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#BringBackOurGirls: LET GO OF THEM

Okeme Jerome AkpevweJune 7, 2014October 15, 2017

[caption id="attachment_11161" align="aligncenter" width="314"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Let Go Of Them][/caption]Sleep has been stolen from our eyes And our pillows are soaked with tears Shall we continue to live in fear? No!...

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#BringBackOurGirls: LETTER FROM HELL

Staff WriterJune 7, 2014July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_11171" align="aligncenter" width="298"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Letter From Hell][/caption]My heart burns as my urge To learn becomes Terror's urge Though we hope for the rain But let me write under this...

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#BringBackOurGirls: THE SONGS WE SING

Staff WriterJune 6, 2014July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_11162" align="aligncenter" width="283"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [The Songs We Sing][/caption]The songs we sing Are the broken chords From torn lips, Cracked wombs And feet bleeding from a march Upon the sharp...

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#BringBackOurGirls: FIND HER, BRING HER HOME

Staff WriterJune 4, 2014July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_11163" align="aligncenter" width="319"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Find Her, Bring Her Home][/caption]Imagine there's no greed A world where you want for me As much as you want for yourself No one will...

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HAREM OF PRETENDERS

Staff WriterMay 28, 2014July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_11071" align="aligncenter" width="342"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Harem of Pretenders][/caption]I flinch from our gullibility; Made vulnerable by our love for sentiments Who forced us down into This putrid water to swim? We,...

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STRUGGLING WITH THE PEN

Staff WriterMay 25, 2014July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_11039" align="aligncenter" width="359"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Struggling With The Pen][/caption]Vomit your silence Into a bucket full of tears Tears for sons Suns who presently absent Once shined the dreams of their...

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#BringBackOurGirls: MEET ME AT CHIBOK

Staff WriterMay 8, 2014July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_11027" align="aligncenter" width="403"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [#BringBackOurGirls: MEET ME AT CHIBOK][/caption]Meet me at Chibok Where dreams are interwovenly Braided by blood brats Seeking naked thighs Of unripe honey-combs Meet me there...

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#BringBackOurGirls: ELBOWS AND PHLEGM

Staff WriterMay 8, 2014July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_11006" align="aligncenter" width="351"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [#BringBackOurGirls ELBOWS AND PHLEGM][/caption]They grew sterile A hundred ways – warm fingers Too cold at the nape These nights that swayed. Mothers tore At festive...

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VIRGINS FOR SALE IN MAIDUGURI (#BringBackOurGirls)

Staff WriterMay 6, 2014July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_11001" align="aligncenter" width="418"] VIRGINS FOR SALE IN MAIDUGURI (#BringBackOurGirls)[/caption] At night thieves stole our pretty ones! Faceless cowards with spitting guns ... Government is looking, parents weeping Army is...

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BOKO ALARM

Staff WriterApril 1, 2014July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_10779" align="aligncenter" width="393"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Boko Alarm][/caption]A fight for no cause Blessing the masses with a curse Killing in the name of ‘god’ Tears and fears flow like a flood...

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#BringBackOurGirls: LET GO OF THEM

#BringBackOurGirls: LETTER FROM HELL

#BringBackOurGirls: THE SONGS WE SING

#BringBackOurGirls: FIND HER, BRING HER HOME

HAREM OF PRETENDERS

STRUGGLING WITH THE PEN

#BringBackOurGirls: MEET ME AT CHIBOK

#BringBackOurGirls: ELBOWS AND PHLEGM

VIRGINS FOR SALE IN MAIDUGURI (#BringBackOurGirls)

BOKO ALARM

CỌ́N-SCÌÒ MAGAZINE: ‘MIGRATION’ [ISSUE 3, VOL. 1 | DEC 2023]

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