CALL FOR ENTRIES: S.P.I.C INTERNATIONAL ANTHOLOGY
Speaking Pen International Concept (SPIC) is calling for submissions for its poetry anthology under the title ‘Swords of Words’. The anthology will come in four volumes: Volume One: Voice of...
OLD SOLDIER NEVER DIES
[caption id="attachment_11281" align="aligncenter" width="317"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Old Soldier Never Dies][/caption]When I hear hopeless denizens Hooting like night owls Perched on frail branches Of smooth-bark Iroko trees Begging life's support From crevices...
LAWS OF GOD & MAN
[caption id="attachment_11280" align="aligncenter" width="354"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Laws of God And Man][/caption]The stables of heaven are risen And hell plummets and sets low In its abyss lay fruits forbidden And my brother...
FIREFLIES
[caption id="attachment_11279" align="aligncenter" width="352"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Fireflies][/caption]Tiny gleams of tender loving light All about the valley of my mind Singing the symphonies to unite The cords of sweet grace and peace...
#BringBackOurGirls: THE UNHEARD VOICES OF CHIBOK GIRLS
[caption id="attachment_11268" align="aligncenter" width="326"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [The Unheard Voices Of Chibok Girls][/caption]We weep under the cloud of pain Unleashed by the merciless hands of our captors Who shall rescue us? Who...
UNTITLED
[caption id="attachment_11269" align="aligncenter" width="315"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Untitled][/caption]Beauty drops of faltering rains, Searing soar of coursing pain. Dry and boneless fops on ties, Versing parochial bilateral lies. Paradoxical picaresque personality, Rousing rift...
MAY 10
[caption id="attachment_11267" align="aligncenter" width="323"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [May 10][/caption]May I run faster than time? May I die before tomorrow comes? May I dream bigger than my pocket? May I wish that the...
LAMENTATION
[caption id="attachment_11263" align="aligncenter" width="306"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Lamentations][/caption]Who are you? Two-faced scoundrel Whom do you know That you sent to work Are you really Boko Haram? The Educational Insurgent? Or a genocidal...
NEW YAM FESTIVAL
[caption id="attachment_11260" align="aligncenter" width="320"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [New Yam Festival][/caption] O' ye town crier pick up your resonating gong and proclaim the arrival of a New Yam Festival Run to the village...
WAKE UP, SLEEPING GIANT
[caption id="attachment_11249" align="aligncenter" width="317"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Wake Up, Sleeping Giant][/caption]Oh, the giant that once shook the earth Now less than a suckling infant worth The giant at whose presence lions fled...