MOTHER AFRICA by Okeme Jerome Akpevwe
How can I forget your love in a hurry? Your love firmer than the Ogbòmò With which you backed me when I was an Omòmò. You waited till my shaky...
THE CHILD IS A CLOTHE by Ayoola Olanrewaju
This regalia fades with time The search is a breath in a clothe A breathless clothe is a breed of nakedness And a shame that is ashamed. Edun is biting...
MAMA by Ayoola Olanrewaju
Mama Selfless has painted your life We caught you red handed in love And our lives has drowned in the blessing Your denials are our true existence. You despised fortune...
MOMMA by Obodokasi Adehtem Agbor
I like to run my fingers in your hair and lock it in braids, Braids of silver and coal, Youth and old, I like to make you an oasis of...
BEST MUM
If i can have another chance to, this world, come once again In your arms, i want to find myself under your tender loving care again If i can have...
MOTHER, MY LOVE, MY LIFE
[caption id="attachment_10345" align="aligncenter" width="364"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Mother, My Love, My Life][/caption]Mother, you are that is and always will be Words fail me to paint Mother I open my mouth, but only...
SON’S SONG SUNG
It's all so wrong Condemnation of the mind So I'm scribbling this letter To make it all better These words might sound sad Like goodbye forever But they‘re only meant...
SON’S SONG
[caption id="attachment_10821" align="aligncenter" width="333"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Son's Song Sung][/caption]It's all so wrong Condemnation of the mind So I'm scribbling this letter To make it all better These words might sound sad Like...
NNE-OMA
[caption id="attachment_10903" align="aligncenter" width="361"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Nne-Oma][/caption]She who saw hell in those nine months She who became friends with the doctors She who ate and drank for two She who heard...
TO YOU MOTHERS
[caption id="attachment_10902" align="aligncenter" width="356"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [To You Mothers][/caption]To you dripping breasts And nursing palms In whose thighs we sat For you, I prayed for And to you laboured souls Who...