Category: <span>POETRY</span>

POETRY

#WhatCanWordsDo: ANGEL’S COO (for Maya Angelou)

Words Rhymes & RhythmJune 15, 2014July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_11297" align="aligncenter" width="431"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Angel's Coo][/caption]If we'll study war no more And leave not saliva prints Upon earth's rickety tits; If we'll tell truth beyond Colours of the skin...

POETRY

OLD SOLDIER NEVER DIES

Words Rhymes & RhythmJune 14, 2014July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_11281" align="aligncenter" width="317"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Old Soldier Never Dies][/caption]When I hear hopeless denizens Hooting like night owls Perched on frail branches Of smooth-bark Iroko trees Begging life's support From crevices...

POETRY

LAWS OF GOD & MAN

Words Rhymes & RhythmJune 14, 2014July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_11280" align="aligncenter" width="354"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Laws of God And Man][/caption]The stables of heaven are risen And hell plummets and sets low In its abyss lay fruits forbidden And my brother...

POETRY

FIREFLIES

Words Rhymes & RhythmJune 14, 2014July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_11279" align="aligncenter" width="352"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Fireflies][/caption]Tiny gleams of tender loving light All about the valley of my mind Singing the symphonies to unite The cords of sweet grace and peace...

POETRY

#BringBackOurGirls: THE UNHEARD VOICES OF CHIBOK GIRLS

Words Rhymes & RhythmJune 13, 2014July 22, 2017

[caption id="attachment_11268" align="aligncenter" width="326"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [The Unheard Voices Of Chibok Girls][/caption]We weep under the cloud of pain Unleashed by the merciless hands of our captors Who shall rescue us? Who...

POETRY

UNTITLED

Words Rhymes & RhythmJune 13, 2014July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_11269" align="aligncenter" width="315"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Untitled][/caption]Beauty drops of faltering rains, Searing soar of coursing pain. Dry and boneless fops on ties, Versing parochial bilateral lies. Paradoxical picaresque personality, Rousing rift...

POETRY

MAY 10

Words Rhymes & RhythmJune 13, 2014July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_11267" align="aligncenter" width="323"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [May 10][/caption]May I run faster than time? May I die before tomorrow comes? May I dream bigger than my pocket? May I wish that the...

POETRY

LAMENTATION

Words Rhymes & RhythmJune 12, 2014July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_11263" align="aligncenter" width="306"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Lamentations][/caption]Who are you? Two-faced scoundrel Whom do you know That you sent to work Are you really Boko Haram? The Educational Insurgent? Or a genocidal...

POETRY

NEW YAM FESTIVAL

Words Rhymes & RhythmJune 12, 2014July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_11260" align="aligncenter" width="320"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [New Yam Festival][/caption] O' ye town crier pick up your resonating gong and proclaim the arrival of a New Yam Festival Run to the village...

POETRY

THE LOVE AFFAIR

Okeme Jerome AkpevweJune 12, 2014August 21, 2017

[caption id="attachment_11257" align="aligncenter" width="335"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [The Love Affair][/caption]Together we stroll Along white plains daily With my fingers Gripping, firmly, her tiny waist My feelings She put in black and white...

Category: POETRY

#WhatCanWordsDo: ANGEL’S COO (for Maya Angelou)

OLD SOLDIER NEVER DIES

LAWS OF GOD & MAN

FIREFLIES

#BringBackOurGirls: THE UNHEARD VOICES OF CHIBOK GIRLS

UNTITLED

MAY 10

LAMENTATION

NEW YAM FESTIVAL

THE LOVE AFFAIR

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