Written by Sandra Chukwudumebi Obiora 17th Sept.2022 © All rights reserved
There is just something about you
The curve of your brows,
The slide of your nose
The slant of your lips
The depth of your gaze.
Category Archives: Poems
Human Thou Art Immortal
By Sandra C. Obiora. Written 7th February 2022
‘Let Us make man in Our image,
After Our likeness’
was on one newly created day uttered
By the One who existed before time began.
Sweet Africa
Poem Written by Krystal Orellano Weldon ‘Gypsy’ © 2019
We all come from the desert root of the African tree. Continue reading Sweet Africa
My Brain @ 100%
A poem by Sandra C. Bamisile © Written 4.11.2011
If I could use 100% of my brain’s capacity and not be limited to just about 10%, I would…
I would think of why I am on earth, and actually answer it. Continue reading My Brain @ 100%
Balloon Called Pleasure
An Apoetsbrain Original. All rights reserved © Written 15th December 2021
It’s shine cannot be ignored.
Big and bright. Laced in gold.
Begging to be held and owned.
Sparkling, distracting, exciting.
Thus you reach out in a heartbeat.
You stretch forth to grasp it.
The Burden of Will
An Apoetsbrain Original. All rights reserved © Written 5th January 2022
I am doing what we humans do. Just like birds perch, I am
Standing quietly on the front porch.
Overseeing the activities of fellow human beings.
The man drawing on a smoke seated beneath a weeping tree.
The man walking his dog in his winter pajamas.
His dog’s tail wagging aggressively.
The street vendor playing his sales recording ceaselessly.
The ethnic man taking a pandering walk around the neighbourhood.
The youths moving around with the apparent burden of adulthood.
The Unpredictable Designer
Featured poem by Bonsu-Adjei Arthur © All rights reserved
He cuddles a baby to sleep
Yet researched in the Books of the Pharisees
He draws the algorithm of creation, yet his algorithm seems inverted
For geometry is authored by his hands, pinpointing him at the center
The Face of God
An Apoetsbrain Original. All rights reserved © Written 21st August 2021
We all are the very face of God.
The haughtiness in this one
The timidity in that one
The dismissiveness in this one
And the ephemeral nature of the other
These are but the face of God.
Unassuming
An original by Oluwatobilola J. Agboola. All Rights Reserved ©
Can we mend broken pieces of trust
trampled beneath the feet of deceit? Continue reading Unassuming
Forgotten Lover
An Apoetsbrain Original 2011 ©
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. Continue reading Forgotten Lover
Mainstream
Featured Poem written by Bonsu Adjei-Arthur
‘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? Continue reading Mainstream
When My Daughter Turns Five
Featured Poem written by Joan Toluwani Amos ©
When my first daughter turns five
‘Princess!’ I’ll call her Continue reading When My Daughter Turns Five
Fighting the Lonely
An Apoetsbrain Original – All Rights Reserved ©
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. Continue reading Fighting the Lonely
Unsure
An Apoetsbrain Original Written 24.11.2012
You are beautiful yet you ask
How beautiful am I?
You are strong yet you look in the mirror thinking.
Am I strong enough? Continue reading Unsure
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.
Wholly Reaffirm
A featured poem written by Darlington Kelechi Obiora. All rights reserved ©
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.
Continue reading Wholly Reaffirm
For We Are Now All Mad
By Sandra C. Obiora. Written 28.12.2013
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
The Advent
An Apoetsbrain Original 8/12/21 ©
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
Continue reading The Advent
Decades Come and Go
An Apoetsbrain Original © Written 31st December 2019
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. Continue reading Decades Come and Go
Fly
Featured Poem written by Joan Toluwani Amos ©
To the one with whom I share so many things in common Continue reading Fly
Love Isn’t Perfect
Featured Poem by Olusola Bamisile (BB). All rights reserved ©
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 Continue reading Love Isn’t Perfect
I Dream of a Maze
Poem Written by Krystal Orellano Weldon © 2020
I Dream of a Maze
I dream of a maze;
My world appears to be a mystery. Continue reading I Dream of a Maze
Words
Featured Piece written by Derek Oluwamuyiwa Fodeke-Rodgers ©
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. Continue reading Words
The Missing Game
*Note: This poem has been published with the New York Public Library Zine 2017 ©
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!
An Apoetsbrain Original Written 3/04/2020 © All rights reserved.
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.
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 ©
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. Continue reading To Squash A Star
Love is Patient
An Apoetsbrain Original © All rights reserved.
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.
I know you have trillions in your bank account.
I know you have been born into much wealth. Continue reading I Just See Another Human
Grey Skies II
Poem by Sandra Chukwudumebi Obiora. 13/10/2020 All rights reserved ©
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.
Continue reading Grey Skies II
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