THE RULE
[caption id="attachment_6240" align="aligncenter" width="300"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [The Rule][/caption]The city council *Askari He carried me so harshly I was found chewing lightly I spat it out "Oh! Askari" Nairobi is not a...
I AM AFRICAN (a spoken word performance)
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqnFVaLNwEU&w=560&h=315] I am African. (But then again, I'm not) Born and raised in Nigeria, but there are still many things about the Motherland I don't understand. Am I still African...
WHY, NIGERIA
[caption id="attachment_6085" align="aligncenter" width="354"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Why, Nigeria][/caption]I moan in the darkness of the night, couched in my shed in extreme fright, picturing episodes of yesterday's plight, when the sticks were...
GHETTO MANSHION
[caption id="attachment_6076" align="aligncenter" width="357"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Ghetto Manshion][/caption]Walking through the streets and slums Beautifully dejected Highly populated I wept! I wept for souls dwelling in Untold hardship Children poorly bred begging...
EMANCIPATION
[caption id="attachment_6005" align="aligncenter" width="348"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Emancipation][/caption]Moment is still I see the beauty of a picture Called' "a vulture watching a Starving child Disgrace infiltrates my conscious As I see the...
NIGERIAN HIGHWAY SCENE
[caption id="attachment_5992" align="aligncenter" width="350"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Nigerian Highway Scene][/caption]It was a gathering of different thoughts The collusion of various minds “You need to follow the gospel” Is the voice of one...
DRIED ROOTS
[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,...
MOTHER IN THE SUN
[caption id="attachment_5708" align="aligncenter" width="344"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Mother In The Sun][/caption]I am the back That received those stripes From the cage for freedom: To you, I come, Africa! To you, I come,...
THE GODS ARE NOT WISE
[caption id="attachment_5675" align="aligncenter" width="337"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [The gods Are Not Wise][/caption]The gods are not wise: When men give the gods kola, They end up eating it themselves. None of the lobes...
ON FATE’S LONELY LANE
[caption id="attachment_5597" align="aligncenter" width="321"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [On Fate's Lonely Lane][/caption]I am the child the land defiled. In my limping heart is a blooming art. Laying my stooling pride in this torrent...