COLOUR

[caption id="attachment_9976" align="aligncenter" width="363"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Colour][/caption]You don’t want to be dark Why should you look like coal Not yellow like ripe Pawpaw? Indeed, you are Arewa obinrin Your monthly feeding...

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...

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...

BLACKNESS

[caption id="attachment_5049" align="aligncenter" width="359"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Blackness][/caption]Fair enough that you go to church And that you speak so saintly You still wear this skin And it is not white. It is...
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