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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.

SeaScape III

Posted on October 25, 2014 by Ijagun Poetry Journal

My mind is an ocean where swimmers, surfers, sun worshippers cavort. Long salty hair held between their teeth. Flourishing wild flowered gowns …streams of silk waves of taffeta splashy lace. They sail through my watery face combing my eyes whispering … Continue reading →

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Our World

Posted on October 25, 2014 by Ijagun Poetry Journal

(after the sculpture by Matt Devine) Our world a ball of twine raveled in its intricate complications confounded by complexity hovers inquisitive without a sense of gravity and prays for meaning in the perturbations of its soul. Neil Ellman

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This Too

Posted on October 25, 2014 by Ijagun Poetry Journal

(after the lithograph by Mark Fox) This too shall propagate crawl swim fly weave spider webs leave tracks in mud walk upright become another after-thought without a soul alive first then stone— without an after-life except as bone. Neil Ellman

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The Cyclops

Posted on October 25, 2014 by Ijagun Poetry Journal

(after the painting by Odilon Redon) If God had a single eye better than the one we have he could see as easily as a hummingbird on unseen light-speed wings in a clover-field of destinies and if He had a … Continue reading →

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Malady

Posted on October 25, 2014 by Ijagun Poetry Journal

The corpse lied untouched In the crepuscular light, her shadow enkindled. Her kins stood panic-stricken. Her fidelity was being questioned. It was time now for the sun to set. The birds were finding their way. Migrating Also, suffering. And the … Continue reading →

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Hiatus

Posted on October 25, 2014 by Ijagun Poetry Journal

The words got scattered Like stardust The kites soared high up Reaching infinity and beyond The thoughts remained Unchanged The people remained Voracious She read the manuscripts In her dreams There was a hiatus That changed the way – Broken … Continue reading →

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Just another cryptic soul

Posted on October 25, 2014 by Ijagun Poetry Journal

She drowned in her past Because the hope of keeping up to the present killed her And the promises
which were about to Be proven false Would make people hate her And her expectations Which she considered a dream Appeared to … Continue reading →

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Xenophobic Society

Posted on October 25, 2014 by Ijagun Poetry Journal

One of many black brothers in Africa Terrorised with rattling guns and petrol bombs He fled his country, to live in exile Upon foreign land with abundant treasures Working underground in a diamond mine For the sake of his two … Continue reading →

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Inequality

Posted on October 25, 2014 by Ijagun Poetry Journal

Lonesome echoes deserted Impoverished to inequality Between the copper shanties Turbulences of squatter camps Young children, elderly folks Victimised from rural villages Eating stale bread crumbs Drinking filthy riverbank water Love does not exist here People have forsaken their own … Continue reading →

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Let Us Be Love

Posted on October 24, 2014 by Ijagun Poetry Journal

Let us awake and be still For a moment Avoid the past of agonising times Dwell in jubilations at heart Without any obstacle that unsettles us Not be paranoid or cynical Let us mingle and improvise generosity For any anguished … Continue reading →

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