Ifeanyi looked for my trouble with this poem. A Different Kind of Hunger shot something into my veins that blurred the world around me; like I couldn’t see very clearly but the bits I saw, I caught with alarming clarity. This poem awakened a different kind of hunger in me, and I can’t wait to […]
Last week, Keren stole our breaths away, literally, with that masterpiece titled ‘My First Kiss’. Yo, I relived my first kiss as I read those lines, and when the reel finished, I moved on to relive my best kiss ever. And what better way to spend your Thursday morning than a stroll through kiss-ville in […]
Cece reviews Strong, a poem written by Wolfe. Strong is the kind of poem I would write when upset or depressed. The fiction is simple, and that is where it all ends. This poem has the ability to evoke the appropriate emotions. But the problem here is, it leaves the reader high and dry, leaves me […]
This poem is a story, a story about love. It’s a lesson too, a lesson about how relationships work. There are such blithe aphorisms like ‘the power of love’ and ‘love rules’, which gives most people a false sense of security in their expressions of love. Falling in love is easy, but staying in love […]
First words I uttered were OMG!! This poem ‘Not Again’ is tighter than the anus of a tortoise. As I read it was already obvious the author took out time to settle down and pen this. It is poignant and rouses empathy, anger and disdain. There was an error in the spelling of WRITER […]
This is a beautiful poem in its simplicity. No grand convoluted words, not a lot of flowery terms, not like there’s anything wrong with those. In my opinion, the beauty and comprehension of poetry is not robbed by its lexicon, but by its composition. When I saw the title and saw who the writer is, […]
