LIFE AND DEATH by Michael Inioluwa Oladele
When I have traveled far into the world's deserts, When I have seen what is meant for the eye and heard what is meant for the ear, When my bones...
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ONE DAY… by Akinbode Oluwatobi Israel
I sit on this sick chair, Rolling dice upside down, Calculating disfigured figures, The answers, a sticky solution. The pin that pierced my sole, Made my hope to hop, Only...
FRIEND INDEED by Olabusayo Ajayi Hammed
I wait; like night waiter, waiting for new dawn. Then I let months swallow my plight, and await her embrace not anymore.... I sleep in a room where her portrait...
UNDERSTANDING COUPLETS
Couplets are any two lines working as a unit, whether they comprise a single stanza or are part of a larger stanza. Most couplets rhyme (A-A), but they do not...
THE FOLLY OF EVERYTHING: RISE TODAY by Kanyinsola Olorunnisola
The fire in her eyes seared my soul coal-black, Heaves of despair slouched her small, scrawny back, Engraved on her spirit was a weary lonely lack. For the first time,...
ÀWÈRÓ MI by Kolawole Samuel Adebayo
Àwèrò mi, that year, you gave me your heart and I gave you mine. It was an exchange; heart for heart; soul for soul. The day was February 13, a...
THE DESECRATORS by Olusegun M. Lawal
If the taught might be moral The rain of heart would have beautify the gold nobody knows what to anticipate Thats what they are saying till they defile the land...
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: BRIGITTE POIRSON POETRY CONTEST 2016 [MARCH]
Words Rhymes & Rhythm is receiving entries for the BRIGITTE POIRSON POETRY CONTEST (BPPC) SEASON II [2016 MARCH] on the theme: "MOTHER NATURE. Environmentalists have severally noted that the growing...
BRIGITTE POIRSON POETRY CONTEST 2016: UNIVERSITY Of IBADAN’ POET, KAYINSOLA, WINS FEBRUARY EDITION
A Philosophy student of the prestigious University of Ibadan, Kanyinsola Olorunnisola, has emerged winner of the February edition of the BRIGITTE POIRSON POETRY CONTEST (BPPC) 2016. Kanyinsola, a poet, short...
POETRY AND SIMPLICITY
[caption id="attachment_4165" align="aligncenter" width="310"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Poetry And Simplicity][/caption]What is you take on poetry and simplicity? Should poetry be simple or should high sounding words, complexities be introduced? "Some people think...