Month: <span>February 2014</span>

POETRY

COLOUR

Words Rhymes & RhythmFebruary 5, 2014July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_9976" align="aligncenter" width="363"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Colour][/caption]You don’t want to be dark Why should you look like coal Not yellow like ripe Pawpaw? Indeed, you are Arewa obinrin Your monthly feeding...

POETRY

HAVE STRONG MIND

Words Rhymes & RhythmFebruary 4, 2014July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_9947" align="aligncenter" width="419"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Have Strong Mind][/caption]Don’t call that social worker She is in a beauty parlour! Don’t call that familiar writer He is sitting in a bar’s corner!...

POETRY

MORTICIAN TALE

Words Rhymes & RhythmFebruary 4, 2014July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_9948" align="aligncenter" width="340"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Mortician Tale][/caption]Here in this dreary room I dress many souls to eternity... Lifeless souls kissed by death... Sparkling roses lose glamour at nightfall But the...

POETRY

THE RETIREE

Words Rhymes & RhythmFebruary 4, 2014July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_9949" align="aligncenter" width="410"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [The Retiree][/caption]My father's virility was yanked off the vein of his youth, and spread as manure on the soil of our land! From his wrinkled...

POETRY

AFRICAN LADY

Words Rhymes & RhythmFebruary 3, 2014July 22, 2017

[caption id="attachment_9940" align="aligncenter" width="422"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [African Woman][/caption] Beauty in dark complexion Her dark skin shines even at night... African lady So mild when she appears in African attire Naturally pretty...

POETRY

WERE I …

Words Rhymes & RhythmFebruary 3, 2014July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_9936" align="aligncenter" width="392"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Were I...][/caption]Were I from Igbira land, I would have named my daughter Ohunene, If I had walked the land of the rising sun, Her name...

POETRY

OMOTUGHELE

Words Rhymes & RhythmFebruary 3, 2014July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_9932" align="aligncenter" width="365"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Omotughele][/caption]Sango and I dipped starch in Oghwevwri The night they sang of Omotughele's beauty On that day, my Ugboma parted with Erhi Ovigueraye! Finding 'Motughele...

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Eriata Oribhabor Poetry Prize 2014

Words Rhymes & RhythmFebruary 2, 2014August 3, 2020

[caption id="attachment_444" align="aligncenter" width="428"] www.facebook.com/AuthorPedia [Eriata Oribhabor Poetry Prize 2014][/caption]Poetry as an agent of change is well recognized the world over. In recognition of this, the ‘Eriata Oribabhor Poetry Prize’...

POETRY

WAR OF EMOTION

Words Rhymes & RhythmFebruary 2, 2014July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_9898" align="aligncenter" width="374"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [War Of Emotion][/caption] She… Was innocent Untapped her bosom was So inviting that he craved for her innocence Lust for what lies beneath the oversize...

POETRY

LET’S TALK ABOUT LOVE!

Words Rhymes & RhythmFebruary 2, 2014July 22, 2017

[caption id="attachment_9895" align="aligncenter" width="392"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Let's Talk About Love][/caption]Let's talk about Love! Not the roadside love between a guy and the babe with pretty round curves That ends up in...

Month: February 2014

COLOUR

HAVE STRONG MIND

MORTICIAN TALE

THE RETIREE

AFRICAN LADY

WERE I …

OMOTUGHELE

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Eriata Oribhabor Poetry Prize 2014

WAR OF EMOTION

LET’S TALK ABOUT LOVE!

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