Words Rhymes & Rhythm

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: BRIGITTE POIRSON POETRY CONTEST 2017 [JULY] ‘THE FORBIDDEN FRUIT’

Words Rhymes & RhythmJuly 18, 2017August 3, 2020

Words Rhymes & Rhythm (WRR) is now receiving entries for the BRIGITTE POIRSON POETRY CONTEST (BPPC) SEASON III, 2017 (July edition). Poets from Nigeria, Africa and all over the world...

NEWS

BRIGITTE POIRSON POETRY CONTEST 2017: BENIN’S OSAHON WINS BPPC JUNE

Words Rhymes & RhythmJuly 18, 2017November 5, 2017

Oka Benard Osahon is the winner of the June 2017 edition of the monthly Words Rhymes & Rhythm backed BRIGITTE POIRSON POETRY CONTEST (BPPC). Themed ‘AS THE MUSE LEADS’, the...

STAR WRITERS

POET OF THE WEEK: SHADE MARY-ANN OLAOYE

Words Rhymes & RhythmJuly 18, 2017August 12, 2017

One of Nigeria's fastest growing female poets, Shade Mary-Ann Olaoye, is this weeks Poet of The Week (#POTW). In her young career, Shade has been featured in the University of...

POETRY

LET’S MAKE A CHAPEL by Yugo Gabriel Egboluche

Yugo Gabriel EgbolucheJuly 16, 2017September 10, 2017

I won’t make a party out of loving you – protest to social lot, so I don’t get drunk - drunk on love, in the highs of now, to query...

THE WORLD IS A NUMBER by El Sane Ken Silencer

El Sane Ken SilencerJune 19, 2017August 3, 2020

The world is a number to me, I see nothing in the ground except sand, when i look up, I see only the cloud- The sky... When the young die...

POETRY

FOOLISH ME! by Dominic Ayegba Okoliko

Dominic Ayegba OkolikoJune 15, 2017September 10, 2017

I toil night and day leaving no room for rest; For I thought to myself, ‘Rest is for those whom idleness have impressed’. So I turned an owl at night...

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: BRIGITTE POIRSON POETRY CONTEST 2017 [JUNE] – ‘AS THE MUSE LEADS’

Words Rhymes & RhythmJune 13, 2017August 3, 2020

Entries are now being received for the June edition of the Words Rhymes & Rhythm (WRR) BRIGITTE POIRSON POETRY CONTEST (BPPC) SEASON III, 2017. In this month’s edition, there will...

WRITING TIPS

GOOD POETRY, AN ANALYSIS OF ‘REFUGEES’, BY MICHAEL INIOLUWA OLADELE

Kukogho Iruesiri SamsonJune 11, 2017August 3, 2020

Poetry gets me excited and ‘good poetry’ get me intoxicated. That is why I just felt rapturous after reading Michael Inioluwa Oladele’s ‘REFUGEES’, a poem he submitted for publishing on...

WRITING TIPS

POETRY ANALYSIS: DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCUS TASTES?

Words Rhymes & RhythmJune 11, 2017August 3, 2020

In this classwork, you are to analyze the poem: ‘DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCUS TASTES?' by Kukogho Iruesiri Samson: a soft fart slowly set free gives smelly bliss a tear drop on...

WRITING TIPS

50 POEM TYPES EXPLAINED

Kukogho Iruesiri SamsonJune 11, 2017August 3, 2020

Many of us have been writing poems without actually knowing the names of particular forms and styles of poetry. Some have also found certain kinds of poems appealing but do...

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: BRIGITTE POIRSON POETRY CONTEST 2017 [JULY] ‘THE FORBIDDEN FRUIT’

BRIGITTE POIRSON POETRY CONTEST 2017: BENIN’S OSAHON WINS BPPC JUNE

POET OF THE WEEK: SHADE MARY-ANN OLAOYE

LET’S MAKE A CHAPEL by Yugo Gabriel Egboluche

THE WORLD IS A NUMBER by El Sane Ken Silencer

FOOLISH ME! by Dominic Ayegba Okoliko

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: BRIGITTE POIRSON POETRY CONTEST 2017 [JUNE] – ‘AS THE MUSE LEADS’

GOOD POETRY, AN ANALYSIS OF ‘REFUGEES’, BY MICHAEL INIOLUWA OLADELE

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