Year: <span>2012</span>

POETRY

GONE ARE THE DAYS (of the death of humanity and morality)

Words Rhymes & RhythmNovember 12, 2012July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_1730" align="aligncenter" width="300"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry[/caption] Gone are the days When children would converge at moonlight t and listen to the old man's stories Marveling in rapt attention to every word Of his...

POETRY

REMINISCENCE (for Saro Wiwa)

Words Rhymes & RhythmNovember 11, 2012July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_1720" align="aligncenter" width="203"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry[/caption] The rope dangled His lifeless-body danced The executioner laughed The heavens shut eyes! Outside, we opened hands Pleading for his life and his friends' We...

POETRY

ARE YOU A TRUE WITNESS? (a religious awakening)

Words Rhymes & RhythmNovember 11, 2012July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_1715" align="aligncenter" width="300"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry[/caption] Is it the one who wins the arguement Or the one who is theologically accurate, Much as the one who speaks the truth in love?...

POETRY

FORGIVE ME LORD (prayer of a contrite heart)

Words Rhymes & RhythmNovember 11, 2012July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_1710" align="aligncenter" width="212"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry[/caption] Forgive me Lord, for I have spoken Where the balm of silence would suffice. I have snared darkened paths for a token And my tongue...

POETRY

IT’S NOVEMBER AGAIN (a poem for Ken Saro Wiwa)

Words Rhymes & RhythmNovember 10, 2012July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_1702" align="aligncenter" width="201"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry[/caption] It's November again! Feel these winds blow, see these leaves falling, No, it's not Harmattan blowing. It’s Ken coffin calling from our coughing body frames....

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STUCK IN MUD (on a people’s plight)

Kingsley U. AyistarNovember 10, 2012September 2, 2017

[caption id="attachment_1696" align="aligncenter" width="300"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry (Stuck in The Mud)[/caption] The wind of disorder is blowing, Slowing us down! The dark clouds have eclipsed the sun, Rendering the future bleak! There...

POETRY

GOTTA GET IT RIGHT (on self rediscovery)

Words Rhymes & RhythmNovember 10, 2012July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_1692" align="aligncenter" width="261"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry[/caption] I read your slate, Signed after another mistake, And I wished the earth would quake And my beings take! Help I was trying to lend...

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FELA’S VOICE

Words Rhymes & RhythmNovember 9, 2012July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_1680" align="aligncenter" width="270"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry[/caption] Fela, When sorrows, tears and blood flows Your angered sax would flow along, Dishing out lyrics of condemnation, Though the rulers never heeded your voice!...

POETRY

I KNOW A PLACE

Words Rhymes & RhythmNovember 9, 2012July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_1673" align="aligncenter" width="259"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry[/caption] I know a place- Where Camels prance and tumble through the eye Of blunt needles and none asks how or why. But all know. They...

POETRY

BROS OBAMA (Obama victory ramblings)

Words Rhymes & RhythmNovember 8, 2012July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_1665" align="aligncenter" width="300"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry[/caption] Bros Obama, You have made us proud And our heads are high As we celebrate. Bros Obama, It has been a long walk, A path...

Year: 2012

GONE ARE THE DAYS (of the death of humanity and morality)

REMINISCENCE (for Saro Wiwa)

ARE YOU A TRUE WITNESS? (a religious awakening)

FORGIVE ME LORD (prayer of a contrite heart)

IT’S NOVEMBER AGAIN (a poem for Ken Saro Wiwa)

STUCK IN MUD (on a people’s plight)

GOTTA GET IT RIGHT (on self rediscovery)

FELA’S VOICE

I KNOW A PLACE

BROS OBAMA (Obama victory ramblings)

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