Tag: <span>Blank Verse</span>

POETRY

OKONKO

Words Rhymes & RhythmJanuary 10, 2013July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_3095" align="aligncenter" width="436"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Okonko][/caption]At the market place, And the fireside, under, The Udara tree, I have seen them mock you, And worship your death. You, *Okonko, Public shamer,...

POETRY

SPURTING SPREE

Words Rhymes & RhythmJanuary 9, 2013July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_3080" align="aligncenter" width="365"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Spurting Spree][/caption]A blood-filled surge prompts a spew, but odd timings saw all down her fleshy drain and I resumed with banged efforts and permutations and...

POETRY

EMERE (Daughter of the spiritual realm by Bada Yusuf Amoo)

Words Rhymes & RhythmJanuary 9, 2013July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_3079" align="aligncenter" width="395"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Emere][/caption]See her glow like a yellow moon See beauty dinning on her flawless skin Her straight legs caress the earth gently. See, her pointed nose,...

POETRY

BEYOND THE CLOUD

Alozor Michael IkechukwuJanuary 9, 2013August 21, 2017

[caption id="attachment_3078" align="aligncenter" width="403"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Beyond The Cloud][/caption]When the clouds appear so calm, Glaring golden like glazing metal, The world sees much less than nothing, Understanding far less than the...

POETRY

LETTER TO MY MOTHERLAND

Words Rhymes & RhythmJanuary 8, 2013July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_3066" align="aligncenter" width="392"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Letter To My Motherland][/caption]Wake up my motherland! Your doze has turned into deep asleep On this bed of self-slavery! Now you snore, dreaming within a...

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I HAVE A DREAM

Words Rhymes & RhythmJanuary 7, 2013July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_3033" align="aligncenter" width="392"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [I Have Dream][/caption]Keep holding unto hope, Though it seems all is lost. Hopelessness is neither bought nor sold, Neither is hope. I had no shoes,...

POETRY

ALONE IN A CROWDED WORLD

Words Rhymes & RhythmJanuary 7, 2013July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_3038" align="aligncenter" width="397"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Alone In A Crowded World][/caption]A moan in million's hush A groan in silent shush A loan shrouded in fraud ...Alone in a crowded world! Living...

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ON AFRICA

Words Rhymes & RhythmJanuary 5, 2013July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_2996" align="aligncenter" width="434"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [On Africa][/caption]Mother Africa: Lynx deodorant, Star Wars set, Safari park, Quarter-finalist football team. Mother Africa: Boeing-avoiding Famine, flood, AIDS-infested Black pit on the face of...

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MY SHOE

Words Rhymes & RhythmJanuary 5, 2013July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_2995" align="aligncenter" width="436"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [My Shoe][/caption]Too large for the world, fits yet my feet The way my toe strays, pauses and stays, As stagnant as lazy water in unthirsty...

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...

Tag: Blank Verse

OKONKO

SPURTING SPREE

EMERE (Daughter of the spiritual realm by Bada Yusuf Amoo)

BEYOND THE CLOUD

LETTER TO MY MOTHERLAND

I HAVE A DREAM

ALONE IN A CROWDED WORLD

ON AFRICA

MY SHOE

IN LAGOS HOURS

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