Poetry

"... a responsibility that isn't mine..."

"...It all seems kind of grim..."

"...A window into heaven is opened only by death..."

Collaborative Tan-renga

"...In a bout of boyish zeal, I bought you a book..."

"...take up riding bulls skydiving..."

"...trundling train tracks flimsy girders, river bridge..."

"...what he deems best for others in the city ..."

"...found clutched-up in the gnarled roots..."

"...everything in life is just as beautiful..."

"...young dreamers who dared transcend time with art..."

"...His spirit is rising, truly awake..."

"...where the light shines most bright..."

"...Your polish is peaceful. Steady, you stand at life’s crossroads...."

Collaborative poetry

Daniel Aôndona [The Rhapsodist] is a lover of arts and culture, an award-winning writer of Tiv ancestry who hails from Konshisha, Benue State, Nigeria. He is a member of Hilltop Creative Arts Foundation, and the Editor-in-chief at Words-Empire Magazine.

"...at least I think it’s dead..."

"...to tease the coming new wave age with synthesis..."

"...do your false portrayals not seem real?..."

Memories in haiku

"...our lives had become a novel..."

"...Walking the battlefield of Gettysburg..."

"...Please let there be light at the end of that tired tunnel..."

"...Pull the stars down..."

"...writing his heart out..."

"... imagined fears of harm..."

"...a lighthouse somewhere in the foggy distance..."

"...Who creates such woe? ..."

"...I held my breath for a century..."

"...we kept the tank engines running all night long..."