What is life through the eyes of a child? Before one reaches that pivotal age and ascends into their 20's. The end of innocence. These are the eighty-one lessons of life that I have learned in my short time. The final observations before leaving the teenage years. A collection of poems exploring gender, youth, womanho...
Trapped. Surrounded on all sides by an overpowering barrier visible only to you. A barrier consisting of your thoughts, your dreams, your hopes, separating you from the rest of the world. Thoughts struggling to escape, the memories vivid in your head. You're trying to push back the flood of emotion, trying to break d...
❝We all are addicted to something that ruins us.❞ Just some powerful quotes that I found and compiled them into a book. Highest rank; #1 in Poetry (straight #1 from March 16, 2016 - April 18, 2016)
"I pray for the hungry" I said to myself as I thought about the thousands of hungry youths in Lagos at this present time of corona pandemic crises. Inspired by the on-going corona virus crises!
ELLAH SONNETS 2.0 is a compilation of 10 Unique Shakespearean Sonnets by Nigerian Storyteller, Joe Ellah.. written with precise rhyme and meter. 🌹 The project explores a variety of vivid and highly imaginative subject matters.. told from a "Black Boy" perspective. Each poem is a journey of 14 lines 3 Quatrains and...
