Nigerian poet – Cajun Mutt Press

Cajun Mutt Press Featured Writer 01/29/24

January 29, 2024 James D. Casey IV

we stare at each other with barely concealed hate

Across the table
We stare at each other
Panting very heavily
With, barely concealed hate

The brawl was bad this time
Bloody even…I can still feel the heady rush of ebbing adrenaline
And the blood stains on our bodies and on the floor

I watch you try to rise to pick up where we left off
Same, as i
But the spirit is willing
Yet, the body is weak

Solape Adetutu Adeyemi is a dedicated professional with a Bachelor’s degree in Microbiology and a Master’s in Environmental Management. She is a passionate environmental sustainability enthusiast and a talented creative writer, with her works published in esteemed journals and magazines, including Writenow Literary Journal, TV Metro, Poetry Marathon Anthology, and The Guardian newspaper, among others.

With over a decade of experience, Solape has excelled in various roles within the Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) industry. Her commitment to environmental causes aligns with her belief that everyone can contribute to saving our planet.

Beyond her professional life, Solape enjoys watching action movies and immersing herself in whale documentaries. Her diverse interests reflect her curiosity about the world and her commitment to learning.

Currently, Solape serves as the Secretary of the Association of Nigerian Authors in Lagos, Nigeria, where she continues to contribute to the literary and cultural landscape of her community. Her dedication to both her professional career and her advocacy for environmental sustainability demonstrates her multifaceted talents and unwavering commitment to making a positive impact in the world.

Cajun Mutt Press Featured Writer 10/18/23

October 18, 2023 James D. Casey IV

THE SABER-TOOTHED TIGER

Two brethren of canine teeth,
Each about seven inches long
Whittled like a fencing sword,
Tricking to gag my eloquence.

The roof of my only pool room
Fluttered by the flurry of phobia,
Dragging my ass to cross swords,
Making the meat-eater’s teeth titter.

The rainmakers in my eyes pumped
The dark sea and another monster,
A sea serpent in the body of water
Came out vomiting fire on my head.

The Saber-toothed Tiger made a
Sound in stitches rolling down to
The aisle of my only pool room,
And I saw my breath gone away.

In the abyss of underworld, I found
Myself in a foundation garment,
Engineering a zaftig ziggurat, then
A white kaftan skied in and puffed the
Hose of breath repulsed to my body.

Ikechukwu Obiorah is the author of the novel The Black Python Empire, a Nigerian award-winning poet, and a novelist included in the Who is Who of Emerging Writers Book Worldwide 2020/2021, and his first novel The Black Python Empire included in The Book of Books by Sweetycat Press. His poems have been published in Poetica 2019 and Poetica 2020, by Clarendon House Publications, Spillwords Press, Ponders Series, Breaking Rules Publishing, Alpha One Linden Books by Clarendon House Publications, Better Than Starbucks, Cajun Mutt Press, Active Muse Journal, Sage Cigarettes Magazine, McMaster University Press (The Muse), Re:locations – Journal of the Asia-Pacific World, University of Toronto, PCC INSCAPE, 45 Magazine Women’s Literary Journal, Bradlaugh Fingers, Ero Gospel Magazine, and others. His debut book of poetry Darkness In Crocodileville is also available on Amazon.

Cajun Mutt Press Featured Writer 03/15/23

March 15, 2023 James D. Casey IV

7 POEMS by UCHECHUKWU ONYEDIKAM

dark night, raw & haunting
terror wind sweeping
a lover’s abode —
spring cleaning
a night ago

memory sinks her teeth
deeply into the thought
of wild imaginings
making monster
of fairies in my sleep

midnight prayers
evil eyes lurking in the dark
feeding my fears with blood
dragging me to an unholy saviour —
corrupted my salvation

bleeding red moon
vampires out to feast
at my body laying —
fully dead, half living
upon the altar of darkness

a dark shadow drifts
upon my lover’s eyes
her shaky voice shrinks
falls deeply down her throat
gasping for air

empty skeleton
sucking on cancer stick
prisoner to her dark shadow
chasing the leftover
of each sour breath

beware of her breast
a twin tower hoarding
unseen horror —
the lure of men
to kiss death’s holy place

UCHECHUKWU ONYEDIKAM is a Nigerian creative artist based in Lagos, Nigeria. He’s appeared in Amsterdam Quarterly; Brittle Paper, Poetic Africa, Hood Communists; and, print anthologies. He’s in a book collaboration series (tan-renga) with a Malaysian Poet, titled Pouring Light on the Hills.

Cajun Mutt Press Featured Writer 12/28/22

December 28, 2022 James D. Casey IV

WOUNDS.

the BLU-82 blasted & our flower wept to ashes
like a goddamned street. one of Hurty’s eyes
caprioled into a water-tank as if his god was at
the gym. at home, mother pats my back too
much that my bones could reject straight bullets.
it’s cold outside, bags carry corpses than luggage.
besides, who could play jazz on a field where fire
antagonizes themselves— where the sky is red enough to
suck the blood left in the ass of a black boy?
today is a testimony— i still carry my breath around, bruised and battered.

Fatihah Quadri Eniola is a Nigerian poet, creative writer, and lover of cinematography.
She is a member of HCAF (Hilltop creative arts foundation), Nibstears Poetry Cave, B.G.T( Black girl’s tales) and a pressman at Al Faheedah Press. Her work has appeared in Kalahari Review, Beatnik Cowboy, World Voices magazine, Notion press, De Curated, Syncronized Chaos and elsewhere.

Cajun Mutt Press Featured Writer 06/24/20

June 24, 2020June 24, 2020 James D. Casey IV

The Rain at Gambian Bridge

I have come to behold you
and sing of your dazzling waterness

just at the point of the meeting
of the Gambian and Atlantic
the watery ripples slowly,
luxuriously, embracing each other
and the refreshing coolness of night
and we the witnesses place our presences

the gathering cloud of storms
stormclouds and calls for rain
around the sun’s grilling heat
as we the witnesses watch for a porch

quick as an eyewink
flashes everywhere as
suspended twinkling of angry stars
then water poured on waters
breaking in nature’s rhythm
with a slow sudden shock serene
as we speak

and we the witnesses take
the pleasure of the coconut trees
for shelter.

Obinna Chilekezi is a Nigerian poet and insurance practitioner whose poems have been published in journals and anthologies. He has three published collections which are: Son Chikeziri too died, rejection and other poems, and Songs of a Stranger in the Smiling Coast. One of his insurance texts won the 2016 African Insurance Organisation Book Award. He can be reached at ugobichi@yahoo.com or obinnachilekezi1@gmail.com.