THIS DAWN
[caption id="attachment_2823" align="aligncenter" width="436"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [This Dawn][/caption]Slowly, the sun peeps into my closed eyes. I turn and try to ignore her pretty looks, place my head on the pillow as...
YOU NO FIT PLANT YAM GET PLANTAIN
[caption id="attachment_2824" align="aligncenter" width="419"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [You No Fit Plant Yam get Plantain][/caption]Baba God, tell me, na wetin I do? Why you no commot me for this palaver? I done pray,...
DON’T DO
[caption id="attachment_2821" align="aligncenter" width="440"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Don't Do][/caption]You need not save a girl Don’t rape a girl! You need not have a goal Don’t spoil a plan! You need not help...
BREAK OUT
[caption id="attachment_2802" align="aligncenter" width="416"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Break Out][/caption]Dare not forget To paint words in fine colors, Giving them names unimaginable. Close not your mind To the deep imaginations That birth pleasant...
I, YOU, THEM AND US (of a nation apart)
[caption id="attachment_2796" align="aligncenter" width="419"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [I, You, Them And Us][/caption]Is this right? What did they write; Stop or stomp? .. Here we are at the pump: You hand us leaky...
SECOND TO GOD
[caption id="attachment_2778" align="aligncenter" width="491"] www.facebook,com/WRRPoetry [Second To God][/caption]She gave me the best security For nine months of uncertainty And brought me up with purity Beautified me with her noble beauty...
SYMBOL OF HOPE
[caption id="attachment_2779" align="aligncenter" width="376"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Symbol Of Hope][/caption]Though I be An unpublished poem, Novel yet unwritten, Very much undefined, And word unspoken Still I am A symbol of hope! Though...
FOOLS OF THE HOUSE
[caption id="attachment_2777" align="aligncenter" width="436"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Fools Of The House][/caption]Your lips are red and cold My mouth is set and black As we watched the pyres Smoking out the life from...
OUR OWN CHRISTMAS
[caption id="attachment_2760" align="aligncenter" width="412"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Our Own Christmas][/caption]We had our own white Christmas When the hazy fog descended on a dusty dawn When the sky shone colorless before the sun...
THE PROPHECY
[caption id="attachment_2761" align="aligncenter" width="491"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [The Prophecy][/caption]Come, come heavenly kingdom. Down here, kingdom! The seed of salvation is dead on soil of no mercy And in this final lap, men...