Category: <span>POETRY</span>

POETRY

TO YOU MOTHERS

Words Rhymes & RhythmApril 12, 2014July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_10902" align="aligncenter" width="356"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [To You Mothers][/caption]To you dripping breasts And nursing palms In whose thighs we sat For you, I prayed for And to you laboured souls Who...

POETRY

IS THIS MY DESTINY?

Words Rhymes & RhythmApril 11, 2014July 22, 2017

[caption id="attachment_10904" align="aligncenter" width="366"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Is This My Destiny?][/caption]Must I in this generation and day be born? Must these people my parents and family be? Must I be of this...

POETRY

MY TIME WILL COME

Words Rhymes & RhythmApril 11, 2014July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_10905" align="aligncenter" width="365"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [My Time Will Come][/caption]The bright lights The cameras flashing The mic in front of me Me dressed in fancy fashion The stage couldn't be bigger...

POETRY

SHATTERED

Words Rhymes & RhythmApril 11, 2014July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_10906" align="aligncenter" width="339"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Shattered][/caption]The pearl has fallen; the glory is shattered Destiny ended; rolled over like a scroll and it never mattered I felt the plunge before seeing...

POETRY Uncategorized

AND THEY STARVED

Words Rhymes & RhythmApril 10, 2014October 15, 2017

[caption id="attachment_10907" align="aligncenter" width="332"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [And They Starved][/caption]There was famine in the land; And the earth thirsted for rain Till her lush hair grayed and fell At the teasing of...

POETRY

FOR HIM

Okeme Jerome AkpevweApril 10, 2014August 21, 2017

[caption id="attachment_10908" align="aligncenter" width="359"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [For Him][/caption]For him who came into this wicked world first To greet the people and to breathe the air with dust His cry was loud...

POETRY

I’M SORRY

Words Rhymes & RhythmApril 9, 2014July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_10890" align="aligncenter" width="362"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [I'm Sorry][/caption]I’m down on my knees begging you My eyes were closed, I couldn’t see you I never knew your love for me was true...

POETRY

SIN

Words Rhymes & RhythmApril 9, 2014July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_10888" align="aligncenter" width="327"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Sin][/caption]as so ‘dime’ it might be; a splotch on the existence of humanity as bile, when dropped on other part taints it Sin, just like...

POETRY

THE SINS OF MY FATHER

Words Rhymes & RhythmApril 9, 2014July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_10889" align="aligncenter" width="335"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [The Sins Of My Father][/caption]My father, he left calabash and cowries For enamels and pounds Later forlet clay, rafter works And turned to the seas...

POETRY

(H)EART(H) OF DARKNESS

Words Rhymes & RhythmApril 8, 2014July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_10875" align="aligncenter" width="310"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Hearth Of Darkness][/caption]What a wonderful world! A beautiful composite of opposites: Behold nature in her beauty And man in his foolery Ravaging everywhere like a...

Category: POETRY

TO YOU MOTHERS

IS THIS MY DESTINY?

MY TIME WILL COME

SHATTERED

AND THEY STARVED

FOR HIM

I’M SORRY

SIN

THE SINS OF MY FATHER

(H)EART(H) OF DARKNESS

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