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WELCOME TO sentinel nigeria | Issue #1 | February 2010

 

Poetry

 

Unwana Umana


City of December


Bad rhymes unequal words
Breaths unequal winds
Streets unequal cities

Seasoned certainty of happenings
Greatest moments drown in love
Weather rises, expectant hearts awaken
Religion systematizes states of mind

Ground sits strong
Animals silence into cloudlessness
Coast to coast anywhere becomes destination

Wants enchant movements
Poverty dreams windows
Happiness holds unto tales
Giving hands reap fulfilment
Glory freeways

Days without suns
Nights without moons
Lost winds in pines
Old flowers fade forgotten
Some mourn where evenings fall
Some bathe where rainbows rest

What unequal’s December?
Change ignores where rituals roam blind
 


Healer

Some hope for change
But get betrayed by life

Snatched
Deeds bunker innocence
Threats arrest spirit
Faith drips tears
Walls shut out worlds

Forced on slaved bed
She is sailed in chorused pains
Redemption masked on virginity

Horrified
Experiences burn deeper
Consistency unleashes nightmares
Tears drip pity
Wishing storms move heavens

Shameful uncivilized sex myths
Fools ruin the healer
 

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Contributors
Abdulaziz Abdulaziz
Ahmed Farah
Amechi Obumse
Auwal S. Muktar
Binta Shuaibu
Chinelo Onwualu
Chioma Iwunze
Chioma Iwunze (2)
Dami Ajayi
Dami Ajayi (2)
D M D Goodhead
Emmanuel Iduma
Emmanuella Nduonofit
Gbubemi Amas
Gimba Kakanda
Henry Onyeama
Ifesinachi Okoli
Ify Omalicha
Isa Muhammad Inuwa
Jerome Dooga
Jingii
Kola Tubosun
Kola Tubosun (2)
Numero Unoma
Nwilo Bura-Bari V
Richard Ugbede Ali
Sifa Gowon
Tade Ipadeola
Temitayo Olofinlua
Temitayo Olofinlua (2)
Uche Peter Umez
Unwana Umana

Unwana Umana is a nonviolence activist and trainer, certified by the Kingian Nonviolence Center, University of Rhode Island, United States of America. He writes poetry, short stories and screenplays.
As an entertainment entrepreneur, he directs his work towards contemporary causes through movies, music and events.

 

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