Author: <span>Words Rhymes & Rhythm</span>

POETRY

LET ME BE YOUR CINDERELLA

Words Rhymes & RhythmOctober 11, 2013July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_8119" align="aligncenter" width="289"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Let Me Be Your Cinderella][/caption]I twist my waist all the time Thinking you will be attracted by it I made my voice tiny like a...

POETRY

AN UNTITLED POEM

Words Rhymes & RhythmOctober 11, 2013July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_8118" align="aligncenter" width="410"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [An Untitled Poem][/caption] With arms stretched to the sky And eyes fixed on the window of heaven I gaze cold heartedly upon the journey of...

POETRY

OH, HOW I LOVE YOU MUMMY

Words Rhymes & RhythmOctober 10, 2013July 22, 2017

[caption id="attachment_8110" align="aligncenter" width="386"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Oh, How I Love You Mummy][/caption]Oh! How I love you mummy My dearest chummy My love for you makes me go rummy Like a nice...

POETRY

GOD, HELP US!

Words Rhymes & RhythmOctober 10, 2013July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_8042" align="aligncenter" width="386"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [God Help Us!][/caption]Men have become beasts Angry tongue, swinging fists Wasteful, drunken, anger led Foolish, godless, penis led Father seeds daughter's womb Groom puts wife...

POETRY

I WILL STRIKE

Words Rhymes & RhythmOctober 9, 2013July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_8051" align="aligncenter" width="372"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [I Will Strike!][/caption]I will strike If you want to, strike! Across the Ocean There my offsprings learn With King Henry; a British heir Here where...

POETRY

I AM NIGERIA

Words Rhymes & RhythmOctober 9, 2013July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_8050" align="aligncenter" width="412"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [I Am Nigeria][/caption]I am Nigeria I am that brackish water that erodes the delta I am Nigeria I am that green and white flag that...

POETRY

CELEBRATION OF VANITY

Words Rhymes & RhythmOctober 9, 2013July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_8049" align="aligncenter" width="460"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Celebration Of Vanity][/caption]Our mouths we desire to open wide In naked reflection of this day; Our hearts we long to bare, with nought to hide...

POETRY

THE LAND CRIES

Words Rhymes & RhythmOctober 8, 2013July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_8048" align="aligncenter" width="358"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [The Land Cries][/caption]Our land is a peasant woman coming home from the fields with a bundle on her head. Home? Where angry vultures wheel over...

POETRY

LET ME SPEAK MY SCARS

Words Rhymes & RhythmOctober 8, 2013July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_8045" align="aligncenter" width="357"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Let Me Speak My Scars][/caption]Dirty hands that kill but never get punished, Hot seats that keep us fighting like dogs over a bone They dine...

POETRY

I KNOW

Words Rhymes & RhythmOctober 8, 2013July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_8044" align="aligncenter" width="353"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [I Know][/caption]I know of a slave Who dances and sings freedom Out the cage of slavery But is still sucking the breast Of her colonial...

Author: Words Rhymes & Rhythm

LET ME BE YOUR CINDERELLA

AN UNTITLED POEM

OH, HOW I LOVE YOU MUMMY

GOD, HELP US!

I WILL STRIKE

I AM NIGERIA

CELEBRATION OF VANITY

THE LAND CRIES

LET ME SPEAK MY SCARS

I KNOW

CỌ́N-SCÌÒ MAGAZINE: ‘BREATHE’ [ISSUE 5, VOL. 1 | JUN, 2025]

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