IF BLACK… by by Lebile Melt Tosin
if the black doesn't forgive there would be war forever if we don’t forget blood would paste our road if the black don't believe to build faith admits molestation if...
IN THOSE DAYS by Micheal Jacob
In those days when our fathers carried woods on bicycles When under the mango tress serves as relaxation centres Palm wine as red wine, cola nuts serve as chocolates Cleaning...
DARK AND SHINES by Goodness Ayoola
Again I am lost in a fleet of fragments Floating beneath my throat, inflammable I lie barely at the mercy of the poetic ballpoint My convulsing fingers seek solace in...
WE TOOK IN
[caption id="attachment_9245" align="aligncenter" width="361"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [We Took In][/caption]In days gone, I was told None was black, none was white None was Franco, none was Anglo None chewed arrogance, none failed...
BLACK CHILD
[caption id="attachment_9177" align="aligncenter" width="422"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Black Child][/caption]O child of endless potentials farther than the horizon Let the iron-cap covering you thoughts fly away like a hopeless hawk Into the lifeless...
ROUGH DIAMOND
[caption id="attachment_7023" align="aligncenter" width="414"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Rough Diamond][/caption]Charcoal! I hear them call me. But unlike the coal, I’ve got beauty within. Black, that’s just the color of my skin. Cut me...
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,...
I FEEL NO SHAME
[caption id="attachment_5589" align="aligncenter" width="344"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [I Feel No Shame][/caption]Why have you shut your eyes against your old culture? Does my iro and buba not do me well than your ‘mini-gown’?...
DARK GIRLS
[caption id="attachment_5495" align="aligncenter" width="382"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Dark Girls][/caption]Bureaucracy of greedy county men Slaves of power Freedom of pain Shameful dark girls Resent the power of their language Discriminate the choices of...
BUILDERS OF THE WORLD
[caption id="attachment_5411" align="aligncenter" width="356"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Builders Of The World][/caption]For the world, unwillingly Africa toiled, not sparingly Like locusts in a leafy field Africans worked without sunshield The nations of progress...