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About Ijagun Poetry Journal

Ijagun Poetry Journal is a quarterly journal that provides a platform from which we can tell our own stories in the authenticity of their multiplicity through the poetic medium. We don’t want to hear these stories from our master “griots” alone; we want to hear from those mastering their art, too. Hence, we aim at publishing new and emerging poets. We also welcome the works of established poets in order to encourage the poetic genius of those mastering poetic art. We prize original works that conform to, break or reinvent conventions. Again, we accept reviews and critical essays on poetry. We also accept powerful art works and photographs that make us appreciate the "poetry" in everything.

I Do Like Italian Food

Posted on May 2, 2014 by Ijagun Poetry Journal

I do like Italian food And I sure like the women So please cease laughing at Me when I go swimming I like their eyes I like their lips so cute And I do love them in Their lovely bathing suit … Continue reading →

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I Married Her Smile

Posted on May 2, 2014 by Ijagun Poetry Journal

I married her because of her smile It was stretched real long And I did truly believe that We’d be singing a song not too long But it seems to me that Smiles never last that long And the same … Continue reading →

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Do Not Stick Your Tongue Out

Posted on May 2, 2014 by Ijagun Poetry Journal

Do not stick your tongue out When you’re walking round It would be so painful When you go falling down And if you’re eating With a chew chew chew Sticking your tongue out is Something not to do. So listen … Continue reading →

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Myths of Sand

Posted on May 2, 2014 by Ijagun Poetry Journal

Years have fallen in disuse after dark winds of October Forget to chill My hands grew pale, adhering to the rules named season Who shall now believe the alphabets of moon? Shining dumb in my ancient bed for so many … Continue reading →

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Why?

Posted on May 2, 2014 by Ijagun Poetry Journal

My brother winked at me from his beloved newly bought Jaguar “Wanna go somewhere in summer vacation?” I felt a little dumb at his query Vacation needs some vacant you, some vacant me And you can put some you in … Continue reading →

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Only If One Knows

Posted on May 2, 2014 by Ijagun Poetry Journal

The doctors hate me Though I become quite a frequenter At their mad-cap nursery Where this ancient sages Sit at their shrine, lures, gazes, fumes. They clarify the naughty children of earth The knowledge of all riddles That they seem … Continue reading →

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Aggression

Posted on May 2, 2014 by Ijagun Poetry Journal

Have your quit notice Lest for sacrilege I’m jailed What nature are you, exoskeleton nouns That always to see is to kiss To smile and embrace brothers Numberless times per day? Neither red nor crimson in texture Your limbs are … Continue reading →

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Lord of Harvest

Posted on May 2, 2014 by Ijagun Poetry Journal

When I trod round these long green hairs They neither hid nor exposed your things for jam Cutlass and hoe are fame of old Submit me my file to a dairy home The blistered ball-breasts swing to meet the sky … Continue reading →

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Coin

Posted on May 2, 2014 by Ijagun Poetry Journal

One soul slept A nation in my eyes wept And gazed like a rooster to see the fourth day spout One soul died A nation in my mouth praised the lord And committed the seventh night unto God’s hand Gbenga … Continue reading →

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Entity

Posted on May 2, 2014 by Ijagun Poetry Journal

I explore the souls of clouds delve into anti-cyclones and other spinning things. There is immense ocean chewing even triremes befuddling air rescue searches there are escalating gales apparitions of drowned seamen, their bobbing seaboots to consider. I made the … Continue reading →

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