Category: <span>POETRY</span>

POETRY

IN LAGOS HOURS

Words Rhymes & RhythmJanuary 4, 2013July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_2970" align="aligncenter" width="420"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [In Lagos Hours][/caption] Gray scalpel, gray slaughterers Comb sideways of melding cow blood and brine, seriatim, Stroke gold-yellow kerosene swells, possessive of the streets. Burdened...

POETRY

MEN IN BLACK

Words Rhymes & RhythmJanuary 4, 2013July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_2971" align="aligncenter" width="412"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Men In Black][/caption]“Park! Park! Park! Wey your particulars?” They bark. Bark! Bark! Harassing us, like a Rottweiler, They spring out from the dark, Pouncing on...

POETRY

THE POET AND HIS WORDS

Words Rhymes & RhythmJanuary 3, 2013July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_2961" align="aligncenter" width="270"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [The Poet And His Words][/caption]The poet and his poems! He is nothing, but cadaver wielding a deadly inky quill! His poems, no less than resilient...

POETRY

SLEEP

Words Rhymes & RhythmJanuary 3, 2013July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_2942" align="aligncenter" width="430"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Sleep][/caption]You that shut the eyelids of men, Noon, night and morning! Night comes calling and you throw all Into weariness, forcing your soft nipples Into...

POETRY

AN ANANIAS

Words Rhymes & RhythmJanuary 3, 2013July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_2941" align="aligncenter" width="436"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [An Ananias][/caption]Back again like a bad penny, ‘All that glitters is not gold’ might be despised by many but never grows old An Ananias upon...

POETRY

THE DAY IS COMING…

Words Rhymes & RhythmJanuary 3, 2013July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_2943" align="aligncenter" width="417"] www.facebook.com/Poetry [The Day Is Coming][/caption]Today I stand alone, of my people. I sense that others also see in full Yet cannot speak of what they see,...

POETRY

THE ANTHEM

Words Rhymes & RhythmJanuary 2, 2013July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_2923" align="aligncenter" width="398"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [The Anthem][/caption]The anthem reverberates in our head, That we are the leaders of tomorrow. So young and naive, like morons, We waited for the day...

POETRY

THE WAY FARER’S CREED

Words Rhymes & RhythmJanuary 2, 2013July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_2924" align="aligncenter" width="400"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Wayfarer's Creed][/caption]Over the seas and over the hills And to the springs where I will I shall wander for decades Lest my feet be...

POETRY

ADDICTION

Words Rhymes & RhythmJanuary 2, 2013July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_2922" align="aligncenter" width="407"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Addiction][/caption]Demonic flames kindle, Roar and rage beneath surface; These mortal tantalizers be Express chute to Lake's Inferno! The tongue of your soul Shrivels in parched...

POETRY

PLOUGH AWAY MY FRIEND

Words Rhymes & RhythmJanuary 1, 2013July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_2892" align="aligncenter" width="429"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Plough Away My Friend][/caption]Shift my friend, please give me space, Allow me, don’t mind my craze. Have I not climbed o’er the ridge? Am I...

Category: POETRY

IN LAGOS HOURS

MEN IN BLACK

THE POET AND HIS WORDS

SLEEP

AN ANANIAS

THE DAY IS COMING…

THE ANTHEM

THE WAY FARER’S CREED

ADDICTION

PLOUGH AWAY MY FRIEND

CỌ́N-SCÌÒ MAGAZINE: ‘CURRENT’ [ISSUE 6, VOL. 1 | JUNE, 2026]

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