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Hi fam, I'm new here and I just uploaded my book "Osupa Dudu (black moon) for review, will appreciate ur thoughts on it thanks 🙂

Hello I just uploaded my book “the silent” It’s more of a rough work buh I hope y’all will like it and give me a review☺️

First Aid kit: What to have + How to use it

📚 WELCOME TO THE NADBOOKS WRITERS’ COMMUNITY!

Hello, writers! We are delighted to welcome you to NadBooks—a digital publishing and reading platform created to help African writers publis

Sunday morning poemspiration

May it be an evening star, one of the three brightest that comprises the Orion's belt, light your way. When the night is overcome, you may r

Of Pride And It's Undoing

Pride—the final boss of the 7 deadly sins. If you're able to see how proud you are! You're so close to Sainthood and this last line is crazy

OF A NIGHT TURNED DARK

The stars came out to play On a night some years ago. This night would not stay The night's beauty could be seen Even though words spoke And

THE SHIELDS THAT GUARDED THE REALMS OF ALAIGBO

You were the swords in the dark. The shields that guarded the realms of men. As shiny as any Knight would be For you were as dark as night!

OF A SOUL

She who was beauty herself. In the shades, as in the colours of Joseph's cloak. As in the elegance of the peacock. A beauty written like con

A LOVE LETTER TO THE WRETCHED TWO

Love immensed in a tale of two cities. One held down by a curse, the other by family. The matrix in-between suffers the unwitting connection

SWEETEST GIRL

Cuts and bruises, you could see In her eyes, like blood painted windows Suppressed tears, recurring time and time again She used to be the s

Of A Daffodil

You're the epitome of pulchritude Beauty itself be damned If it's not described by you You're a whorl of a billion scented flowers Of a muse

JULIAN'S HEART

A cry was heard from Julian's Heart The chamber where he resides King Julian in tears Julian would not be consoled Julian's Heart looked dif

A FALL'S POEM: TO FALL OR FOR WHOM

Neither fall nor stand Either shadow or figure Either light or shade But Will standest firm Fierceness stills thy resolve Grace and mercy ar

Dual Duel

Of the battle unseen The ones whispered in tears Like years of darkness The clash of temperaments Fire and Ice Of one good And the nether on

Oh Capernaum, hear me

Contrition you say But attrition at best Going around in circles With no firm purpose of amendment. Sorry you say But you're still going to

Green light; Red light

Borrow borrow Lapo Chase me Up and down Borrow borrow app insult me tire Then, just then One werey came He came bearing gifts Some Naira and

Shadows Show

Before shimmering darkness Light assumes a form On the same plane The ones made of mortal engines Like ricocheted bullets The form of sadnes

Of A Daffodil

And by the grace of one I found grace for all Like a fire bellowing Like magma underneath She's fire of the colours pure Of the stainless fi

Love

A thousand drill bits On one mission To break the very thing The very thing you survive on It calls it sacrifice It ties you down Hands and

Femme Fatale

Like broken bones Of the kind— innocuous She rises Reassembles herself From the ashes Like the phoenix Broken, beaten, mutilated Of the crea

Cerebral handshake

Love that transcendeth flesh. Of a fiery source Of one, so insane, the sanity scale breaks In love that thinks not of thyself Lost in the se

31 Rules On Women

There are many rules to play this game of dating. Those who choose not to play will always come back looking for this article. I dare and do

LOVE: THE 51% ATTACK

Love and sex are mirror images. Apparently, love is sex and sex is love. Stay with me. Love is mental sex. And sex is the physical manifesta

Love— A higher calling from thyself

At some point, you'd have do away money and just and feel. You'll have to leave your sense at the door and just live. You'd have to get call

I woke up this morning with one goal and one goal only: to buy bread. By 9:20am, I had fought a guinea pig, gave a speech at a wedding I had no idea who the couples were and I punched a homeless man in the face who insis

A LOVE LETTER FROM DEATH Dear Beloved. You would not know this but I have been around before the creation of that metaphysical dimwit that calls himself Time. Pardon my language, I didn't mean to be so sardonic. I have s

✍️ ЁĊḦÖЁṠ ÖḞ ṠÖṚṚÖẄ: 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚑𝚞𝚗𝚐𝚎𝚛, 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚛𝚜𝚝 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚗𝚜𝚎 𝚜𝚘𝚛𝚛𝚘𝚠 𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚠𝚑𝚎𝚕𝚖 𝚖𝚢 𝚜𝚘𝚞𝚕. 𝙸 𝚕𝚘𝚘𝚔 𝚋𝚎𝚢𝚘𝚗𝚍 𝚖𝚢 𝚕𝚒𝚏𝚎 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚝𝚎𝚕𝚕 𝚖𝚢𝚜𝚎𝚕𝚏 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚒𝚜 𝚊 𝚜

Read The Ghost Point: Book One by Anthony Okosa on Nadbooks. This book explores what happens when a character in an author's book makes it out to real life and seeks answers for the cruel stories the author put him throu

Read Eutopia: City of Dreams by Anthony Okosa on Nadbooks. White people discover a new planet that's 100% like Earth. They 'purify' of all alien life and then moved out of Earth. Black people were not allowed on the spac