RAGE
[caption id="attachment_6080" align="aligncenter" width="347"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Rage][/caption]I fear to put pen to paper I fear that I'll draw blood I fear to let this ink run I fear it will be...
GHETTO MANSHION
[caption id="attachment_6076" align="aligncenter" width="357"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Ghetto Manshion][/caption]Walking through the streets and slums Beautifully dejected Highly populated I wept! I wept for souls dwelling in Untold hardship Children poorly bred begging...
A FOR APPLE, B FOR BALL
[caption id="attachment_6073" align="aligncenter" width="322"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [A For Apple, B For Ball][/caption]Her world is more technical than a professional puzzle There, roses grow in deserts and vapours in the wind. She's...
A BUSH OF GHOSTS
[caption id="attachment_6100" align="aligncenter" width="381"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [A Bush Of Ghosts][/caption] Have you walked on your eyes In a land of thorns Beside a simplification That your instincts can't process Except through...
VIRGIN OFFERING (a review by Samuel Okopi)
There is probably no theme under heaven that has received much attention as love. To test its popularity ‘scientifically’, I googled the word. It was a shocking 5.95 billion results...
THOSE DAYS ARE GONE
[caption id="attachment_6083" align="aligncenter" width="363"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Those Days Are Gone][/caption]Those days are gone When I was your angel Proudly presented to your friends Those days are gone When with gentle kiss...
AGBAAYA
[caption id="attachment_6074" align="aligncenter" width="382"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Agbaaya][/caption]How old are you now, seventy or so? Still, you are not ashamed of that shame show Was it not your last birthday, she gave...
RAPED
[caption id="attachment_6081" align="aligncenter" width="338"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Raped][/caption]Mother said to her be clean until a wife you become for now, open your laps to no one when the time is ripe...
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Eriata Oribhabor Poetry Prize 2013
[caption id="attachment_6115" align="aligncenter" width="545"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Eriata Oribabor Poetry Prize 2013][/caption]World over, the effectiveness of literature, and indeed poetry, as an agent of change is well recognized. It is in recognition...
THE INEVITABLE
[caption id="attachment_6068" align="aligncenter" width="312"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [The Inevitable][/caption]The ultimate end the rich and poor have in common nobody desires Some through life's sojourn may merit it a commodity that must be...