Success Akpojotor, born in Benin City, writes poetry, prose and theatre. A graduate of the University of Benin’s Department of History and International Studies, and an Ambassador appointed by the Fundación César Egido Serrano, Madrid, is the author of Wednesday (2013) and Sex and Lagos City (2016) . His works have been published widely online and in print in newsprint and magazines including Saraba Magazine, Kalahari Review, African Writer, The New Ink Review, The Nigerian Observer, Poets Reading The News, Heavy Feather Review, Taxicab Magazine, Wax Poetry and Art, Poetry Pulse, Afrikana, New Thoreau Quarterly, and Tuck Magazine, and has been anthologized in Lou Lit Review: The Literary Journal at Louisburg College, Snapdragon: A Journal of Art & Healing, Best New African Poets 2017 Anthology, Mounting The Moon: Queer Nigerian Poems and Home: Mostra Fotografica 2018. @sadavidia
Fraught with a warmness that feels
like actus reus and Germaness, I'm
yet to salute news from Bolton my
overlord, not even smell the ink from
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Yi yearned day and night to heal her kidney,
took a gold leap, clung to Falun Gong's book
in spite of a red hot standing firewall
which veils the fiercest form of tyranny
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Truth in one hundred and forty units
Solemnly is a cumbrous maneuver
That will rile many communist elites;
Nonetheless, candor must be uncovered.
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This sonnet is an antonym of joy:
Some fiery ball kicked by Boko Haram
Turned a fine north into a funny farm
Of disemboweled human bones like toys.
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Let's talk about our earth in fourteen lines:
If we can stoop to marry creation
And stay faithful to all her plantation
And not char any of her grown green pines;
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