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stole into my room in

a late evening read

days ago I woke to

a web completing

a triangle with

adjoined walls

and so it happens of

our lives

the surprises they come

with

the gold and grey

life has to say

Evelyn Chujo

In this collection of poems, The Anonymous Cherif is intelligent in his use of imagination and vocabulary. As is his style, he takes the reader into the depths of the profundity that is his mind.In ‘Sherifnanigans’, Cherif shows how poetry is an extension of himself – as if the pen and the words coming out of it are an extension of his limb, giving life to all that goes on in his…

It’s being a Nile while I’ve pasted my face on this space. And much as I would love to furnish the void with a NASA-Moon Landing Expedition Programme detailed explanation, I regrettably can’t. Nonetheless, I haven’t been sitting on my hands observing the hard ball game of existence but rather, holding the racket in one hand as I write, paint and create with the other.

Below is evidence of one…

“Ma binu” (don’t be angry) doesn’t do much to show remorse. Its effects even…

After Ron Padgett’s How To Be Perfect

Relax, we are all in this shit together. This shit of not having our shit together

Never be too rich to reach out. try to maintain Work-Padi balance

You can’t laugh away your sorrows but laughter can supply wheels to ease them down the cliff for siesta

while in your sleep, life would kiss you with bad breath & bloodied lips. lick it clean, get over it.

yes,…

The moonless midnight/the Wave:

takes sides with his own reflection faith the birthmark of an Agege bread yet to let go of will to handle the wheel inner eye vascularized by webs shielded from meta-realities

Rationale for Symbol:

A night is never devoid of moony attendance thus a moonless midnight suggests the presence of the moon somewhere in the vast seasky thus hinting of a splinter of light…

Title: From A Sniper’s Perspective

Author: The Anonymous Cherif

Publisher: Nullis Secundus

Year: 2017

Number of Pages: 46

ISBN: 9789789600212

Reviewer: Chidiebube onye Okohia

Boy, what a shot! Oh wait… no one is shooting here. Hollywood movies have demonstrated the word “sniper” with negative associations and associative meanings of harm and hurt but here, there is a sharp diversion. Looking at…

A day of literary Pentecost — George’s spirit, fragile as a bomb, fell ungatherably to earth & had faithfuls speaking in tongues that colored their grab on life, love, cohabitation, careerism & all shreds and shards specimen G reconstituted into.

George, a figure in the prosecution box facing a panel of judges part brimstoning, part-empathising, part-moralising & part-noncommital on the case put…

It’s hardly self-righteousness to expect less from others than you do for yourself. Do not mistake an acquaintance for a friend, a friend for a companion, an acquaintance for an aid, companion for soul sister.

Be nuanced in the interpretation of easy feelings created while being around people. Rapport doesn’t translate to or equalise (full) connectivity. It merely means for that moment, in that…