Another 12-Year old has just been laid to rest with his mother wailings as the day before yesterday, he laid on her chest,
Tag: Death
MAMA TEARS (a poem by Adigun Temitope Idealism & and Odey Goodness Ogeyi)
what else shall we give to this world, if not the bowl of tears that watered our children’s graveyard?
PLATEAU BLEEDS by Victor Igiri
Throw JOS some black lit candles. Again we write more chapters in our ‘book of bloods’ with the narratives, an heritage for distant tongues to tell whose skins are unpeeled by cowry demons, but bruised as Benue, Taraba, Nasarawa, Adamawa, Kaduna, Zamfara,… and more to come. I hear that there is no justice in the… Continue reading PLATEAU BLEEDS by Victor Igiri
AS I LAY DYING by Thaalith Abubakar Gimba
As parts of my body wither, My bones are eager to desiccate. My eyes rove hither and thither, As though I felt the urge to defecate. I heard death grants solace. Verily, my vices need grace. I believe my end is near, For I to meet my merciful maker. And atone for the sins I… Continue reading AS I LAY DYING by Thaalith Abubakar Gimba
DIARY OF A SOLDIER AT WAR by Kujembola Oluwaseun
Yesterday, we remembered the victors and conquerors; Today, we remember the vanquished and conquered. Yesterday, we danced in the rain; Today, we embrace the cold. Yesterday, our echoes were of happiness of victory savored. Yesterday, we rent the air with fists of godly mortals. Only yesterday, smiles devoured faces despite pain. Yesterday, we forgot our… Continue reading DIARY OF A SOLDIER AT WAR by Kujembola Oluwaseun
MARAUDERS by Christopher Labesa
…there is sadness in the face of the moon. Boom boom! Marauders at the door. Boom boom! Gory chunks on the floor. Marauders; those marauders;disgruntled fragments of the Sahara storms; with blood as token toast,broke into our dozing homes, transcending into our deepest dreams;their sword of enemy deep; like thorny rain in soundless nightmare, their… Continue reading MARAUDERS by Christopher Labesa
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: BRIGITTE POIRSON POETRY CONTEST 2017 [SEPTEMBER] ‘WHAT LIES BEYOND THE SILENT NIGHT’
Words Rhymes & Rhythm (WRR) is now receiving entries for the September edition of the BRIGITTE POIRSON POETRY CONTEST (BPPC) SEASON III, 2017. Poets from Nigeria, Africa and all over the world are hereby invited to submit their poems on the theme: WHAT LIES BEYOND THE SILENT NIGHT. The theme for this month’s edition of… Continue reading CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: BRIGITTE POIRSON POETRY CONTEST 2017 [SEPTEMBER] ‘WHAT LIES BEYOND THE SILENT NIGHT’
THE WORLD IS A NUMBER by El Sane Ken Silencer
The world is a number to me, I see nothing in the ground except sand, when i look up, I see only the cloud- The sky… When the young die they ask ‘how old is he? married or single?’ when the old too same query to you ‘what did he achieve?’ The world is a… Continue reading THE WORLD IS A NUMBER by El Sane Ken Silencer
RETURN OF THE HADES by Gideon Abowha
Blood in the eyes Brawny men occupying all sides Children cries Mothers being whipped Adversity made his way amidst Travails travelled down A lonely dark world Full of pains Where I called “The land of the dead” The hades. Hades A no mans land Where ghost consist Like an halloween Where all seems terribly darkened.… Continue reading RETURN OF THE HADES by Gideon Abowha
THE DEAD WE HOLD IN MEMORY by Dominic Ayegba Okoliko
The dead we hold in memory As today tells their story Our hearts and minds hear it again Reliving them in prayerful pain Under the shadow of earth’s drear Our mourn’ shows forth care The dead we hold in memory As today tells their story They once shared our lives With colours of love and… Continue reading THE DEAD WE HOLD IN MEMORY by Dominic Ayegba Okoliko