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Submit your Poetry to the Festival. Three Options: 1) To post. 2) To have performed by an actor 3) To be made into a film.

The Three Most Underrated Tips for Effective Blogging — The Art of Blogging

There’s usually a right way and a wrong way to do something. That’s just in case you want to keep it simple, because there’s a wrong way, slightly less wrong, slightly better, and so on… Some ways lead nowhere at all. They only exist in order to provoke anger. The truth is that if you […]

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7 Writing Hacks to Add Some Spice to Your Blog Posts — The Art of Blogging

If you’re reading this article, you’re probably a bit frustrated with the way your blog is performing right now. Maybe it’s a lack of feedback, maybe it’s the quality of your content that disappoints you. Well, lucky you, I’ve compiled a short list of things you can do to spice your blog posts. Every tip […]

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No, You Don’t Have to Post Every Day to Be a Successful Blogger — The Art of Blogging

We’ve all heard it before: being prolific is the best way to become successful as a blogger. It’s all about posting a lot of content as often as possible. But is it? Maybe you feel as if churning out one post after another is taking the joy out of writing. If so, I have some […]

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The 7 Habits of Highly Ineffective Bloggers — The Art of Blogging

To read the 7 Habits of Highly Effective Bloggers click here. Ever wondered how we learn a new skill? For instance, how does a baby learn to walk? Do they do it perfectly from the first try? Of course not. They fail. Over and over again. Learning, you see, is not about getting things right, […]

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Overnight Success Does Not Exist (And What Success Actually Looks Like) — The Art of Blogging

Here’s how most people think this blogging thing works: you create a blog, write a few articles, and boom!, one of those posts goes viral. And that’s it! Do you know what happens to this vast majority of bloggers? They blog, on and off, for a few months, while they complain about the lack of […]

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5 Tips to Improve Your Online Writing Instantly — The Art of Blogging

If you’re honest with yourself, you want to produce the kind of content that makes people feel. You want to write with passion about experiences and ideas and dreams and hopes. You want to help your readers, inspire them, or entertain them. But the issue is that there are certain rules when it comes to […]

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Read Poem: Coronavirus outbreak, by Emenike Anayo Anderson

Emergency! Emergency! Emergency!
the media says stay alert, don’t panic
but Wuhan is in heartbreak
across the ocean in tremble of the outbreak
panic beats in the travellers heart
the earth has swallowed a lot, for how long?

Am going through the analytic
the report says it is spreading
my body shakes like a leaf
in fright of Tom Frieden words “Pandemic”
don’t blame nothing of me
my world imports everything except pure water

How many will be lost before you are gone
you are traced back to your source
be gone, sure you will be gone
but wuhan shall never forget COVID-19

Alert! in response to preparedness
shuttered, you have shuttered wuhan
live animal in wet market mixed with wildlife
in close contact spill over and jump

I am afraid if you spread more than measures
the consequence will hit hard on me
the cities are in a state of depression
countries are disturbed characterised by
experiencing watchful

Emenike Anayo Anderson.

Read Poem: Goodness Is A Curse, by Sheenam Eliza Kujur

If only i had, not even one bad habit,
I could have claimed my life as legit;
As i mention, keep its track,
In no way is it a personal attack.

Hurt me once, twice or thrice,
I will not transform into an ice;
I would rather offer you forgiveness,
Even after, you repeatedly create a mess.

I will love you more than you deserve,
Blissfully adoring your facial curve;
When you hurt me, tears well up in my eyes,
Then i feel like, it was a useless sacrifice.

There is this one thing, i just can’t do,
The act of pretending and ignoring too;
Initially i might dislike you for hurting me,
Disturbed by your act, i shall never be.

Everytime, being nice to others,
Is when goodness feels like a curse;
You will be taken for granted,
That is when, quite a few people are enchanted.

-Sheenam Eliza Kujur