and my words cradled your face like they were hands…
If you heard everything you’ve ever wanted will you truly be happy?
Or would you mimic me?
Whisper the words you want to hear to your self.
Cradle your own face with your own words.

A Thousand MegaPixels

The following is a featured piece written by Bonsu Adjei-Arthur © All rights reserved

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Arthur’s Introduction to this piece

I have looked at how my world has changed so much and how creative we have become and the extent of magic we can pull up with our creativity from our devices and everything. However, I also felt the need to talk about the downside of all these great things and how people don’t fit. I played the part of the architect generation and how I am happy to see the delusion, the reality and all the glamour of everything and how it seems to all play into my grand plan. As such, I titled it. A THOUSAND MEGAPIXELS. Enjoy.