Category: <span>POETRY</span>

POETRY

YOU ARE LIFE AND DEATH TO ME

Words Rhymes & RhythmApril 29, 2013July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_5063" align="aligncenter" width="373"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [You Are Life And Death To Me][/caption]In this blank world, no other love I see Nigeria, my dear, my own, You alone, none else, I...

POETRY

GETTING IT RIGHT

Words Rhymes & RhythmApril 29, 2013July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_5050" align="aligncenter" width="372"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Getting It Right][/caption]The police officer you see asleep on duty Dozes not because he is weak or tired It only depicts a weak and a...

POETRY

AND THEY STARVED

Words Rhymes & RhythmApril 29, 2013July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_5047" align="aligncenter" width="392"] 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

WHO IS HE?

Words Rhymes & RhythmApril 28, 2013July 16, 2017

Who is this Naza [caption id="attachment_5039" align="aligncenter" width="349"] www.facebook.com /WRRPoetry [Who Is He][/caption]Who is this Nazarene that agreed to take my pain? Who is this Son of David that took...

POETRY

DEAFENING VESPERS

Words Rhymes & RhythmApril 28, 2013July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_5025" align="aligncenter" width="363"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Deafening Vespers][/caption]Oh land... Your prophets smoke weed Then covet men's treasured field They, travesty of righteous men Multiply looters in righteous mien You traverse lands...

POETRY

YANKEE CRYPT

Words Rhymes & RhythmApril 28, 2013July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_5027" align="aligncenter" width="392"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Yankee Crypt][/caption]Where death watch beetles held sway Rot hung in the fetid air... Black robes ragged, purple haze a faded grey, Smell of death everywhere.....

POETRY

REVIVAL COMES

Words Rhymes & RhythmApril 28, 2013July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_5026" align="aligncenter" width="392"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Revival Comes][/caption]I seek not men's approval My yearning is God's go ahead I pine not for men's company My desire is to behold God. Mortal...

POETRY

RECOLLECTIONS OF THE FUTURE

Words Rhymes & RhythmApril 27, 2013July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_4956" align="aligncenter" width="378"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Recollections Of The Future][/caption]After many years… The ghostly presence of restive breeze rushed passed like students scrambling for shitbox space in a lecture room, under...

POETRY

THE UNSUNG HEROES

Words Rhymes & RhythmApril 27, 2013July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_4958" align="aligncenter" width="363"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [The Unsung Heroes][/caption]Like an offlight to a rhapsody The masses were shedding over subsidy Strangulating the necks of the needy A celebration of land mark...

POETRY

THE PASSION THAT BLEEDS

Words Rhymes & RhythmApril 27, 2013July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_5007" align="aligncenter" width="370"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Passion That Bleeds][/caption]Until you hear the Scotsman play the bagpipes in the early morning mist of the Scottish highlands, you have heard nothing. Until you...

Category: POETRY

YOU ARE LIFE AND DEATH TO ME

GETTING IT RIGHT

AND THEY STARVED

WHO IS HE?

DEAFENING VESPERS

YANKEE CRYPT

REVIVAL COMES

RECOLLECTIONS OF THE FUTURE

THE UNSUNG HEROES

THE PASSION THAT BLEEDS

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