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Selfish nonchalant Like a fly Landing on a well garnished meal What a waste!   — This Poem was published in the February 2024 edition of the WSA magazine. Please click here to [...]

I sensed its demise from the outset, As I peered into his profound brown eyes, A shade unfamiliar, captivating my thoughts, An unreal hue, blending beauty and charm, Yet, twinkling with a subtle [...]

It is lovely that we kiss It is just this kiss that I hate. From the kiss_ the lips, the tongue_ The grip, the cuddle, the mingle. After tonight, this kiss will be pain.   — This Poem [...]

An open book read only With a sense of touch And more of logic. My eyes were lured But had no capacity To comprehend the style Of his writer’s writing. He whispered softly With a warm breeze at [...]

In love’s sweet haze, my vision is impaired, I see through lenses tinted with desire. I’m lost in a world that’s falsely fair, A tangled web spun by love’s gentle fire. Beneath the moon’s shadow, [...]

The pathetic excuse for a man my lovesick mother married He has engraved a lewd semblance of himself on my essence An obscene figure etched upon my very soul in crude detail The vile leering [...]

In the tapestry of dreams, Where illusions unfold. Love and its mysteries untold A dance with shadows A tale of dreaming reality. Eyes closed yet hearts wide awake, In love’s embrace, a blindfold [...]

I dance in the shadows, oblivious to the distinctions that reason imposes. | Like a blindfolded wanderer, I navigate the labyrinth of souls, guided solely by the echoes of shared laughter and [...]

Yesterday I heard the teacup’s banter Violating the dawn with a slow violence Love is not enough and soon you’ll learn. It reaches only as far as patience goes, And closeness does not mean [...]

      This interview is By Nyasili Atetwe —   Who is Liza Chuma Akunyili? What’s the one thing nobody knows about you? Liza is a girl (that’s my favourite definition in [...]