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HOLY MESSENGER

Staff WriterJuly 6, 2014July 22, 2017

[caption id="attachment_11483" align="aligncenter" width="316"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [HOLY MESSENGER][/caption]Truth in the mouth of a liar Becomes dumb But your ears shall not feign Ignorance when I call Akufecha has eaten much cock-heads...

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AFRICANAH

Staff WriterJune 30, 2014July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_11468" align="aligncenter" width="294"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Africanah][/caption]When I was born It should have been in Eurasia, way into the belly of China To see It's walls that I hear stretches as...

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WAKE UP, SLEEPING GIANT

Staff WriterJune 11, 2014July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_11249" align="aligncenter" width="317"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Wake Up, Sleeping Giant][/caption]Oh, the giant that once shook the earth Now less than a suckling infant worth The giant at whose presence lions fled...

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THE MYSTIC MESSAGE (ÁROKÓ )

Staff WriterMay 30, 2014July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_11067" align="aligncenter" width="361"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [The Mystic Message][/caption]We are in grave danger Of losing our future to political interlopers Let's find a lasting solution To the drum of trauma We...

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TRAGEDY OF FAITH

Staff WriterMay 27, 2014July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_11076" align="aligncenter" width="344"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Tragedy Of Faith][/caption]Anticipating village ears Groping the whistling easterly winds Tracking approaching sounds, each steers T'catch high priest's obscure rattling steps One, two, here he...

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A PETITION TO THE GODS

Staff WriterMay 27, 2014July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_11078" align="aligncenter" width="354"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [A Petition To The gods][/caption]Amadioha! He who speaks through thunder and strikes with lightning! Have you lost your axe? Why do you seem lax? Seeds...

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BRIDE PRICE by Oku-ola Abiola Paul

Oku-ola Abiola PaulMarch 28, 2014August 28, 2017

[caption id="attachment_10725" align="aligncenter" width="368"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Bride Price][/caption]25 litres of palm wine; two 10 rolls of Ankara, red and blue 50 tubers of yam One spotless ram ...Is your daughter for...

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THERE WAS A WORD CALLED TABOO

Staff WriterMarch 4, 2014July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_10359" align="aligncenter" width="385"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [There Was A Word Called Taboo][/caption]There was a word called “Taboo” Name of felonies, of spitables, Of dark deeds and mucks. There was a word...

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I RETCHED

Staff WriterMarch 1, 2014July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_10259" align="aligncenter" width="391"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [I Retched][/caption]Let me tell you the repulsive story of the vomit I disgorged yesterday. Yesterday my student-- little miss Sadat-- missed from class And days...

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ABIKU

Adedayo Adeyemi AgarauFebruary 26, 2014August 21, 2017

[caption id="attachment_10268" align="aligncenter" width="388"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Abiku][/caption]Announce to the market of familiar strangers O'birth crier! Inform them in the city of the under-sun Chalk the name of our visitor on the...

Tag: africa

HOLY MESSENGER

AFRICANAH

WAKE UP, SLEEPING GIANT

THE MYSTIC MESSAGE (ÁROKÓ )

TRAGEDY OF FAITH

A PETITION TO THE GODS

BRIDE PRICE by Oku-ola Abiola Paul

THERE WAS A WORD CALLED TABOO

I RETCHED

ABIKU

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