Category: <span>POETRY</span>

POETRY

HER INFERTILE FIELD

Words Rhymes & RhythmJune 21, 2013July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_5890" align="aligncenter" width="346"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Her Infertile Field][/caption]In her age of flowering: She saw her petals glow Under blissful drizzle of rain She saw well, rainbow and rays Some day,...

POETRY

WHAT MAKES A POET ?

Words Rhymes & RhythmJune 20, 2013July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_5881" align="aligncenter" width="340"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [What Makes A Poet][/caption]Voices in the head create a handsome poet, a flood of tears makes up his lines, a flash of smiles gives rise...

POETRY

DRIED ROOTS

Words Rhymes & RhythmJune 20, 2013July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_5879" align="aligncenter" width="382"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Dried Roots][/caption]All seem to be intoxicated by modernization, making corruptions the order of the day. Were we colonised to forget the ways of our fathers,...

POETRY

I WANT YOU TO KNOW, MY FATHER

Words Rhymes & RhythmJune 20, 2013July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_5880" align="aligncenter" width="382"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [I Want You To Know, My Father][/caption]As a young child, you held my hand, a shield from life’s cruelties Yet you were quick to whack...

POETRY

IN THE MARKET SQUARE

Words Rhymes & RhythmJune 19, 2013July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_5873" align="aligncenter" width="302"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [In The Market Square][/caption]Lost in the wind her soul was bound. She wore a garment of rags, whispering to the clouds, tugging her dirty sacks,...

POETRY

GRAVESIDE HOMAGE (for Christopher Okigbo)

Words Rhymes & RhythmJune 19, 2013July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_5869" align="aligncenter" width="338"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Graveside Homage][/caption]Variegated streaks of a rainbow: Python and its dapples; Great Emperor of the Elysian field… The brass bell is dusted and oiled. The hibernating...

POETRY

A DIRGE FOR ‘WOMENS’ (a Triolet)

Words Rhymes & RhythmJune 19, 2013July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_5864" align="aligncenter" width="344"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [A Dirge For Womens][/caption]Come sing a dirge for all womens, Locked in the fists of half-man boys, Curled up with fear in homely dens! Come....

POETRY

THE PATRIOT

Words Rhymes & RhythmJune 18, 2013July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_5839" align="aligncenter" width="307"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [The Patriot][/caption]They won't be fishing in scanty pond, making it, “a do or die bond" if this greasy lands, was a mere mound. They are...

POETRY

I AM ONE

Words Rhymes & RhythmJune 18, 2013July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_5838" align="aligncenter" width="392"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [I Am One][/caption]Who says, I’m from the North? Could you please guide your uncovered mouth, Stinking like particle from blocked sewage. Maybe you’ve never seen...

POETRY

ABIOLA’S CRY

Words Rhymes & RhythmJune 18, 2013July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_5837" align="aligncenter" width="356"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Abiola's Cry][/caption]I know your faces, splashed by threads of light against the shadowy Walls of death! Those dark eyes staring at the spirit of a...

Category: POETRY

HER INFERTILE FIELD

WHAT MAKES A POET ?

DRIED ROOTS

I WANT YOU TO KNOW, MY FATHER

IN THE MARKET SQUARE

GRAVESIDE HOMAGE (for Christopher Okigbo)

A DIRGE FOR ‘WOMENS’ (a Triolet)

THE PATRIOT

I AM ONE

ABIOLA’S CRY

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