Tag: <span>Hope</span>

POETRY

SUBTLE ECHOES

Words Rhymes & RhythmApril 3, 2014July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_10818" align="aligncenter" width="346"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Subtle Echoes][/caption]Bleeding ink blinds rulers Skilled beggars beg Chess game in the midst Of blind spectators! Oh! Heaven comedown And visit our motherland Shattered destinies...

POETRY

ABIKU

Words Rhymes & RhythmApril 2, 2014July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_10775" align="aligncenter" width="390"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Abiku][/caption]Luminous belle of recreation – She lifted our darkness-haunted lives Salvaged our Africa from dooming claws Of invisible, retrogressive powers Holy powers emanating from...

POETRY

PATCHED UMBRELLA, SCATTERED BROOM

Words Rhymes & RhythmApril 2, 2014July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_10777" align="aligncenter" width="401"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Patched Umbrella, Scattered Broom][/caption]Watching these people Laying the future On a keg of kerosene This is a trip I walk with fear When the rain...

POETRY

LIBERTY

Words Rhymes & RhythmApril 1, 2014July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_10780" align="aligncenter" width="394"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Liberty][/caption]Forget not your liberty when you’re helpless Like the god that lacks power for his revenge Let courage cover you like the shell covers yolk...

POETRY

SHADOWS AND ECHOES

Words Rhymes & RhythmMarch 31, 2014July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_10781" align="aligncenter" width="349"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Shadows And Echoes][/caption]Shadows and echoes Echoes and shadows Wind through keyholes And sounds, I know not Dark pressed against light And deep is not so...

POETRY

ANNOUNCING HER COMING

Okeme Jerome AkpevweMarch 29, 2014August 21, 2017

[caption id="attachment_10722" align="aligncenter" width="378"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Announcing Her Coming][/caption] (more…)

POETRY

HER WEALTH, HONOUR, AND PRIDE

Words Rhymes & RhythmMarch 28, 2014July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_10723" align="aligncenter" width="355"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Her Wealth, Honour And Pride][/caption] (more…)

POETRY

NIGERIA

Words Rhymes & RhythmMarch 25, 2014July 22, 2017

[caption id="attachment_10692" align="aligncenter" width="433"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Nigeria][/caption]I saw Nigeria from a new light not the beautiful black woman with wonderful Earthen features that lured the snow folks into her green haven...

POETRY

I KNOW A BETTER SLUM

Words Rhymes & RhythmMarch 25, 2014July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_10693" align="aligncenter" width="408"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [I Know A Better Slum][/caption]The cosmos is a slum Its inhabitants refine it Despite the raging storm Homo sapiens recreate it But I know a...

POETRY

THE FORGOTTEN

Words Rhymes & RhythmMarch 25, 2014July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_10694" align="aligncenter" width="341"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [The Forgotten][/caption]Vultures are circling ominously In the sky above my homeland, Drawn by a curse under the earth And the smell of death. These days,...

Tag: Hope

SUBTLE ECHOES

ABIKU

PATCHED UMBRELLA, SCATTERED BROOM

LIBERTY

SHADOWS AND ECHOES

ANNOUNCING HER COMING

HER WEALTH, HONOUR, AND PRIDE

NIGERIA

I KNOW A BETTER SLUM

THE FORGOTTEN

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