Category: <span>POETRY</span>

POETRY

AYO MI: THE ONE THAT BRINGS ME JOY (by Chief Femi Fani-Kayode)

Words Rhymes & RhythmJuly 13, 2014July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_11634" align="aligncenter" width="309"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [AYO MI: THE ONE THAT BRINGS ME JOY][/caption] Ayo mi: the one that brings me joy. The one that gives me strength and offers me...

POETRY

SKIRT and BLOUSE

Words Rhymes & RhythmJuly 13, 2014July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_11574" align="aligncenter" width="317"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [SKIRT and BLOUSE][/caption]Skirt Your complexion indeed competes With a ripe pawpaw and it's true that it never fails To capture roaming gazes Blouse whose skin...

POETRY

GRACE

Words Rhymes & RhythmJuly 13, 2014July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_11575" align="aligncenter" width="339"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [GRACE][/caption]I go down the aisle of God’s place Dressed in my very best lace. I know it’s already late yet I walk at snail pace...

POETRY

FORGIVENESS

Words Rhymes & RhythmJuly 13, 2014July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_11576" align="aligncenter" width="348"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [FORGIVENESS][/caption]Would you keep at it for long? Make your heart as hard as a stone? Turn deaf ears to endless pleas? “Forgive us our trespasses...

POETRY

ODE TO EPUA

Words Rhymes & RhythmJuly 12, 2014July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_11577" align="aligncenter" width="474"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [ODE TO EPUA][/caption]Epua Love! Your strange name birds sings Just as it rings and echoes Everyone around me now knows That you hold what I...

POETRY

BLACK AND BLUE

Words Rhymes & RhythmJuly 12, 2014July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_11578" align="aligncenter" width="364"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [BLACK AND BLUE][/caption]First punch August visitor, never expected Oh baby I’m sorry he gushed There will be no more she thought Second punch He said...

POETRY

FRIEND-SHIP

Words Rhymes & RhythmJuly 12, 2014July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_11579" align="aligncenter" width="352"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [FRIEND-SHIP][/caption]At dawn you came From the wild wide fields of men To shrug off void memories And conceal tears of a lonely world From your...

POETRY

NOT AGAIN

Words Rhymes & RhythmJuly 11, 2014July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_11580" align="aligncenter" width="362"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [NOT AGAIN][/caption]not again! why delight in giving us pain? now it gets nearer next blast, who knows the area? like one whose neck is tied...

POETRY

HOPE LEFT US BEHIND

Words Rhymes & RhythmJuly 11, 2014July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_11581" align="aligncenter" width="300"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [HOPE LEFT US BEHIND][/caption]Hope left the shores of the Niger When in me I saw you as another In same soil our fathers' blood had...

POETRY Uncategorized

THE FULL STOP

Words Rhymes & RhythmJuly 11, 2014October 15, 2017

[caption id="attachment_11582" align="aligncenter" width="308"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [THE FULL STOP][/caption]Life is a sentence punctuated within; It ends. With Death's sudden full stop The soul that 'is' becomes 'has been'. Life is a...

Category: POETRY

AYO MI: THE ONE THAT BRINGS ME JOY (by Chief Femi Fani-Kayode)

SKIRT and BLOUSE

GRACE

FORGIVENESS

ODE TO EPUA

BLACK AND BLUE

FRIEND-SHIP

NOT AGAIN

HOPE LEFT US BEHIND

THE FULL STOP

CỌ́N-SCÌÒ MAGAZINE: ‘CURRENT’ [ISSUE 6, VOL. 1 | JUNE, 2026]

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