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

POETRY

PATHFINDER’S MUSE

Words Rhymes & RhythmDecember 24, 2012July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_2705" align="aligncenter" width="419"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Pathfinders Muse][/caption]Walking with my poetry packed with forms, I tread alone on this road that leads to discoveries of treasures, along the streets of dampened...

POETRY

THE APOTHEOSIS OF THE RAINDROP

Words Rhymes & RhythmDecember 24, 2012July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_2700" align="aligncenter" width="436"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [The Apotheosis Of The Raindrop][/caption]Did you leave the throne of the father? That Paradise lost by the sole dissenter; Whose foremost defiance and toss, Engendered...

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NWAKANMA CHIKA WINS ERIATA ORIBHABOR POETRY PRIZE 2012

Words Rhymes & RhythmDecember 23, 2012January 16, 2022

WINNERS Eriata Oribhabor Poetry Prize After a compilation of all the judges' selections, and based on their choices, the following have emerged winners of the Eriata Oribhabor Poetry Prize 2012....

POETRY

A PLEA FOR MY KINDRED

Words Rhymes & RhythmDecember 23, 2012July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_2675" align="aligncenter" width="404"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [A Plea For My Kindred][/caption] Tossing and turning from unsettled sleep, The dream mocked... drifting away With unnerving messages. Images linger like an ache. A...

POETRY

GRASS MUSIC

Words Rhymes & RhythmDecember 23, 2012July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_2676" align="aligncenter" width="411"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Grass Music][/caption]‘Weed them all weed away,’ The headmaster commanded. And the mean butchering And cruel murdering In my cathedral began. It may be because I’m...

POETRY

THE TOWER

Words Rhymes & RhythmDecember 23, 2012July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_2677" align="aligncenter" width="435"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [The Tower][/caption]Go to; let us build us a tower, Bring the mortar and I’ll get the hammer, Brick after brick let us invade their heaven,...

POETRY

THE SECOND CHANCE (poem by Eriata Oribhabor Poetry Prize Judge Passy Amaraegbu.)

Words Rhymes & RhythmDecember 22, 2012July 22, 2017

[caption id="attachment_2660" align="aligncenter" width="466"] The Second Chance by Passy Amaraegbu[/caption] When you reach the end of the rope When the road is bent and blocked Your sight becomes blurred At...

POETRY

RED EYED SOLDIER

Words Rhymes & RhythmDecember 22, 2012July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_2645" align="aligncenter" width="407"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [The Red Eyed Soldier][/caption]I saw a soldier by the church steps Behind the pile that now smokes. His torn tunic showed bloody biceps, His eyed...

POETRY

HOSPIPHOBIA

Words Rhymes & RhythmDecember 22, 2012July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_2643" align="aligncenter" width="350"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Hospiphopbia][/caption]I hate hospitals and all they bring Pain and trauma and no reason to sing; Their reek of blood and pungent antibiotics Tablets, syrups and...

POETRY

PRAYER REQUEST

Words Rhymes & RhythmDecember 22, 2012July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_2644" align="aligncenter" width="415"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Prayer Request][/caption]Baba God, For dis gate of tears, Na him I put my prayer request. Yet, after 5 years You still no send. My life...

Author: Words Rhymes & Rhythm

PATHFINDER’S MUSE

THE APOTHEOSIS OF THE RAINDROP

NWAKANMA CHIKA WINS ERIATA ORIBHABOR POETRY PRIZE 2012

A PLEA FOR MY KINDRED

GRASS MUSIC

THE TOWER

THE SECOND CHANCE (poem by Eriata Oribhabor Poetry Prize Judge Passy Amaraegbu.)

RED EYED SOLDIER

HOSPIPHOBIA

PRAYER REQUEST

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