Category: <span>POETRY</span>

POETRY

HERE WE ARE!

Words Rhymes & RhythmFebruary 23, 2013July 16, 2017

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="396"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Here We Are][/caption]There are many crafty tongues Licking our collective sweet alone We are left to chew whitened bones Struggling with their snarling dogs They...

POETRY

BEYOND THE RAINBOW

Words Rhymes & RhythmFebruary 22, 2013July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_3831" align="aligncenter" width="406"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Beyond The Rainbow][/caption]There resides no gold But the wizard of Oz Conjuring altered egos Over the rainbow Where monarch butterflies, Skid on umbrellas of petals...

POETRY

WALLS OF PERDITION

Words Rhymes & RhythmFebruary 22, 2013July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_3842" align="aligncenter" width="392"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Walls Of Perdition][/caption]I dreamt a dream, in it my soul trekked. Wandering in the depths of wobbly skepticism Of these walls of perdition in subversive...

POETRY

THE AFTERMATH

Words Rhymes & RhythmFebruary 21, 2013July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_3838" align="aligncenter" width="392"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [The Aftermath][/caption] Let thunder hold her roar Like the muteness of a potter's field. The cry of the bugle that woke us to war Is...

POETRY

THE WORDS OF ARTS

Words Rhymes & RhythmFebruary 21, 2013July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_3840" align="aligncenter" width="392"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [The Word Of Arts][/caption]Written words heal the heart And calms the weary mind By Arts, we look through life, its path And thus, mysteries we...

POETRY

ADIEU

Words Rhymes & RhythmFebruary 21, 2013July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_3830" align="aligncenter" width="409"] www.facebook.com/ WRRPoetry [Adieu][/caption]Covenants are promises kept, not twisted or broken. Words are emotions birthed in the grave quiet of the heart. This day, words have betrayed...

POETRY

NIGERIA

Adedayo Adeyemi AgarauFebruary 20, 2013August 21, 2017

[caption id="attachment_3836" align="aligncenter" width="391"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Nigeria][/caption]Memoir of your evergreen existence Carved on the peak of your mountains By the hands of ancient ancestries In memory of your gleaming greatness Magnate...

POETRY

LAMENTATION

Words Rhymes & RhythmFebruary 20, 2013July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_3834" align="aligncenter" width="378"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Lamentation][/caption]This is my pain: What I get as gain For playing this game, Chasing after fame. My hunger I could not tame, My want I...

POETRY

VANQUISHED HEROES

Words Rhymes & RhythmFebruary 20, 2013July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_3841" align="aligncenter" width="436"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Vanquished Heroes][/caption]A tune was played near; One of loss, a sorrowful song. A chant was heard from afar; One of joy, a victory song. Two...

POETRY

OUR FATHERS

Words Rhymes & RhythmFebruary 19, 2013July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_3861" align="aligncenter" width="393"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Our Fathers][/caption]Our exalted fathers kissed the steel and made thousand crowns of chain upon their throttled necks from barns where their being beamed dim. Fetid...

Category: POETRY

HERE WE ARE!

BEYOND THE RAINBOW

WALLS OF PERDITION

THE AFTERMATH

THE WORDS OF ARTS

ADIEU

NIGERIA

LAMENTATION

VANQUISHED HEROES

OUR FATHERS

CỌ́N-SCÌÒ MAGAZINE: ‘BREATHE’ [ISSUE 5, VOL. 1 | JUN, 2025]

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