WHO WILL RESCUE US: Okeme Jerome Akpevwe
Who will find the key to this cage of ours? Or are we going to be prisoners for life? For our wings have gone numb. We know not if those...
FREEDOM: by Adedayo Adeyemi Agarau
I see our future in chains; We only strive in vain Shall we be free of these pathetic breed? Do they know ours pains? That we only seek freedom? We...
OLD SOLDIER NEVER DIES
[caption id="attachment_11281" align="aligncenter" width="317"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Old Soldier Never Dies][/caption]When I hear hopeless denizens Hooting like night owls Perched on frail branches Of smooth-bark Iroko trees Begging life's support From crevices...
FREEDOM FOR ONE
[caption id="attachment_11158" align="aligncenter" width="316"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Freedom For One][/caption]Freedom for one! Now what again? They cry for freedom Freedom from your oppression Freedom from your slavery and dictatorship They fight for...
UNTITLED
[caption id="attachment_5753" align="aligncenter" width="382"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Untitled][/caption]Where we were once bound... When love we claimed to have found. What then is this heavy shackle? We used to drink from heaven's pond!...
HOMELESS TONGUE
[caption id="attachment_5268" align="aligncenter" width="362"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Homeless Tongue][/caption]Your face, lit like a furnace, burns with extreme covetousnessThe tongue in your mouth hungers for habitationIt has flowed out of its floppy residenceIn...
MEN ARE DISSING
[caption id="attachment_4837" align="aligncenter" width="392"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Men Are Dissing][/caption]God is always blessing While men are dissing Now the land is boiling Men are still spoiling Men, others are blaming Blames on...
SHACKLES
[caption id="attachment_4720" align="aligncenter" width="372"] www,facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Shackles][/caption]If you were still in shackles Of the old era of slavery With whips and rods Drawing map, leading more into slavery On your brutalized,...
A SLAVE’S REVOLT
[caption id="attachment_4184" align="aligncenter" width="386"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [A Slave's Revolt][/caption]Our hands are sore and rigid, Blistered, ridged like a farmland. Our feet are sore and frigid; Rock-hard like the hide of a...
ARE WE LIBERATED
[caption id="attachment_4185" align="aligncenter" width="417"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Are We Liberated?][/caption]The rulers’ hearts lack humanity Forecasting the future, they tell stories That leave us hoping for better days But the promises fail and...