DRIED ROOTS

[caption id="attachment_5879" align="aligncenter" width="382"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Dried Roots][/caption]All seem to be intoxicated by modernization, making corruptions the order of the day. Were we colonised to forget the ways of our fathers,...

IBADAN MAN

[caption id="attachment_5590" align="aligncenter" width="344"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Ibadan Man][/caption]This town makes him, the people make him, his attitude, his real inheritance. Identity all over him, tribal marks all over him that’s his...

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...

NNEWI

[caption id="attachment_5274" align="aligncenter" width="335"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Nnewi][/caption]And so my bags were packed, I just wanted to escape, To the most beautiful place on earth, The town with a breath-taking landscape, I...

BABATUNDE

[caption id="attachment_5181" align="aligncenter" width="370"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Babatunde][/caption]The end of day Is the birth of dawn: fresh hope, Heralded by yowling. This effusion of grief – superimposed by Tinny voicing, a cry:...

MISSUS

[caption id="attachment_4838" align="aligncenter" width="364"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Missus][/caption]Wrap those watermelons! They're not negatives Of a camera film Those swollen melons - Let's call them red apples - Are just for hands that...