NIGERIAN STUDENTS POETRY PRIZE

Nigerian Students Poetry Prize

An initiative of 

Poets in Nigeria (PIN)

Supported by 

Association of faculty of Art students, University of Ibadan

PRIZES

First prize: 100,000.00

Second prize: 50,000.00

Third prize: 30,000.00

Submission guidelines 

*Only undergraduate students of Nigerian tertiary institutions are eligible to enter for the contest.

*There are no fixed theme for the contest. Participants are allowed to freely explore themes relevant to contemporary times.

*All entrant are entitled to a single entry of limitless word count.

*Submission should be accompanied by biography, comprising full name, level, department and Faculty. 

*Name of tertiary institution should also be distinctively mentioned alongside contact details (email address and phone number)

*All submissions should be forwarded to nspp2016@gmail.com

*Submission deadline: 15th March 2016.

All entrants should subscribe to

www.poetsinnigeria.org.ng

What if? A poem by Osigwe Benjamin

WHAT IF?

What if I left

In the middle of a sucking night

And leave no foot prints

To be retraced?

Will my crafted pictures

Still be in your heart?

What If doors after doors

Are shut at my face

And at every turn

A hand waves (farewell)

Will I be that same man

You promised a part of your heart?

What If I got lost

In the battle field

Of forgotten memories

Where men embrace the unseen

And their souls are kissed by flying bullets

Will you wish to own me back again?

What if am an illusion

But, well illustrated in your mind

Will you wish

To be forever drowned in illusion?

Or what if

I bake you sweet words

From the depth of an insane mind

Will you wish for more words of mine?

But what if the world decides

To feast on my skull

Will you freely will me to them?

And what if these questions

Are all rhetorics?

Will you want them answered

So you can be forever planted

In my heart?

Osigwe Benjamin

2016

  

Osigwe Benjamin is one of the youngest Poetry Promoters in Nigeria. He is a written and performance poet. He was featured in the 16th
LAGOS BOOK AND ART FESTIVAL "LABAF" 2014, GreatPath media concert, Freedom Spoke Words, Be Blessed, and Fist (Feast) Of Words, and many other notable poetry events in Nigeria.

Some of his poems were featured
in BLACK COMMUNION POETRY ANTHOLOGY, and he was also on the EGC TOP 50Poets who rocked Nigeria in 2015.

Benjamin is the manager of "The Poetry Court" (thepoetrycourt.blogspot.com).
An online community of writers. A platform to support and promote written, spoken and performance poetry across the world.

Benjamin is also a poet who believes in poetry
for consciousness and social change, and thus advocate that poetry should move, speak and take actions through the pen.