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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.

A Lonely Man

Posted on November 7, 2013 by Ijagun Poetry Journal

A lonely mind is an unruly land Where chaos does not take a bow   A lonely mind is an infertile land That falls fallow for a spruce plow   A lonely mind is a market of dodging ideas A … Continue reading →

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I have no shoes

Posted on November 7, 2013 by Ijagun Poetry Journal

That was what he told us That won our hearts And made us hail Here comes our messiah We thought he was like us He would be empathetic in our cause Because he had no shoes He gained our sympathy … Continue reading →

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perhaps he thinks he will be president in heaven

Posted on November 7, 2013 by Ijagun Poetry Journal

he bears his power on his head and shoulders with his authority he dictates the being of those beings that are living in his territory and decides where those who have died will lay their empty heads and worn-out bodies … Continue reading →

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She Has Short Legs

Posted on November 7, 2013 by Ijagun Poetry Journal

She has short legs And she has big hips She’s got a decent nose And she’s got more than eight toes She has tremendous lips And still just a single nose And I am not sure where it goes She … Continue reading →

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I Read King Lear

Posted on November 7, 2013 by Ijagun Poetry Journal

I read King Lear A hundred times or more When one say I just leered at him Then fell down on the floor David Schwartz

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Unequal Equation

Posted on November 7, 2013 by Ijagun Poetry Journal

Life is Fleeting, failing, loving In the hands of the maker Given to the hands of the holder Rushed, embraced, held like no other   On tomorrow’s plaque On yesterday’s back burner Changed, controlled, manipulated with consequence Solved with no … Continue reading →

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Laid to Rest

Posted on November 7, 2013 by Ijagun Poetry Journal

Steps to Heaven or hell   That’s the only real decision we make in life We make not life itself The blame is laid across the busy city streets The blame hangs proudly On the American flags we wave Placed … Continue reading →

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The Key

Posted on November 7, 2013 by Ijagun Poetry Journal

I am defied daily The room will not yield to me Do the storehouse not present, Present a key to turn The fulfilling knob of words? I dream a god Yet I stand not yet as one When pages demand … Continue reading →

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Sentenced to Freedom

Posted on November 6, 2013 by Ijagun Poetry Journal

Chelsea’s soul incarcerated in a prison of “Dont Ask Dont Tell” languishing in the solitary confinement of Bradley’s body locked up in uniform, unlocks strings of ones and zerosin an act of cyber mutiny, eternal freedom redeemed in a mere … Continue reading →

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Home

Posted on November 6, 2013 by Ijagun Poetry Journal

As the crow flies home these days is east of here my brother against the current of the westwind   for a while it was between the clouds and mountain tops where dreams came alive to re-ignite lost fire raise … Continue reading →

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